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Uganda Watch (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
The President of South Sudan, Salva Kiir, has finally returned home several hours after the plane he was traveling in narrowly escaped a crash. Salva Kiir, Wednesday morning survived a plane crash, as he was returning home to Sudan from Uganda, after one of the tyres of the plane in which he was travelling burst. Report from Sudan Tribune , Wednesday, November 25, 2009 12:51: Sudan 1st VP safe after...
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Morton's Musings (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
Amazing how different the Commonwealth states are. Of course, homosexual conduct was illegal in Canada until Trudeau's revisions of the Criminal Code in the late 1960's. So it's not that long ago Canada was onside with Uganda's pending legal bigotry. Uganda's anti-gay bill causes Commonwealth uproar Proposed law that would impose life imprisonment on homosexuals has the potential to divide leaders...
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
The death of Maj. Gen. James Kazini reveals the major institutional weakness in Uganda. Kazini died like a petty thief allegedly bludgeoned to death by a "malaya." This is not an isolated incident. As President Yoweri Museveni said at the funeral, the best of NRA/UPDF commanders have died - not at the hands of enemy bullets - but as a result of irresponsible personal conduct; in brothels,...
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
Sometime in August, operatives attached to the Chieftaincy of Military Intelligence (CMI) arrested one of Uganda's biggest fraudsters ever. The 21-year-old Michael Mugarura had for over three years been impersonating President Yoweri Museveni by imitating his voice. He would use a 'caller ID withheld' number to call government officials and parastatal heads and, in his 'Museveni voice', instruct them...
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 16 hours ago
PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni and Southern Sudan president Salva Kiir yesterday inspected the disputed Uganda-Sudan border area and called for calm.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni is for the first time scheduled to visit Somalia's restive capital Mogadishu where he is expected to hold talks with his Somali counterpart and inspect the peacekeeping operation of African Union troops.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday
President Yoweri Museveni wants stringent laws to deal with government officials who embezzle public funds.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday
PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni has said he is not bothered by the rapid population growth.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday
African societies lag behind due to the absence of the bourgeois or skilled middle class, President Yoweri Museveni remarked on Saturday evening.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni has said the immigrant herdsmen in Bulisa district in Bunyoro sub-region have agreed to be relocated.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Leaders of Mawokota North in Mpigi district have asked the principal private secretary (PPS) of President Yoweri Museveni to stand for Parliament in 2011.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Over the last twenty years, President Yoweri Museveni has baffled observers with his relations with the Ugandan media. He has simultaneously been the strongest promoter of press freedom and its biggest threat. He has jailed and prosecuted as many journalists as he has dined with.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
ALL districts, municipalities and town councils will soon have their own road construction equipment, President Yoweri Museveni has disclosed.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni told cultural leaders on Wednesday that a Bill that will regulate relations between them and the central government has been approved by cabinet.
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Uganda Watch (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
The law includes a clause that not only bars kings and chiefs from engaging in politics but also prohibits politicians from riding on kingdoms. The kings and chiefs under the Forum for Kings and Cultural Leaders pledged loyalty to the sovereign state of Uganda and work as peers. They asked the Government to increase payment to the traditional leaders, fund their activities, give them budgetary allocations...