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The opposition Democratic party has vowed to carry out a country wide ant-aging campaign that is aimed at stopping the lifting of the presidential age limit that was set at the age of 75 as per the constitution of Uganda, on Thursday they will be moving to Bweyogerere over a similar campaign and later proceed to Jinja where they will address a rally Speaking to journalists at party headquarters on City House in Kampala, the acting secretary general Gerald Siranda said Article 102(b) is the only bullet in chamber that we are meant utilize to end Museveni’s monarchism and attain…
The wife of the former head of South Sudan’s army says her husband has been under house arrest for months on the direct orders of President Salva Kiir. In an exclusive interview Monday, Lucy Ayak Malong, the wife of Paul Malong Awan, told VOA’s South Sudan in Focus that her husband has not been allowed to leave Juba since May, when the president fired him. Health concerns Malong’s health has deteriorated steadily since she last saw him in the capital two months ago, according to Ayak, who is living in Nairobi, Kenya. She refused to disclose her husband’s medical history,…
Congolese security forces killed at least 14 members of separatist group Bundu dia Kongo (BDK) on Monday during clashes in the capital Kinshasa and southwestern city of Matadi, police said. The clashes followed an attack by BDK members on Kinshasa’s main prison and demonstrations by other members against Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) President Joseph Kabila in Kinshasa, Matadi and the southwestern city of Boma, witnesses and security sources said. A series of large-scale prison breaks across the DRC in the past few months has aggravated widespread insecurity since Kabila refused to step down from power after his mandate expired in December.…
Presidential advisor on Media affairs Tamale Mirundi has described Ugandans as confused people. Speaking while appearing on NBS Television on Tuesday Morning, Tamale that confusion of Ugandans who are don’t work hard but only waste time discussing politics has helped even small states like Rwanda surpass them. “Rwanda took advantage of the confusion in Uganda to develop. Those people are easily mobilized, they are patriotic regardless of the political differences. You can’t hear people in Rwanda talk useless politics when it’s not time for elections” Tamale said. Tamale also added that Ugandans don’t know what to like and hate, that’s…
The East African Legislative Assembly (EALA) MP Hon Fred Mukasa Mbidde has decried the way government institutions are functioning in the current National resistance movement regime. Speaking while appearing on NBS Television early this morning, the Democratic party National Vice Chairman added that most of the institutions like police, army, Judiciary and other arms of government are crippled but only being used as instruments of consolidating power. “The death of institutions doesn’t mean they don’t exist; they exist but they are being used as instruments.” Mbidde said. Mbidde added that one can’t run a country like a shop citing that…
South African MPs will vote in secret on a motion of no-confidence in President Jacob Zuma on Tuesday, the parliament’s speaker has announced. Baleka Mbete made the ruling after opposition parties took the case to the Constitutional Court. They believe that in a secret ballot, MPs from the governing African National Congress (ANC) would be more likely to vote against the president. Mr Zuma has survived several previous votes of no-confidence. The ANC has governed South Africa since the end of white-minority rule in 1994, and has a huge majority in parliament. Ms Mbete’s decision took many by surprise and…
North Korea on Monday warned it would give the US a “severe lesson” with its strategic nuclear force if it takes military action against it, Pyongyang said in a statement to a regional meeting on Monday. Reacting angrily to the new sanctions passed by the UN Security Council on Saturday, it said it will not put its nuclear programme or its missiles on the negotiating table. In a transcript of a statement by Foreign Minister Ri Yong-ho, which was distributed to media in Manila, Pyongyang called the new UN sanctions “fabricated” and warned there would be “strong follow-up measures” and acts of justice.…
The Ministry of Education and Sports and the Higher Education Students’ Financing Board, has extended the application for the students Loan Scheme for the academic year 2017/18. According to the minister JC. Muyingo this has come as a result of delays associated with students’ admissions procedures in both the Public Universities and the Other Tertiary Institutions. The call for Students’ Loan Applications was first made in May this year and set a deadline for 4th August 2017 however it has been extended with the aim at increasing access to Higher Education among the needy Ugandans. The process has been pushed…
The Ministry of Health has revealed the emergence of an active outbreak of Measles in Kampala and Wakiso Districts. According to surveillance and case finding reports, a total of 67 cases have so far been identified and of these, seven have been confirmed by laboratory tests within the month of July. The most affected age group are children under 1 year. All the five divisions of Kampala, as well as several suburbs in Wakiso District are affected. Measles is an airborne disease that affects mainly children aged between six months and 10 years of age although it can also affect…
A grandmother and two other persons have been arrested in Butaleja district for alleged child trafficking of a 6-year-old boy. According to police, Sairuna Nabaje, a resident of Nabiganda village in Kachonga sub-county, approached Christopher Kawu and Musa Wanande, both residents of Butaleja town council and attempted to sell her 6-year-old grandson, saying she did not have money to look after him. Bukedi regional police spokesperson, Sowali Kamulya says the trio has been arrested for child trafficking. According to Kamulya, the grandmother Nabaje approached Kawu and Wanande looking for someone to buy the six-year-old boy. Nabaje reportedly claimed that the…