Author: Johnson Thembo
President Yoweri Museveni and his Kenya counterpart, Uhuru Kenyatta, yesterday 12/9/2019 signed a joint Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to strengthen cross-border cooperation between Kenya and Uganda. The two leaders also witnessed the signing of a joint Memorandum of Understanding between the two governments to ensure cross-border programme for sustainable peace and socio-economic transformation among the pastoralist communities of the Karimojong of Uganda the Turkana and West Pokot of Kenya. Uganda’s Minister for Karamoja Affairs, John Byabagambi and Kenya’s Cabinet Secretary for Devolution, Eugene Wamalwa signed for their respective governments. The ceremonies took place today at Naitakwae Grounds near Moroto Municipality…
Military personnel guarding various security installations have blocked legislators from accessing and inspecting ‘safe houses’, a generic term for alleged torture chambers run by the Internal Security Organisation (ISO). The MPs on the Committee on Human Rights were denied access to safe houses in Kyengera, Nalukolongo and Nakasero. In the morning of Tuesday, September 10, 2019, MPs on the Committee set off to carry out an oversight visit to various safe houses, after failing to generate consensus with Security Minister Gen Elly Tumwine, who is opposed to the visits. Last week, MPs told the Deputy Speaker, Jacob Oulanyah, that while…
President Yoweri Museveni has said that the Government of Uganda has lifted the ban on the export of raw sugarcane to Kenya for a period of only three months effective next week. The move, he said, aims at allowing Ugandan farmers sell the surplus sugarcane that is not consumed locally. “Mature sugarcane that doesn’t have ready buyers from local millers, should be exported,” he said. The decision to export sugarcane was reached at last evening during a meeting chaired by President Museveni at State House, Entebbe that brought together sugar millers and sugarcane farmers from Busoga Sub-Region. Ugandan farmers, for…
The Deputy Speaker, Jacob Oulanyah, has pledged support to the Uganda Physiotherapy Association’s advocacy agenda to regulate the profession. Oulanyah said many people have suffered more injuries caused by those claiming to be physiotherapists. “I had a bad experience. A friend of mine after traveling for long went for massage. They touched a wrong nerve and he got paralysed,” Oulanyah said. The Deputy Speaker made the remarks at a walk to mark the World Physiotherapy Day to be commemorated on Sunday, 08 September 2019. The walk that covered parts of Kampala was held on Friday. Oulanyah challenged physiotherapists to increase…
The second edition of the Economic Mkutano for which the focus is the role of Science, Technology and innovation in Economic Development is scheduled for Thursday 12, September 2019 at Sheraton Kampala Hotel. Reprising the spirit borne out of the inaugural 2018 edition, the Mkutano serves to facilitate open debate in which conclusions enable us to script our own economic story in a manner that fosters inclusive growth. Mr David BikhadoOfungi, Founder and CEO of DERO and curator of points out the fact that Innovationspeaks to an important tenet of the new development Agenda for Africa. “This edition of the…
President Yoweri Museveni has urged teachers in the country to work devotedly adding that God would reward the teachers who do their work devotedly. He revealed that he and his counterparts benefitted from teachers in the country who were devoted in their services. He strongly cautioned teachers against the practice of pretending to teach when they are not committed to teaching and warned that God sees those who do not deliver as expected. The President made the remarks today at St. Lawrence College, London Campus in Maya, Wakiso District immediately he returned from Tanzania. The teachers have been on a…
Members of Parliament have called on government to find lasting solutions to the rampant blood shortages in the country. During the plenary sitting on Thursday, 05 September 2019, legislators reported that their constituents are facing challenges travelling long distances to access blood, which in most cases is in short supply. “In Pakwach, we do not have a general hospital and so my people walk all the way to Arua district to access blood, which I am also told is in shortage,” Hon Avur Jane Pacuto said. Pacuto was equally concerned that Pakwach district lacks an ambulance that would otherwise ease…
Robert Mugabe, a hero of Africa’s independence struggle whose long rule in Zimbabwe descended into tyranny, corruption and incompetence, has died at the age of 95, president Emmerson Mnangagwa has said. Mnangagwa said in a statement on Friday Mugabe was “an icon of liberation, a pan-Africanist who dedicated his life to the emancipation and empowerment of his people. His contribution to the history of our nation and continent will never be forgotten. May his soul rest in eternal peace.” The passing of the former president, who ruled Zimbabwe for close to four decades before being ousted in a military takeover in November 2017,…
Technology will play a big role in enhancing electoral and democratic governance in African nations. This is according to delegates attending the 50th Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (Africa Region) Conference taking place in Zanzibar. They said that there are however, challenges that include poor Internet connectivity in many rural areas, as well as computer literacy gap that has limited the fast growth of ICT systems in the continent. In a session chaired by the Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga, the Deputy Minister for Education and Vocational Training in the Zanzibar Government, Hon. Simai Mohammed Said, presented a motion on the role…
Uganda is the safest place for any investor to inject their money and offers immense business opportunities, President Museveni has said. “If there is a place where you can easily make money, it is Uganda. The place is secure. That is why we host 1.4 million refugees from the neighbouring countries,” he said. The President made the remarks last evening (Wednesday) at a dinner he jointly hosted with the First Lady, Janet, for the business community at Westin Hotel in Cape Town. President Museveni is in South Africa to take part in the World Economic Forum on Africa, which is…