Uganda news

The executive committee has been accused of delaying the Mining and Minerals Resources Bill 2021. The accusations have come from the Civil Society Organizations and Legislators on Parliament’s Natural Resources Committee. Many consider the bill a critical legal instrument in governing the country’s mining and mineral exploitation industry. The deadline for the parliamentary committee on Environment and Natural Resources to ...

Political activist and novelist, Kakwenza Rukirabashaija has warned Museveni that his illegitimate power will collapse soon. The novelist who ran to exile apparently through Rwanda to go to Europe used his social media to sting Museveni and his son. He warned the two they touched the wrong person this time around. “Superannuated dictator Museveni and your pachydermatous curmudgeon son, you ...

President Museveni has said that every party that is not part of IPOD should not in any way share from the forum. He noted that although IPOD brings together all political parties represented in parliament, some do not want to cooperate with others. According to him, therefore, they should not qualify for government funding under IPOD arrangement. “It should even ...

Kampala has responded to a decision by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ordering Uganda to compensate DR Congo. The ICJ said Uganda should pay Congo $325m (about shs 1.1 b) over a conflict that lasted from 1998 until 2003.The ICJ, which is the UN’s top court based in the Hague delivered its ruling on Wednesday. DR Congo sought $11b ...

I’m Gitau Shalom from Kirinyaga County, I have two children and happily married to Gashui Ester. I’m a businessman owning more than five hotels in Kirinyaga. One year ago this wasn’t the case, things were totally different as I was nearly running bankrupt and i had debts everywhere. I was sacked from my job as a waiter. I tried to ...