Yoweri Kaguta Museveni News Archives

Corruption has become Uganda's never-ending nightmare. The latest reminder is the Auditor General's report into the use of the Shs370 billion that went into preparing for, and hosting, the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting two years ago.

As if Facebook groups popping up claiming to be accounts for President Museveni are not enough, a website has also joined the fray.

The recent press reports that Afande Salim Saleh was the architect of the President Museveni and Kabaka Mutebi mediation were calculated to generate hope for an expedited and successful process.

Kampala President Museveni yesterday said drivers in Uganda are disobeying traffic rules, a situation he blamed for the increased road carnage in the country.

Kampala Kabaka Ronald Mutebi II has appointed a negotiation team to meet President Museveni over the re-opening of the kingdoma s radio, Central Broadcasting Services, Daily Monitor has learnt.

Dr Besigye says votersa register was bloated in 2001 a Ghosts are more than one milliona - Besigye Alex B. Atuhaire Kampala Dr Kizza Besigye believes that there are more than one million a ghosta voters on the national voters register - most of them created in 2001 to aid President Museveni.

Kampala Ugandaa s diplomatic relations with oil-rich Norway suffered a setback at the weekend after President Museveni abruptly cancelled a confirmed three-day state visit to the Nordic country due today.

By Patrick Jaramogi SECURITY has been beefed up in Kisenyi, a Kampala suburb with a big Somali population, following threats by the al Shabaab Islamists to attack Kampala.

Kampala The US government over the weekend offered Uganda $246 million in development assistance, mainly to revive health, agriculture and trade sector activities.

Kampala One out of every 10 names in the national voters register is a ghost, an NRM special internal investigation has revealed.

At least 210,000 votes cast in Buganda, Ugandaa s most populous region, during elections are probably by non-existent persons, Saturday Monitor has learnt.

Kampala One out of every 10 names in the national voters register is a ghost, an NRM special internal investigation has revealed.

Jefferson Award winner, Dan Vojir , recognizes the "Genocide Looming In Uganda." His question, "Wither Warren?" That is, Rick Warren , the evangelical pastor of Saddleback Church selected by then-elect President Barack Obama to give the invocation on Inaugural Day 2009.

When the government arrested three Buganda kingdom officials last year as a payback for provocative statements attributed to them that annoyed the powers that be, there was room for pause.

Kampala The African Union Special Summit on Refugees, Returnees and Internally Displaced Persons [IDPs] got underway in Kampala yesterday to a lukewarm attendance by the continenta s heads of state.

The government yesterday moved to deny a report in an international newsletter indicating that President Museveni was snubbed by US President Barack Obama on a recent trip to New York.

Kampala The Police Chief, Maj. Gen. Kale Kayihura, on Saturday disbanded the Rapid Response Unit, pulling the plug on the positions of about 50 officers serving under the outfit, including its top three commanders.

Forum for Democratic Change president, Rtd Col. Kizza Besigye has said if President Museveni and his henchmen cling on to power come 2011, people from western Uganda will be persecuted when he eventually retires.

Security agencies are investigating the cause of a fire that broke out at State Lodge Nakasero on Wednesday night.

Kampala The government has been advised to embrace e-governance to speed up the process of starting businesses in the country.

Security agencies are investigating the cause of a fire that broke out at State Lodge Nakasero on Wednesday night.

A dramatic eight point plan to curb the spread of swine flu was announced yesterday.

Ugandan Supreme Court George Kanyeihamba has said religious leaders and judges should be involved in active politics because they are more credible than politicians.

Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, Thursday sent a message of greetings to Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, President of Uganda, on the occasion of the 47th anniversary of its independence.

Speaking at a palm tree planting ceremony held here in connection with the day, Ugandan Ambassador to Ethiopia, Mull Katende said President Girma sent the message on behalf of the people and government of Ethiopia to President Museveni and the people of Uganda.

Mityana Kabaka Ronald Mutebi yesterday said the 47 years of independence being observed today have been laid to "waste" by unnecessary conflicts.

Kabaka Ronald Mutebi yesterday said the 47 years of independence being observed today have been laid to a oewastea by unnecessary conflicts.

Top spymasters, whose contracts expired four to six months ago, are on tension after State House said yesterday that President Museveni "isn't in a hurry" to renew their contracts.

Police detectives on Tuesday began investigating Monday nighta s mysterious death of Busoga kingdoma s chief royal guard as the central government declined to recognise the two rival kings.

The meeting - it finally happened! President Museveni and Kabaka Mutebi met at State House, Entebbe after four years of silence, snubbed calls et al.

Doors to the parliamentary chambers closed last week as our a oehardworkinga Members of Parliament took a brief respite from the daily rigours of national duty.

Kampala The acting IGG, has castigated the business community for accepting corruption as a way of life.

Fresh details have emerged of what transpired at Wednesdaya s groundbreaking meeting between President Museveni and Kabaka Ronald Mutebi.

Kampala Tripoli is not covertly working with Uganda's cultural leaders to undermine or topple the ruling NRM government, Libyan ambassador Abdalla Bujeldain has said.

By Moses Mulondo THE Libyan government has dismissed reports that President Muamar Gadaffi is supporting efforts to bring down President Yoweri Museveni.