Category: Uganda
Uganda: Tiger Power a Belgian firm has signed an agreement
Kampla (HAN) December 26, 2018. Energy and power supply investments. Ninety per cent of Uganda’s rural areas still lack access to electricity. SEFA was the pioneer of solar energy in Uganda. They’ve installed over 10,000 systems since opening in 1995. Update: Another first for East Africa as round-the-clock hybrid power grids start operations. By KENNEDY SENELWA (the…
Uganda & Tanzania want 150PC tariff “Sugar Dumping”
Presidents Yoweri Museveni and John Magufuli on Thursday met over Tanzania’s decision to impose a 25 per cent import duty on sugar manufactured in Uganda and pointed at Kenya as the source of the problem. Tanzania has demanded a 25 per cent import duty from Kagera Sugar Ltd, which had at the end of April…
Museveni urges South Sudan refugees to return home
KAMPALA (HAN) AUGUST 08.2018. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News.Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has said he hopes around a million South Sudanese refugees will return home following the signing of a peace deal to end the civil war by the country’s leaders. Signed in Sudan’s capital Khartoum on Sunday between President Salva Kiir’s government and opponents…
Uganda: Watch Archbishop of York ends 10 year protest over Mugabe
London (HAN) November 29th, 2017 – Public Diplomacy & Regional security initiatives. The Archbishop of York, John Sentamu, put on his white cleric’s collar on Sunday for the first time since cutting it up ten years ago in a highly symbolic protest at Robert Mugabe’s rule. The Uganda-born cleric, the second most senior clergyman in…
The Uganda police force that lost its way in the ideological thicket
The Uganda Police Force is going through a rather rough patch at the moment. Last week a crop of senior officers were arrested by agents from a sister security agency and arraigned before court. There is nothing new in the police being at the receiving end of bad publicity. Going through rough patches has become…
Uganda MPs reject ‘bribe’ linked to age-limit Bill
Some Ugandan legislators have rejected money released by Parliament to facilitate consultations on the Bill seeking to scrap the presidential age limit. So far, 10 of 445 MPs have returned the Ush29 million ($8,000) deposited into their accounts, with the latest being the Leader of Opposition in Parliament Winnie Kiiza. Ms Kiiza, Kasese Woman MP, on Thursday said…
Uganda President Yoweri Museveni directs MPs to back age limit Bill
On Friday October 6, President Yoweri Museveni openly backed the ongoing push to amend the Constitution and remove the age limit on the presidency. He told members of his ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) caucus that they were either with him or against him on the matter. President Museveni declared that NRM was for the…
Somalia: Museveni Ready to deploy 5,000 Freash Troops to Somalia
Kampala(HAN) October 27.2017. Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News. President Museveni has told United States officials that Uganda is ready to deploy 5,000 additional troops to bolster military operations of the African Union Mission for Somalia (Amisom) against the resurgent al-Shabaab insurgents. Sources familiar with the discussions told Daily Monitor that Gen Museveni announced the offer…
Somalia: Step towards forming a strong political opposition
Kampala (HAN) August 19th, 2017 – Public Diplomacy & Regional Security. One has been the country’s president for four years, the other defeated him in a surprise vote that dashed his high hopes for winning a second term presidency, igniting a long-running personal conflicts and bitter political rivalry between the two men that lasted nearly…
Uganda Targets South Sudan and Congo With Logistics Hub
Kampala (HAN) 27 April, 2017 – Public Diplomacy & Regional Trade and Investment for Stability. Trade and Logistic note Opinion By Mark Keith Muhumuza (The Monitor). Uganda is considered a cheaper cargo route for goods bound to South Sudan, than the direct route to from Mombasa to Juba. This was revealed by Mr Richard Kamajugo, the…
