Category: Uganda
The Ugandan writing jokes for Trevor Noah Comedy Central
Joseph Opio has always been serious about comedy. So serious, in fact, that he walked away from a promising newspaper job in Kampala, borrowed a large sum of money, and went to the US to try to make people laugh. Some people end up in comedy the way a drunkard stumbles into a previously unknown…
Ugandan President Museveni marks 31 years in power
One of Africa’s longest serving leaders, President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda, marks 31 years in power on Thursday. The president is the chief guest at the Masindi Sports Grounds national event in western Uganda, where the NRM Liberation Day fete is taking place under the theme: “Uganda’s success story under NRM Leadership is a shared…
Ugandan President Museveni names new internal spymaster
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni continues to shakeup top leadership in the country’s key security organs and has now fired the head of the internal spy agency. Brigadier Ronnie Balya, who served as the deputy director-general of the Internal Security Organisation (ISO) since 2006 before taking the helm in 2010, has been replaced. Taking over from…
Uganda President Museveni defends $1.7M ‘presidential handshake’
Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has defended the payment of controversial $1.7 million in bonuses to 42 public officials who represented the country in an international tax oil dispute. Mr Museveni, who had remained quiet following a public outrage over the payments dubbed “presidential handshake”, told a caucus of his ruling National Resistance Movement party that…
Ugandan soldier executed by Somalia’s al Shabaab militants
MOGADISHU (HAN) January 19.2017 Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News. By Feisal Omar. Somalia’s Islamist al Shabaab militia has executed a Ugandan soldier captured more than a year ago, according to a video released online by the militants and confirmed by their spokesman. Henry Obbo, Uganda’s deputy military spokesman, told Reuters they were not aware of…
Uganda detects bird flu in wild, domestic birds
By ANDREW BAGALA. Uganda on Sunday activated an emergency plan for epidemics control after detecting the first outbreak of a deadly bird flu that hit both wild and domestic birds in different locations. Mr Vincent Ssempijja, the Agriculture minister, said specimens taken from white-winged tern birds that died on Lake Victoria shores, “unfortunately have turned positive…
Uganda: Museveni’s son a heartbeat away from Presidency
By Julius Barigaba. Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni appears to have completed a largely smooth transition of the military by placing Young Turks at the helm of the army hierarchy. On Monday January 9, president and Commander-in-Chief Museveni made changes in the army leadership, promoting Maj-Gen David Muhoozi, 51, to full General and appointing him Chief of…
Ugandan king re-arrested shortly after being granted bail
A Ugandan traditional leader, Charles Wesley Mumbere, was Friday evening re-arrested shortly after the High Court had granted him a non-cash bail of $27,371. The King of the Rwenzururu kingdom in western Uganda had been in jail since November 29. At about 6:30pm, he finally agreed to leave the premises driving in the official vehicle…
Uganda president names first female Major General
Brigadier Proscovia Nalweyiso has made history after she became the first female Major-General in the Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF), in top military changes announced by President Yoweri Museveni on Friday. In Summary President Museveni on Monday night shook up the army leadership dropping Chief of Defence Forces (CDF) Gen Katumba Wamala. Chief of Military…
EU trade: Defining talks for EA Presidents for this month
NAIROBI (HAN) January 13.2017 Public Diplomacy & Regional Security News. By Allan Olingo. The East African Community Heads of State Summit, which was to be held in the first week of this month, has been pushed to next month, after the regional ministers of trade and East African affairs failed to agree on some of the…
