By Jamesa Wafula in Nairobi. In what might now sound like sweet music in the ears of Kenya’s new President William Ruto, cracks have started emerging in the Azmio La Umoja grand coalition whose flag bearer Raila Odinga narrowly lost in the August 9, 2022 elections. Odinga who has just celebrated his 78th birthday in…
By Our Reporter. National Organisation of Trade Unions (NOTU) affiliates on January 9, 2023 convened General Council which endorsed new leaders and also suspended the federations Chairman General Mr Usher Wilson Owere. Acting Chairman General Mr Musa Okello said they are not in the culture of pursuing one another over mistakes made in administration. “Go…
By Our Reporter. President Yoweri Museveni has re-affirmed the cardinal mission of NRM government since 1986 as the commitment to ensuring national minimum economic recovery and expansion. “Today, Uganda exports 60 million kilograms of tea, 70 million bags of coffee, the production of cotton has increased and tourism has been the main national foreign exchange…
By Stephen Ouma Bwire. As the National Resistance Movement (NRM) celebrates 37 years in power since President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni came to power on January 26, 1986, corruption and impunity have grown and are almost becoming institutionalized. Individuals are taking the law in their hands and directing repression at citizens on flimsy or fabricated cases….
By Our Reporter Uganda Journalists Union (UJU) and Union of Journalists of South Sudan (UJOSS) have strengthened cooperation that will ensure joint Press Freedom monitoring, training , advocacy and trade union development . UJOSS Secretary General Mr Majak Kuany Alier (right) and UJU General Secretary Mr Stephen Ouma Bwire held discussions at UJU offices, Equatoria…
By Zurah Nakabugo. AstraZeneca has announced a planned expansion of its access to healthcare programme, Healthy Heart Africa (HHA), to 10 more countries, starting in 2023. The programme, which is currently present in nine countries, is designed to contribute to the prevention and control of hypertension or high blood pressure and the burden of cardiovascular…
By Silvano Kibuuka. The International Boxing Association (IBA) President Umar Kremlev from Russia could not reserve his ambitions of promoting boxing on the African continent when he came to Uganda for the ground breaking on the land earmarked to be home of boxing on the continent.Kremlev also had to bury the sentiments with the International…
By Sarah Kibisi. According to BCW’s Twiplomacy, a digital diplomacy initiative by the strategic communication agency, BCW Global in their 2022 World Leader Power Ranking report, Kenyan President William Ruto ranked 13 worldwide leads the pack in Africa and is closely followed by Cyril Ramaphosa, from South Africa and Museveni comes third and 29th in…