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The Parliament of Uganda is marking 100 years of existence today, eversince 1921 when the House had their inaugural sitting as the Legslative Council (LEGCO). The first ever Ugandan Parliamentary sitting was conducted on March 21st, 1921 at present day Entebbe High Court building. In the first sitting, the LEGCO had 06 members attending (all Europeans) much as the House composition was initially designed to be 07. The Indians had refused to nominate a representative, and there was no indigenous Ugandan/African representative. The first ever Parliamentary sitting was constistuted of the Protectorate Governor (acting as President), the Chief Secretary, the…

President Museveni has announced that Uganda will observe a 14-day mourning period in honour of the Late John Pombe Joseph Magufuli, the former President of Tanzania who was announced dead on Wednesday March 16th, 2021. Magufuli, whom President Museveni has described as a “very pragmatic leader who believed in and worked for the economic empowerment of East Africans” was the 5th President of Tanzania and replaced former President Jakaya Kikwete. Magufuli was replaced by his Vice President Samia Suluhu Hassan, who was sworn into office in a ceremony yesterday. President Museveni has also ordered that all Ugandan flags be hoisted…

It was shock and drama at Supreme court when one of the Bobi Wine petition judges Esther Kisaakye revealed to our reporters that the Chief Justice Owiny Dollo was involved in the confiscation of her file containing a dissenting ruling to what other justices had decided. On one court session after the rulings read by Justice Ruby Opio Aweri, Ezekiel Muhanguzi, and Paul Mugamba, the Chief Justice told the audience that the court would go for a 30-minute break before returning for Justice Kisakye to read her own rulings. However, after a period of over an hour, lawyers from both…

According to Tanzania’s Constitution, when a president dies while in office, the vice president who in this case is Samia Suluhi Hassan becomes a president with immediate effect after swearing in. Samia Suluhu yesterday Wednesday announced the death of Tanzania’s revolutionary and fierce president Pombe Magufuli who succumbed to heart attack according to reports. Who is Samia Suluhu Hassan? According to the African community newspaper Mshale, “hers has been a slow and methodical rise to the top”. The result is that she is Tanzania’s first, and also the first female vice-president in the region since Uganda’s Specioza Naigaga Wandira Kazibwe…

Last week, opposition politicians in Tanzania raised questions about the health of Tanzania’s COVID-19-denying president John Magufuli, as he was not seen in public for more than a week and at least one official close to him had died a few days before. Magufuli was last seen in public on Feb. 27 at the swearing-in ceremony for the country’s secretary of state in the State House government offices in Dar es Salaam, the East African country’s largest city. Magufuli’s absence was unusual as he was known for frequent public speeches and appearances on state television several times a week. Tanzanian…

If you are an avid follower of the news and events in Uganda, you must have come by a one Thomas Belesis aka Tommy an American investor that was involved in a Shs30bn Gold Scam with some Ugandan nationals. Tommy, the complainant in the said scam, according to information this website has received, doesn’t appear as clean as the laws of equity dictate. Sources say his hands are very dirty. According to The Sprint Magazine and edge.ug among other sources, Mr. Belesis is an “international fraudster with multiple identities and nationalities”, which they say is causing questionable integrity. “Tommy is…

Former Presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi alias Bobi Wine together with other NUP ambassadors were today ambushed and arrested by Police near the Freedom square in Kampala for engaging in protests without police approval. According to our highly places sources, the outgoing Kyadondo East MP, together with some of his party members are currently being held at Central Police Station. Last week, Bobi Wine made a call to Ugandans to carry out peaceful demonstrations as a way of showing discontent in the January 14 presidential election outcomes. In his statement, Bobi Wine said as National Unity Platform (NUP), they just want…

News reaching our desk indicate that former presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi alias Bobi Wine with other NUP officials have been arrested around City Square,Kampala for engaging in unlawful ‘peaceful’ demonstration. The demonstration was ambushed by security officers while in process and Bobi Wine whisked to an unknown place. It is believed that police is driving him back to Magere. Its a developing story…

Fórum for Democratic Change (FDC) Party spokesman and opposition Chief Whip in Parliament Hon. Ibrahim Ssemujju Nganda has declared intentions to run for Speaker of Parliament in the 11th House. The Kira Municipality MP has made the revelation while talking to the Press, a move that many political observers saw coming. Ssemujju will be seeking to challenge incumbent Rt. Hon. Rebecca Alitwala Kadaga that is seeking a third term in the office of Speaker having first taken it in 2011, to replace current Vice President Edward Ssekandi. Another high profile figure that has expressed interest in the seat is Deputy…

The Nile Basin Initiative (NBI) in collaboration with the Government of Ethiopia is organising a string of webinars for the 6th Nile Basin Development Forum (NBDF) under the theme ‘Rethinking Regional Investments in the Nile Basin’. The Nile Basin Development Forum is a science-policy dialogue organised by the Nile Basin Initiative (NBI) with its Member States. It has been held since 2006 and brings together stakeholders from across the Basin and around the world to build consensus on the Nile cooperation agenda and the way forward for the sustainable development and management of the Nile Basin. Explaining the theme, NBI Secretariat Executive Director, Prof. Seifeldin Hamad Abdalla said, “The…