Author: Evans Kalyango

A section of Association of Uganda Tour Operators (AUTO) members have written to the AUTO executive committee calling for the cancellation of the upcoming AUTO elections. Through their lawyers; Atuhairwe and Company Advocates, the members have threatened legal action if the current AUTO leadership adamantly goes ahead and conducts elections that they are referring to as illegal and unconstitutional. “Under the current memarts, the Executive Committee is barred from seeking re-election in the upcoming elections, as they have already served two consecutive terms of two years each,” the letter dated January 14th that this website has seen reads in part.…

Chaos and confusion took centre stage in Butale, Kaddugala in Masaka city as thousands of mourners converged to say good bye to a politician whom every one described as a leader of the common person. Two burial functions were organized; one organized by Mathais Mpuuga on behalf of parliament where Ssegirinya was an MP for Kawempe North and another at Ssegirinya’s ancestral home by his party the National Unity Platform. Politics took it’s course as politicians used Ssegirinya’s burial to claim supremacy. Police and army who had come to take Ssegirinya’s body to the parliament’s designated ground were blocked by…

Early this week, the General Court Martial sitting at Makindye was a concert of chaos and confusion as Veteran Opposition politician Dr. Kiiza Besigye and his co-accused Hajj Obeid Lutale returned to the military court. The duo were kidnapped from Nairobi in November last year and are facing charges related to threatening National Security and subversion which prosecution says Besigye, Lutales and others at large committed in Athens-Greece, Geneva-Switzerland and Nairobi-Kenya. What started as a confrontation between Lawyer Eron Kiiza and the court Orderly who tried blocking him from taking the advocate’s seat in the court turned into a nightmare…

The death of Kawempe North MP Muhammad Ssegirinya continues to send shockwaves among his supporters, family and friends after losing a long battle of sickness at the Lubaga Hospital in Kampala. Many people have described Ssegirinya as a true face of the down trodden who cared for every one at their lowest and would anything with his means to save or care for anyone and his passion to help drove him to start a hospital for his constituents in Kawempe. Ssegirinya rose from being a radio caller to now a politician that each one is praising today. He joined active…

President Museveni after failing to secure the majority votes with his then newly established party UPM decided to launch a guerilla war against a legitimately elected government of Dr Milton Oboto in 1981. The war would later drag on for 5 years leaving 1000s displaced and others in 1000s dead in the greater Luwero triangle and on 26 January 1986, Museveni’s National Resistance Army (NRA) emerged victorious and took over government and has been around for now close to 40 years ruling Ugandans and has plans to extend this to 45 years in the coming elections of 2026. ADVERT: FOR…

In the news this morning, former Vice President of Uganda Dr Specioza Wandira Kazibwe was last evening rushed to hospital after being involved in a motor accident along the Jinja- Kayunga road in the areas of Wakisi. According to police, the front tyre of the Toyota Land Cruiser in which Dr Kazibwe and Louis Igapira Wandira, 17, were driving raptured before the driver, Fred Kayongo veered off the road and rammed into the pole. Specioza Naigaga Wandira Kazibwe now 70 years was the first female vice president of Uganda, she was also the first woman in Africa to hold such…

Ahead of the 2026 General elections, political parties will early next year start preparing for the elections which many politicians especially those in opposition call a ritual to stamp Museveni’s grip to power. President Museveni has already shown signs that he’s going nowhere and will run for presidency again to push his stay in state house to 45 years. He’s always unopposed in NRM when the party is voting for flag bearers since the position of Party Chairperson and NRM presidential flag bearer are ringfenced for him alone. Now ahead of the 2026 polls, NRM party just like other parties…

Historically and today Agriculture has been the backbone of Uganda’s economy and the country boasts of several exports from Agriculture like Coffee, Sugar, Milk, Meat among others. A long the way, several other sectors like mining, ICT, tourism among others have boomed and earn the country a lot of money which is in millions of dollars both from sales, services and taxes. However, there’s a sector that has not been yet recognized but actors dealing in the said business are minting cash and according to the West Budama North Constituency Hon Fox Odoi, it’s high time government legalized prostitution such…

On the night of 19th May this very year, Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS) commenced the 2024 census exercise (NPHC) which lasted for 10 days. The idea was establish the number of people living and working in Uganda and quality of life they live. The census also sought to establish the other welfare-related characteristics of the Ugandan population. The last census, preceding the one of 2024, had been conducted in the year 2014. The new census of 2024, whose final report is to be released and proclaimed by UBOS next month, equally shows the ways in which different things have…

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