Parliament of Uganda

Jan252021 by Keefa NuNo Comments

Ugandan army kills 189 Al Shabab fighters in Somalia

Military equipment and two commanders of the Al-Qaeda-linked group reportedly seized during raids in Lower Shabelle region Uganda's army said its troops killed 189 fighters of the Al Qaeda-linked Al Shabab militant group in an attack on their camps on Friday. Ugandan troops are part of the African Union peacekeeping mission deployed in Somalia to support the central government and stop Al Shabab's efforts to topple it. The Ugandan People's Defence Force said in a statement that its soldiers raided Al Shabab hideouts in the villages of Sigaale, Adimole and Kayitoy, just over 100 kilometres south-west of the capital Mogadishu, in the Lower Shabelle region. The raid "saw the forces put out of action 189 Al Qaeda-linked fighters and destroyed a number of military hardware and item...

Jan242021 by Keefa NuNo Comments

Uganda’s LRA Rebel Leader Joseph Kony is reportedly dead owing to COVID-19.

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Some sections of the Ugandan media is reporting that Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony who is wanted at the International Criminal Court at Hague for war crimes and crimes against humanity has reportedly dies following infection by the deadly coronavirus disease. The Ugandan media however reported – quoting senior army commanders in the UPDF – that the army command is “yet to get any information regarding death of LRA leader, Joseph Kony, which is widely making rounds on social media.” The reports indicate that Kony succumbed to COVID19 in Central African Republic. Who is Joseph Rao Kony? Joseph Rao Kony born 1961 is a Ugandan insurgent and the leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), a guerrilla group that formerly operated in Uganda. While initially purporting to f...

Dec302020 by Keefa NuNo Comments

Uganda’s Presidential candidate Bobi Wine and his campaign team arrested again.

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The opposition presidential candidate was arrested while campaigning in Kalangala in the country’s central region. Uganda opposition presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi, popularly known as Bobi Wine, and his campaign team have been arrested in Kalangala in the country’s central region, he said in a post on Twitter. The arrests on Wednesday spurred protests at a field in Kalangala Island in Lake Victoria where a helicopter was parked and which Wine’s supporters said they believed would be used to fly him back to the capital Kampala. Police fired tear gas at the crowd who were protesting. “They are firing even now to disperse people gathering on roads,” a witness, who did not want to give his name for security reasons, told Reuters news agency. Wine has emerged a...

Dec292020 by Keefa NuNo Comments

“Stop pre-election violence, arrests’’ UN rights experts urge Uganda

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UN human rights experts* today expressed serious concerns about the violence ahead of Uganda's presidential election, and urged authorities to put an end to the arrest, detention and judicial harassment of political opponents, civil society leaders and human rights defenders. Media outlets have reported that three journalists were hurt on Sunday after being hit by tear gas canisters in Masaka. Opposition leader Robert Kyagulanyi, also known as Bobi Wine, said one of his bodyguards died after being hit by a military truck later the same day. The military has denied this, saying he fell from a speeding car. "We are gravely concerned by the election-related violence, the excessive use of force by security personnel, as well as the increasing crackdown on peaceful protesters, po...

Dec282020 by Keefa NuNo Comments

“My bodyguard was ‘deliberately’ run over and killed” Bobi Wine

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Ugandan’s presidential opposition candidate Bobi Wine said one of his bodyguards was run over and killed Sunday by a military police truck, while taking a journalist to the hospital. "I regret to announce the murder of my security team member Francis Senteza Kalibala aka Frank. He was deliberately ran over by military-police truck," Wine, a pop musician turned politician, wrote on Twitter. “I regret to announce the murder of my security team member Francis Senteza Kalibala aka Frank. He was deliberately ran over by military- police truck, No. H4DF 2382 which blocked us in Busega on our way to Rubaga to get Kasirye Ashraf emergency medical attention. What a day! A spokesperson for the Ugandan military denied Wine's bodyguard had been targeted. "UPDF (Ugandan People's ...

Nov102020 by Our ReporterNo Comments

Eng. Dr Ben Manyindo Removed, Acting Executive Director UNBS David Livingstone Ebiru

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The long-serving executive director, Eng. Dr Ben Manyindo retired from UNBS service on November 01, 2020. UNBS is a statutory body under the ministry of trade, industry, and co-operatives established by the UNBS Act Cap 327. It became operational in 1989. The Bureau acknowledged the outstanding contribution made by Manyindo, towards its growth in terms of infrastructure and service delivery during his tenure of service. UNBS mandated to developing, promoting, and enforcing national standards in order to protect the safety and health of consumers and the environment against dangerous and sub-standard products.The goal of UNBS is to strengthen the economy of Uganda by assuring the quality of locally manufactured products to enhance the competitiveness of exports in regional and...

Oct232020 by Keefa NuNo Comments

US Joins Uganda to Co-sponsor a Non-binding International Declaration Opposing Abortion

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The United States joined Brazil, Egypt, Hungary, Indonesia and Uganda on Thursday to co-sponsor a nonbinding international declaration opposing abortion, in a rebuke of the UN Human Rights Council, which has enshrined abortion access as a universal right. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar participated in the virtual signing ceremony. The Geneva Consensus Declaration aims to promote women's health, "defends the unborn and reiterates the vital importance of the family," Pompeo said at the ceremony. Access to abortion is widely restricted in the other countries to co-sponsor the declaration. "There is no international right to abortion," Pompeo said. Though the document does not directly address same-sex marriage, the only co-spon...

Oct152020 by Keefa NuNo Comments

Police raids NUP Headquarters in Kamokya, Election-related Documents taken.

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Ugandan police and military forces armed with door cutters, AK-47 guns, tear gas canisters and batons stormed offices of the National Unity Platform party in Kampala on Wednesday. Roads leading to party offices were cut off as police parked huge trucks in front. Security officers forced open doors and took items from inside. They later asked members of the party to sign for what was taken. Joel Ssenyonyi, the NUP spokesperson, said the officers took items from the office of party leader Robert Kyagulanyi, better known by his stage name Bobi Wine. "They have taken paraphernalia, that is red berets. T-shirts. They have taken documents ... we are still trying to establish exactly," Ssenyonyi said. "They also broke into honorable Kyagulanyi's ...

Oct142020 by Keefa NuNo Comments

Despite of Crucial Agreements, Uganda not sure of the exploration start date

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By Matt Smith Pipeline deal with Tanzania and agreement with Total raise hopes of FID—but go-ahead could be delayed until 2022 Upcoming elections and doubts over financing for the world’s longest heated oil pipeline could scupper Uganda’s hopes of obtaining FID on its much-delayed Lake Albert crude project before year-end. Lake Albert was found to hold c.1.7bn bl of crude following Tullow Oil’s discovery of oil in 2006. The financially troubled Anglo-Irish Tullow, French major Total and Chinese NOC Cnooc each hold one-third stakes in the project—although Total agreed in April to buy out Tullow for $575mn: $500mn on conclusion of the deal, plus $75mn following FID. Tullow, which says the sale should be complete by year-end, would receive further payments if Brent prices ...

Oct132020 by Our ReporterNo Comments

Parliamentary Candidates to miss out due to high Nomination Fee

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Candidates in Uganda's upcoming parliamentary elections have until Thursday to pay a nomination fee of a little more than $800 to the Electoral Commission. However, some don't have the money, forcing political parties to appeal for support on social media. Last week, Robert Kyagulanyi, better known as the singer Bobi Wine, asked his followers on social media to financially support parliamentary candidates running under his National Unity Platform party. He said that as the nomination period draws to a close, the party has many candidates, especially from western and northern Uganda, who risk being unable to run because they don't have the required three million shillings, equal to about $800. Wine accused President Yoweri Museveni and his allies of making it expensive...