President Yoweri Museveni has said that Uganda offers abundant business opportunities as well as the African continent in general.
The President was speaking at the official opening of the Society for Worldwide Inter-bank Financial Transactions (SWIFT) regional conference today at Kampala Serena Hotel. The conference is running under the theme of “Fostering African Growth and Integration for International Expansion.” SWIFT is headquartered in...
President Yoweri Museveni has reiterated his call to all church leaders in Uganda to economically empower their followers in order to enable them provide adequate support to the institutions of the Churches.
The President was yesterday speaking as Chief Guest at St. Joseph’s Catholic Parish in Ngora where thousands of Christians converged to celebrate the centenary of the establishment of the Catholic faith in Eastern Uganda’s Teso Sub-Region.
President Yoweri Museveni has today launched events that will lead to Uganda’s 50th independence celebrations that will reach a climax on 9th October 2012 and described the last 50 years of independence as a period of learning experience. He said that although the country has not achieved what it should have realized in the past 50 years of Uhuru, it was, however, gratifying that not all the years have been lost.
President Yoweri Museveni has strongly appealed to Muslim leaders in the country to resolve their prevailing leadership wrangles and conflicts that have rocked the Muslim faith in Uganda in the recent past. He said they should work towards uniting the Muslim faithful in the country for the sake of the Islamic faith, the Muslim community and for peace and development of Uganda.
President Yoweri Museveni has paid tribute to the late Professor William Senteza Kajubi as a great educationist that Uganda will miss greatly. He noted that at the age of 86 years, Prof. Kajubi was not a very old man adding that the country could have still kept benefiting from his expertise had he lived longer.
President Yoweri Museveni has received a delegation from the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC), led by the Tanzanian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Bernard Membe.
During the meeting that took place yesterday at State House, Entebbe, and attended by State Minister for International Affairs, Mr. Okello Oryem, the President and his guests discussed issues pertaining to developments in the SADC bloc.
President Yoweri Museveni has strongly criticized some groups in the Ugandan society especially those whose avowed agenda is merely to oppose the development programmes of the National Resistance Movement (NRM) Government. He said that such elements should really check their consciences because their actions of frustrating mass development programmes, like industrialization, that are geared towards the promotion of the welfare and transformation...
President Yoweri Museveni has assured a Chinese Private owned company, Gingko Energy, their plans to invest in the development of Kilembe Copper Mines in Kasese district, Wesatern Uganda, is a welcome move. He said the Government of Uganda is interested in allowing investments in Kilembe Mines in order to ensure that the country gets more revenue that would be used to expand the national development tempo.
President Yoweri Museveni has said that Uganda now has a unique opportunity to take off and become a middle income country. He said that with security prevailing in the whole country, coupled with an educated population and enough electricity supply for the first in the history of the Uganda and national unity as reflected in the last elections, the country will definitely take off.
President Yoweri Museveni has extended an invitation to entrepreneurs from Qatar in particular and the Middle East as a whole to invest in Uganda so that they are able to tap into the brisk business opportunities the country offers, especially in the processing sector. He said that despite the past challenges, Uganda which is well endowed with abundant raw materials base, the country continues to progress towards the attainment of its goal of...