President Yoweri Museveni has strongly advised all Ugandans who have settled on National Forestry Reserves to vacate them to save the country from severe environmental degradation that is a direct result of the encroachment on forestry reserves and wetlands.
President Yoweri Museveni has told the 2-day Tana High-Level Forum on Security of Africa that if the African leaders and those who love the continent do not address ways of ensuring economic prosperity of the continent and her people and only engage in the African people’s diversity, ethnicity and all forms of their social and religious differences and regard these as the main cause of insecurity to the continent, then they either don’t know the...
President Yoweri Museveni has mourned the late Manubhai Madvani, describing him as a very hard working entrepreneur who, together with his family of the Madhvanis, has contributed immensely to the economic growth of Uganda.
The President was this afternoon speaking at the interment of the ashes of the late Manubhai M. Madhavi, who died in London (UK) last year 2011 in May and was cremated at the foot-hills of Mount Himalaya in India. His ashes...
President Yoweri Museveni has received and held a meeting with a delegation of Movement leaders from Kitgum district who called on him at his country home in Rwakitura, Kiruhuura district.
During the meeting that took place yesterday, the President challenged the Kitgum leadership to take advantage of the prevailing hard-earned peace in their district in particular and the region as a whole, as well as the existing government’s development...
President Yoweri Museveni, who is also the Chairman of the National Resistance Movement (NRM), yesterday received and welcomed Mr. Moses Kisolo, a Personal Assistant to the leader of the Opposition in Parliament, Hon. Nathan Nandala Mafabi, who crossed from the opposition Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) and joined the NRM Party.
President Yoweri Museveni has urged the youth to take advantage of the prevailing socio-political and economic development that the country is experiencing and use it positively, especially in the area of education. He said that it was a big problem in the past to access education but in the NRM era education is largely available in the country and in most parts it is free adding that there is no reason why people should not access it.
President Yoweri Museveni has said that the impressive success that has been registered by the Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) contingent that is serving in the African Mission to Somalia (AMISOM), is due to Uganda’s ideology, discipline, training and political solidarity.
The President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, was yesterday passing out soldiers who have concluded a 7 months’ Peace Support Operations Course at Singo...
President Yoweri Museveni has received and held a meeting with a delegation of the Uganda Muslim Supreme Council officials.
The meeting took place this afternoon at State House, Nakasero.
The delegation that was led by the Mufti of Uganda, His Eminence Sheikh Shaban Ramadhan Mubaje, discussed with the President issues pertaining to the Muslim community in the country.
President Yoweri Museveni has said that the government designed the Universal Primary and Secondary Education (UPE and USE) to be day as opposed to boarding programmes because it wanted the programmes to be affordable and available to all Ugandans.
The President made the remarks yesterday while commissioning the newly constructed St. Peter’s Secondary School in Kapelebyong County Amuria district, Teso Sub-Region.
President Yoweri Museveni has said that the government will conduct investigations on all atrocities allegedly committed by the then National Resistance Army (NRA) during the period of insecurity in Eastern and Northern Uganda in the 1980’s in a spirit of embracing national reconciliation. He, however, stressed that the anti-government groups also need to do the same as they are implicated in many of the atrocities meted out on the people in...