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Parliament to assess Govt investment in Munyonyo Commonwealth Resort

Parliament’s Committee on Trade, Tourism, and Industry has tasked Munyonyo Commonwealth Resort Limited to provide audited financial statements after it emerged that the facility has not been officially audited for the last four years, reportedly due to the delayed appointment of government representatives to the Board. Munyonyo is a partially government-owned Vitoria Lakeside five-star hotel resort in Kampala sitting on a 90-acre land. Through the Uganda Development Corporation – UDC, the government holds 25 percent shares or 15,061,309,120 shares out of the 60,244,836,480 paid-up shares in Munyonyo. While appearing before the probe Committee on Thursday, Dr. Patrick Birungi, the Executive Director of UDC revealed that Munyonyo Resort has no audited financial statements for the Financial Year 2019 and 2022 due to the delayed appointment of government representatives to the Board. The Committee chaired by Charles Okello the Nwoya East County […]

admin October 20, 2023

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Court okays minister Kitutu’s travel abroad

BY URN The High court has allowed the minister for Karamoja Affairs Mary Gorreti Kitutu Kimono to travel to the United Kingdom and Dubai. Anti-Corruption court judge Jane Okuo Kajuga granted Kitutu permission to travel following her partly successful application seeking to vary her bail terms imposed on her when she was granted bail on charges of abuse of office. She is jointly charged with her brother, Michael Naboya Kitutu, and her personal assistant Joshua Abaho who are all out on bail. However, last week Kitutu through her lawyer Jude Byamukama, told justice Kajuga that her right to free movement cannot be restricted because she is still presumed innocent. She argued that as a minister for Karamoja Affairs in the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM), she is required to attend high-level meetings and conferences both within and outside Uganda on behalf […]

admin October 12, 2023

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What’s the Israel-Palestinian conflict about? The origin of wars explained

REUTERS - The fighting between Israel and Hamas, which launched a surprise attack on Saturday, is the latest in seven decades of war and conflict between Israelis and Palestinians that has drawn in outside powers and destabilised the wider Middle East. WHAT ARE THE ORIGINS OF THE CONFLICT? The conflict pits Israeli demands for security in what it has long regarded as a hostile region against Palestinian aspirations for a state of their own. Israel's founding father David Ben-Gurion proclaimed the modern State of Israel on May 14, 1948, establishing a safe-haven for Jews fleeing persecution and seeking a national home on land to which they cite deep ties over generations. Palestinians lament Israel's creation as the Nakba, or catastrophe, that resulted in their dispossession and blocked their dreams of statehood. In the war that followed, some 700,000 Palestinians, half […]

admin October 12, 2023

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Hamas gunmen ‘killed families in their beds’ at Kfar Aza kibbutz, say Israeli forces

JERUSALEM: In Kfar Aza, no one was too old, too young or too weak for slaughter, the Guardian reports. It took the Israeli army half a day to reach the kibbutz of 750 people in southern Israel and fighting continued there for three days. In that time Hamas gunmen killed and mutilated dozens of civilian residents. “Mothers, fathers, babies, young families killed in their beds, in the protection room, in the dining room, in their garden,” Maj Gen Itai Veruv of the Israel Defence Forces told the BBC, as his troops searched homes for bodies of victims. “It’s not a war, it’s not a battlefield. It’s a massacre.” The kibbutz was one of the first Israeli settlements reached by Hamas militants when they launched an assault early on Saturday morning. The community had a security team, and houses had safe […]

admin October 11, 2023

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Back off, Tayebwa tells government over condoms for 15-year-old girls

KAMPALA – The Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Mr Thomas Tayebwa, has stepped in to clip a new plan by the Health ministry officials to allow girls aged aged 15 to use condoms, implants, birth control pills and other family planning methods. Tayebwa on Tuesday gave his side of the coin in response to a matter raised by Lucy Akello, the Amuru District Woman MP, who questioned the draft policy on contraceptives for young girls. He warned the architects of the policy, that legalizing birth control for young girls would be equivalent to legitimizing sexual violence in Uganda. “The devil shouldn't take hold of anyone's thoughts to approve birth control for teenagers.” We pray that the devil doesn’t find his way and such thoughts should never come into the minds of our people because it is giving up,” Tayebwa said. “That […]

admin October 11, 2023

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EC boss Byabakama survives jail, Shs 3bn fine over contempt of court

The Constitutional court has dismissed an application in which Bukimbiri MP, Eddie Kwizera, sought the arrest of Electoral Commission chairperson Simon Byabakama and a fine of Shs 3 billion for contempt of court. Constitutional court justices comprising deputy chief justice Richard Buteera, Catherine Bamugemereire, Muzamiru Mutangula Kibeedi, Irene Mulyagonja, and Oscar Kihika declared Kwizera's application as premature, in bad faith, and an abuse of the court process. This decision stems from an application filed on March 17, 2020, which originated from a December 27, 2019, judgment. In this case, Kwizera had sued the attorney general and the Electoral Commission, seeking a declaration that the creation of Apac, Sheema, Ibanda, Nebbi, Bugiri, and Kotido municipalities as constituencies was null and void. Kwizera argued that the new six constituencies were illegally created by parliament, demanding they be expunged from government records and […]

admin October 10, 2023

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Ugandan military fighter jets hit three ADF targets in Congo

KAMPALA: Uganda's president Yoweri Museveni has said the country's military fighter jets hit three targets of the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) terrorists in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). A press statement from State House on Thursday said the air ride by the Uganda People's Defence Forces (UPDF) bombers was carried out on Wednesday. "Our fighter- bombers paid another visit to the terrorists, quite some distance inside Congo, in the Mambasa territory area. They attacked three targets, 180km, 184km and 200km, respectively, from the border on the Ntoroko side," Museveni said in the statement. The president congratulated the joint forces of UPDF and the Congolese army for protecting the population against the terrorists. They [terrorists] have been inviting us to pay attention to them by killing Ugandans and we are now responding to the invitation. The attacks are invariably […]

admin October 8, 2023

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Who muted these ‘sexy’ yellow girls of Museveni?

KAMPALA: President Yoweri Museveni is fond of deploying yellow girls in various positions of the party and government in a bid to emancipate women. Despite their rise being smooth, most of them have not found it rosy at the apex, creating enmity and leading to their unforeseen descent into silence and the back of the curtain. In this article, we look at various individuals who indeed made it to the top, with unlimited time to interact with the President, only to become mute due to various reasons. Persis Namuganza Persis Namuganza, the state minister for lands, housing and urban development, has been one of the latest Museveni girls to face the wrath what she called jealous, backstabbing and enmity for hard work. The Member of Parliament for Bukono County in Namutumba district was censured in January by Parliament over what they […]

admin October 8, 2023

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Cabinet at crossroads: Museveni undecided as his ministers tear each other into pieces

KAMPALA: With speculation growing over an impending Cabinet reshuffle, President Yoweri Museveni could be keenly watching as rows erupt involving senior ministers and Generals. Two notable rows taking up most media space include the one where Security Minister Jim Muhwezi and his counterpart at the Internal Affairs docket Kahinda Otafiire clashed openly the implementation of the digital car plates by Joint Stock Company Ltd, a Russian company. In August, Otafiire and Muhwezi clashed over the project’s practicability and potential implications. Otafiire also alleged that the Russian company had failed due diligence checks after inspection by a team from the Uganda Police. Muhwezi claimed Otafiire was a liar whose ministry was deeply involved in the project planning and implementation. He also claimed the company had passed the diligence test. The multi-billion deal was okayed by the president in 2021 when he […]

admin October 7, 2023