Tag: Museveni

Uganda protest organisers playing with fire, Museveni says

Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has warned protesters that they will be “playing with fire” if they press ahead with plans to stage an anti-corruption march to parliament on Tuesday. Young Ugandans have been organising the march on social media to demand an end to corruption in government. They have been partly inspired by their counterparts […]

Kneeling doctors ask Museveni to seek 7th term in 2026

A group of doctors drawn from the Uganda Medical Association (UMA) over the weekend were seen kneeling before long-time President Yoweri Museveni while pleading with him to contest for a seventh term. Led by their leader Samuel Odong Oledo the doctors who had attended a patriotism symposium in the capital, Kampala, knelt before the president, according […]

Museveni apologizes to Kenyans over son’s war tweets, explains why he got army promotion

Ugandan President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has apologized to Kenyans and the Kenyan government following a flurry of inflammatory tweets by his son General Muhoozi Kainerugaba. The long-serving Head of State appealed to Kenyans in a statement posted on his Twitter account to forgive the Ugandan nation at large for the controversial tweets posted by his […]

Museveni promotes son Muhoozi to General

Uganda President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has promoted his son Muhoozi Kainerugaba to the rank of General. Reports show that Muhoozi, who previously served as Chief of Land Forces, will be replaced by Maj Gen Muhanga Kanyanja. He will, however, retain his position as Senior Presidential Advisor in charge of Special Operations. Muhoozi sparks Twitter storm […]

Senator Cherargei wants Ugandan ambassador summoned over Museveni son’s war tweets

Nandi Senator Samson Cherargei has expressed concerns over a series of controversial tweets by Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni’s son, Muhoozi Kainerubaga, about Kenya. Kainerubaga, who serves as the commander of the land forces of the Uganda People Defence Forces (UPDF), sparked a storm on Twitter on Monday, October 3, after warning that he would only […]

Museveni orders security to crackdown everybody who shared his fake death claims

“We need to crack down on the people that are misemploying social media, including the Ugandans abroad. Many are now using it to spread baseless and tasteless news with total abandon. I call upon security to look into this. It must be stopped, get these people,” he noted.

Suluhu, Museveni sign deal to build the longest heated oil pipeline in the world at Ksh375.6 billion

The two countries entered a partnership to build a 1,443km (896 mile) oil pipeline to pump Uganda’s oil from the Albertine basin.