KAMPALA — President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has granted a presidential pardon to city businessman Muhammad Ssebuwufu, the proprietor of Pine Car Bond, who was convicted in 2019 over the 2015 kidnap and murder of businesswoman Betty Donah Katusabe. Ssebuwufu was sentenced to life imprisonment by the High Court in Kampala after being found guilty of…
President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni appoints renowned journalist Alan Kasujja as the new head of Uganda Media Centre, marking a major move in the country’s media and government leadership. According to the letter addressed to the Chief of Defence Forces, Gen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba, the president referred to correspondence dated 27 November 2025 concerning proposed changes at…
President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has called upon the immediate cancellation of all land titles in the Kitubulu Central Forest Reserve, ordered a stop to tree cutting, and admitted that earlier approvals for a mall and mini city were based on wrong information. In a letter dated December 23, 2025, addressed to Water and Environment Minister…
H. E. Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has fulfilled his pledge to strengthen local governance with the handover of 176 brand-new vehicles worth UGX 35.2 billion to local government leaders across the country. However, these vehicles were officially handed over at Kololo Ceremonial Grounds to 135 District Chairpersons, 10 City Mayors, and 31 Municipal Leaders, in a…
News reaching our media team confirms that His Excellency Gen. Yoweri Kaguta Museveni swears in eleven judges of the High Court and appoints three new registrators. However, the confirmations of the appointments were signed by the president on August 24, 2025. The judges, who were initially appointed in 2023 on a two-year acting basis, have…
General Muhoozi is expected to attend the Museveni – US talks to clarify on what went wrong on both sides to solve on what went wrong President Museveni is scheduled to meet US Ambassador William Popp to iron out diplomatic unease spat onto the table by a top official of the Ugandan government. Thursday’s meeting…
The NRM chairperson, President Museveni, has ordered the government chief whip to advertise all sectoral committee positions after dropping all current committee leaders. The CEC meeting that was chaired by the Party’s National Chairman, President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, on June 18, 2024, resolved to remove all the chairpersons and deputy chairpersons of the committees of…
President Museveni has announced a financial injection of Shs1.2 billion to support savings and credit cooperative organizations (Saccos) specifically working with disadvantaged youth residing in slum areas. Additionally, through the financial boost, it is anticipated that the youth Saccos will be able to provide access to affordable loans, which can be utilized for various income-generating…
North Korea is set to close its embassy in Uganda, Ambassador Jong Tong Hak has revealed. In a courtesy call to President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni at State House Entebbe, Hak informed him that North Korea has taken a strategic measure to reduce the number of embassies in Africa and Uganda, inclusive, in order to increase…
The former Senior Presidential Press Secretary, Joseph Tamale Mirundi, has claimed that his former boss, Gen. Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, stands no chance of winning the leader of the National Unity Platform (NUP), Robert Kyagulanyi, in a free and fair election. The political analyst made this statement over the weekend via a local YouTube media channel…
