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The outgoing Namibian President Hifike-punye Pohamba has won the world’s most valuable individual award, the Mo Ibrahim prize for African leadership, according to the BBC. The $5m award is given each year to an elected leader who governed well, raised living standards and then left office. But the previous award […]

Two more people have been arrested in connection with the recent murder of prominent Muslim clerics and police officers in Busoga and other parts of the country. According to the police spokesperson Fred Enanga, the suspects were picked up from Kampala last week. He says thorough interrogation of the suspects […]

The new cabinet list continues to draw mixed reaction. The latest is former Vice President Prof. Gilbert Bukenya who describes the reshuffle as a mere excuse to reward the NRM loyalists. Yesterday’s reshuffle saw some prominent officials dropped and replaced by what Bukenya describes as loyalists. The most notable are […]

President Yoweri Museveni has made a major cabinet reshuffle dropping several ministers including the Attorney General and Finance Minister Maria Kiwanuka. Among those dropped is Abraham Byandala from works to minister without portfolio. John Byabagambi now takes over as the full cabinet minister for Works and Transport. Also notable is […]