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US Visa | Green Card Electronic Diversity Visa Lottery 2019 Entries Now Open
Green Card Diversity Lottery 2019 — Due to a technical issue, the DV-2019 entry period that began on October 3 has been closed. Entries submitted during October 3-10 are not valid and have been excluded from the system; they will not count as a duplicate entry....
Age Limit Debate
Flashback | When The Proposed Bill on Age Limits was First Raised in 2016
Preamble — The article below was first published in The East African edition of Sunday September 18th 2016 when the issue of the proposed bill to remove the age limit was first raised. On September 14, 2016 parliament rejected a proposal to bring a Bill that wa...
Age Limit Proceedings Begin
The Observer | NRM MPs will not consult voters on age limit!
The Observer — Ruling party members of parliament will not consult their constituents on the controversial ‘age limit’ bill that seeks to lift the presidential age limits from the Constitution. Party chairman President Yoweri Museveni summoned the N...
Age Limit Removal Proceedings Begins
The Observer | Museveni, MPs plot age limit passage
The Observer — Behind closed doors at State House Entebbe, President Museveni has held back and forth meetings with his ruling party MPs to plan how to marshal their numbers in parliament for the passage of the age limit removal bill. Well-placed sources have t...
Actionaid NGO Closed
Actionaid NGO Closed | Ugandan Authorities Shut Down ActionAid’s Work, Freeze Bank Accounts
Press Release — On Thursday the Ugandan authorities closed down the bank accounts of ActionAid Uganda, preventing the organization from doing its vital work tackling poverty and injustice. The authorities also sent a letter to 25 other non-governmental organiza...
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US Visa | Green Card Electronic Diversity Visa Lottery 2019 Entries Now Open
Green Card Diversity Lottery 2019 — Due to a technical issue, the DV-2019 entry period that began on October 3 has been closed. Entries submitted during October 3-10 are not valid and have been excluded from the system; t... -
Flashback | When The Proposed Bill on Age Limits was First Raised in 2016
Preamble — The article below was first published in The East African edition of Sunday September 18th 2016 when the issue of the proposed bill to remove the age limit was first raised. On September 14, 2016 parliament rej... -
The Observer | NRM MPs will not consult voters on age limit!
The Observer — Ruling party members of parliament will not consult their constituents on the controversial ‘age limit’ bill that seeks to lift the presidential age limits from the Constitution. Party chairman ... -
The Observer | Museveni, MPs plot age limit passage
The Observer — Behind closed doors at State House Entebbe, President Museveni has held back and forth meetings with his ruling party MPs to plan how to marshal their numbers in parliament for the passage of the age limit ... -
Actionaid NGO Closed | Ugandan Authorities Shut Down ActionAid’s Work, Freeze Bank Accounts
Press Release — On Thursday the Ugandan authorities closed down the bank accounts of ActionAid Uganda, preventing the organization from doing its vital work tackling poverty and injustice. The authorities also sent a lett... -
Reuters | Soccer star Weah leads most counties in Liberia Presidential election vote
MONROVIA (Reuters) – Former soccer star George Weah leads in partial presidential election results in 11 of Liberia’s 15 counties, the electoral commission said on Thursday, after a vote meant to bring about the country... -
Opinion | Kadaga acted within provisions of Parliament rules of procedure – By Chris Obore
By Chris Obore — Former ambassador William G Naggaga wrote so many assumptions and falsehoods in Daily Monitor of October 9 regarding the events in Parliament and particularly Speaker Rebecca Kadaga. He said the situation... -
Denver Dispatch | Ugandans in Colorado Protest the Age Limit Removal From Uganda’s Constitution
Denver — The Ugandan Community in Denver, Colorado met on Sunday 7th October joining the many Ugandan diaspora communities in protest to the removal of article 102b from Uganda’s constitution — the final act t... -
Sunday Inspiration | Hezekiah Walker – Featuring “Every Praise”
Hezekiah Walker Lyrics Every praise is to our God Every word of worship with one accord Every praise every praise is to our God Sing hallelujah to our God Glory hallelujah is due our God Every praise every praise is to our God ... -
Age Limit Debate | President Museveni Responds to Hon. Kyagulanyi`s Statement(s)
Author President Yoweri Museveni — Again, I congratulate our young friend, the Hon. Kyagulanyi, Bobi Wine, for his recent elections in Kyaddondo East. I also notice that he is quite active in sending out messages ab... -
Opinion | Understanding the Museveni Trap By Moses Khisa
By Moses Khisa — Writing a newspaper column every week can get rather tiring, not so much for want of the energy to write as for a sense of deja vu feeling and emptiness of thinking. Over the last couple of weeks, with th... -
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Back by popular demand, “Two Mammograms for the price of One”. Please bring you Mother, Aunt, Sister, Girlfriend or Friend for a mammogram. Support each other in screening for Breast Cancer. We are offering this discount so... -
Opinion | It’s good for the age limit to be removed at gun point By Charles Onyango-Obbo
By CHARLES ONYANGO-OBBO — Last week in these pages, Makerere University law don Joe Oloka-Onyango writing about the military siege of the Uganda Parliament ahead of an expected move to amend the Constitution and remove th... -
Amb. Deborah Malac | Statement By The US Ambassador to Uganda on the Age Limit Debate
The issue of the presidential age limit is one for Ugandans to decide, and the Ugandan government is responsible for ensuring all Ugandans have the right to discuss this issue freely and without fear of intimidation. We are dis... -
Age Limit Debate | Opposition MPs decry ‘rape’ on Parliament
Opposition leaning Members of Parliament have condemned the ugly scenes at the floor of parliament on Wednesday afternoon after several legislators fought. Nile Post — Following a decision by the speaker Rebecca Kadaga to... -
The Observer | Presidential guards take over Uganda Parliament, arrest 27 MPs
The Observer — A joint force of presidential guards, the elite Special Forces Command (SFC) soldiers and police officers attached to parliament forcibly pulled out several legislators opposed to lifting the age limit from... -
Age Limit Debate | Chaotic MPs force Kadaga to postpone sitting – Daily Monitor
By Agencies — Speaker Rebecca Kadaga has adjourned the House sitting to 2 pm on Wednesday after Opposition legislators disrupted Igara West MP Raphael Magezi from moving a motion on removing the presidential age limit. Fo... -
Post Election Analysis | UNAA’s Free and Fairly Fraudulent Elections – By Daniel Kawuma
By Daniel Kawuma — After the announcement of the election results in Miami, as a candidate for UNAA President, my responsibility was to honor the will of the people and shake the hands of my opponent. That is the script I... -
Opinion | The Age Limit Debate, How will History Judge Us and Why not Call for Referendum Instead! By Ronnie Mayanja
Dear Readers, Recent developments at home oblige me to voice an opinion on the age limit debate –we are setting a bad precedent if we don’t build and protect our institutions. A constitution is the supreme law of th... -
Sekako | A New App Created to Provide a One Stop Platform for Ugandan Comedy Content!
What is Sekako? — Sekako is a new platform that seeks to spread a laugh through Ugandan comedy and movie content. When — Any time is Sekako time, when your sad, depressed, waiting, bored you can always use...
Developing Story | The Observer offices broken into again
Unknown people have broken into The Observer offices at Tagore Crescent, carrying away more than 20 desktop computers. They also made off with a yet-to-be established number of cameras, laptops, TV screen among other items. The...
Proof of Heaven | Harvard Neurosurgeon Confirms The Afterlife Exists – The Sixth Sense
By Steven Bancarz| Do we have a soul? Is there life after death? The afterlife is something that has been experienced by countless people since recorded history who have returned to tell their tales, with the most noteworthy ac...
Presidential Directive | Museveni deploys army to fight graft at Uganda Investment Authority
President Museveni has taken a leap of faith by deploying the military to fight reported graft in Uganda Investment Authority (UIA) and restore foreign investors’ confidence. Gen David Muhoozi, the Chief of Defence Forces, wi...
Obituary | Rotary remembers Sam Owori for his ‘Quiet Confidence,’ Integrity, and Friendship
By Ryan Hyland and Abby Breitstein — The Rotary flags in front of Rotary International World Headquarters in Evanston, Illinois, USA, and Rotary offices around the world fly at half-staff this week as friends and colleagu...
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