Shared Nile Roots Anchor Uganda-Ethiopia Defense Dialogue As Gen MK Hosts Addis Envoy.
With that framing, Uganda’s Chief of Defense Forces (CDF) Gen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba made the remark as he welcomed Ethiopian Ambassador Etsegenet Bezabih Yimenu to the Special Forces Command Headquarters in Kampala. Joined by Political‑Affairs Head Robel Admassu, Defense Attaché Col. Yirga Gebremariam and deputy Col. Tesfaye Guta, Yimenu met Kainerugaba who doubles as the Senior Presidential Advisor for Special Operations...
Uganda Human Rights Commission & Sensitize Uganda Forum Pushes Journalists Safety Ahead of 2031 General Elections, Says an Unexamined Election Is Not Worth the Name.
, “An unexamined life is not worth living,” a famous maxim by classical Greek philosopher Socrates(470-399BC), who told Athens’ jury in 399 BC, insisting that scrutiny of self and society was the core of civic duty. This dictum is recorded by Socrates’ student, Plato, whose Apology was his version of the speech Socrates gave at his trial, defending philosophy until the...
Backpack Instruments Break JRRH’s Brain-Injury Death Chain As Progressive Basoga Aim For Full UGX 200M Set To End Fatal Jinja-Kampala Runs.
Chinese philosopher Laozi, writing in the Tao Te Ching (an ancient Chinese text) 2,400 years ago counselled that “a journey of a thousand li starts beneath one’s feet”. Aggrey David Kibenge, the Permanent Secretary Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development (GLSD)invoked that line Monday March 16 as he handed Jinja Regional Referral Hospital (JRRH) its first neurosurgery kit: an...
Uganda Eyes ROTC-Style Programme Over Saturday MK-Flynn Serena Kigo Dinner.
Relationships matter when you are in trouble, you do not want to build them in a moment of crisis”, US’s visiting military officer Lt General Michael Flynn told his Ugandan host, the Chief of Defense Forces (CDF) and Senior Presidential Advisor (SPA) on Special Operations, General Muhoozi Kainerugaba (MK), on Saturday evening at a dinner at Serena Hotel Kigo. During...
From DIA Director to SFC Guest: Gen Flynn Meets Gen MK in Entebbe As the US Veteran Praises Uganda’s Military Leadership, Bookending 33-Year Career.
This Saturday March 14, Lt Gen Michael Flynn met Uganda’s Chief of Defense Forces and Senior Presidential Advisor for Special Operations, Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba popularly known as MK. The meeting took place at the Special Forces Command headquarters in Entebbe. Gen Kainerugaba welcomed the visiting military veteran and scholar to Uganda and provided him with an overview of the UPDF's military...
From Newsroom To Uganda Human Rights Commission: Rosemary Kemigisha Describes Journalists As Human Rights Defenders, Urges Duty Bearers To Protect Them.
“When the microphone dies, democracy coughs,” Senior Human Rights Officer attached to the Uganda Human Rights Commission (UHRC) Ms. Rose Mary Kemigisha told a post‑election dialogue organized by Sensitive Uganda and the UHRC at the Source of the Nile Hotel in Jinja City. Now, several years when she covered Uganda’s contested polls, Kemigisha fondly called RMK or simply Kem by peers...
MOVE BY SUNDAY OR PAY FROM MONDAY-Jinja’s Bus and Taxi Operators Face Lock-out As Town Clerk Godfrey B. Kisekka Flexes Muscles to Face Off with Matatu, Kanyama Boys.
“Order is not oppression—it’s breathing space,” a Jinja shopkeeper muttered as Town Clerk Godfrey B. Kisekka releases another circular rippling through council corridors and streets. The latest PUBLIC NOTICE orders buses and taxis off streets and roadsides to the gazetted Kutch Road Park by Sunday 22 March 2026 or face forceful enforcement from Monday 23rd March. “at your cost, peril and embarrassment,” it warns, with copies to...
VP Jessica Alupo Launches Uganda’s first Migration Policy , Eyes Growth Through Safe Coordinated Flows.
“No nation grows by standing still”, Uganda’s Vice President HE Maj (Rtd) Jessica Alupo invoked that spirit as she launched the country’s first National Migration Policy in Kampala, a Cabinet‑approved framework to steer internal, regional and international flows toward poverty reduction and Vision 2040. The policy, unveiled under the banner “Harnessing Migration for Development through Inclusive and Coordinated Governance,” marries security, labour, health, education...
Charity Begins At Home-Jinja RCC Gulume Asks Ugandan Journalists To Market Country Positively For Posterity, Warns Against Copying Fly-In Reporters With Ulterior Agenda.
Jinja RCC Richard Gulume Balyainho opens his remarks with “charity begins at home, so does patriotism”, tying to 17th-century Sir Thomas Browne’s line to his call to Ugandan journalists to look after their own country first. Speaking Thursday at a one‑day regional post‑election dialogue at Hon. Daudi Migereko’s Source of the Nile Hotel in Jinja City, Gulume said “A house...
KCB Profit Climbs to KSH 68.4 Billion, Assets Hit KSH 2.15 Trillion As Regional Units Power Record Year.
NAIROBI—The Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB) Group PLC announced on March 11, 2026 that it recorded KSh 68.4 billion in profit after tax for the year ended December 2025, an 11 percent rise powered by loan‑book growth, higher net interest income and tighter cost control. The board proposed a final dividend of KSh 3 per share—subject to shareholder approval—on top of the KSh 4 interim payout made in November 2025,...
