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Rugunda: Opposition, Govt Should Listen to  Each Other

Marion Ayebazibwe Editor Picks, NATIONAL, POLITICS, Recommended

Uganda’s Prime Minister Dr Ruhakana Rugunda has told the national consultative forum for political parties and political organizations in the Kigezi sub-region that all political parties should exercise tolerance if they are to get government’s attention. The forum, organised by Uganda’s Electoral Commission,happened in Kabale Town in south-western Uganda on Monday. It

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Museveni Says the Opposition Wants to Fail His Govt

Don Atungisa Editor Picks, NATIONAL, POLITICS, Recommended

President Yoweri Museveni told a campaign rally at Pajule Primary School in Lapul Sub-county, Pader District on Tuesday that opposition politicians wanted his government to fail by pressurising him to do many things at once. “These people… Opposition, they don’t want planning, they want okutomera [crash] , they want us [government]

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Leader of Opposition: “We are Not Government’s Enemies”

Samuel Kamugisha Editor Picks, Main Story, NATIONAL, POLITICS

Leader of the Opposition in Uganda’s Parliament has told a seminar of African opposition parties in Accra, Ghana, that opposition politicians are government’s partners – not enemies. Winnie Kiiza explained that opposition played an advisory role and were a government in waiting. “I look at someone who advises me as their friend;

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How 37 Forgotten EALA Losers Performed: Five Candidates Got No Vote

Samuel Kamugisha Main Story, POLITICS

When Uganda’s Parliament picked the nation’s nine representatives to regional assembly, the East African Legislative Assembly, all the eyes were on the winners and one loser: opposition strongwoman Ingrid Kamateneti Turinawe. The winners were: former internal affairs minister Rose Akol; former Kakuuto County MP Mathias Kasamba; policy analyst Paulo Mwasa Musamali,

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