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Uganda: Bobi Wine Disparages President Museveni's Statement
Observer, 7 October 2017
Kyadondo East MP Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine did not waste any time to respond to President Museveni's missive that he released yesterday. Read more »
Ugandan President, MP Bobi Wine Trade Blows
Kyadondo East MP Robert Kyagulanyi - also known as singer Bobi Wine - and President Yoweri Museveni have been issuing statements and counter-statements in what is being seen as a generational difference of ideas on how the country should be run.
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Uganda: Age Limit - President Museveni Responds to MP Bobi Wine
Observer, 7 October 2017
Below is an unabridged response from President Yoweri Museveni to Kyadondo East MP, Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine in regards to the age limit amendment and governance. Read more »
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Uganda: MPs With Private Bills Admit Defeat
Observer, 9 October 2017
After trying hard and failing to get their private member's bills tabled in parliament ahead of Raphael Magyezi's presidential age limits removal bill, MPs Sam Lyomoki, Barnabas… Read more »
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Uganda: I Can Withdraw the Age Limit Bill, Says MP Magyezi
Monitor, 9 October 2017
You have tabled a Bill that different people, including religious leaders, civil society and common people say is bad for the country. Read more »
Igara West MP Raphael Magyezi on the floor of Parliament during the first reading of the age limit bill.
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Uganda: Presidential Age Limit Battle Shifts to House Committee
Monitor, 8 October 2017
The battle over the removal of presidential age limits has now shifted to the Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee, with rival groups of MPs back to the drawing board to… Read more »
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Uganda: Are Ugandans Docile?
Independent (Kampala), 9 October 2017
Why last month's scuffles in parliament excited the public but did not lead to popular protests Read more »
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Uganda: Age Limit - the Angry Ugandans
Independent (Kampala), 9 October 2017
Why Besigye's army of rage is defeating Museveni Read more »
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Uganda: Let Religious Leaders Present Views to the Committee of Parliament
Monitor, 9 October 2017
The Daily Monitor of October 5, had a screaming headline: 'Removing age limit is treason - Odama'. This was in reference to a press release the previous day by religious leaders in… Read more »
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Uganda: Let's Scrap the Darn Age Limit and These Too
Monitor, 9 October 2017
Stockholm Syndrome, that stage where a hostage begins to feel closer to the hostage taker, is that where Uganda is at going by what the Opposition is saying? Me I don't know. I… Read more »
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Uganda: Why the Aga Khan Deserves Uganda's Highest Civilian Honour
Monitor, 9 October 2017
When he takes to the podium to be honoured today, it won't be by accident or even a miracle; it will be tribute to decades of work and contribution His Highness Prince Karim Aga… Read more »
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Uganda: Kadaga Could Have Averted the Chaos in Parliament
Monitor, 9 October 2017
I followed very closely the process of the drafting of the 1995 Constitution by the Constituent Assembly in 1994/1995, chaired by the late James Waphakabulo. Wapa, as he was fondly… Read more »
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Uganda: Age Limit - New Turning Point Beckons As Uganda Turns 55
Monitor, 9 October 2017
If the controversial Constitution Amendment Bill targeting to remove age limitations on the presidency is passed, President Museveni will have nothing in the Constitution to stop… Read more »
InFocus
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Robert Kyagulanyi, popularly known as Bobi Wine, has been arrested countless times and had grenades thrown at his house. Recently, the police and the immigration office have have ... Read more »
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In what may be the fastest movement of a bill, especially one presented by a private member, the Magyezi Bill has so far moved four critical steps in less than a week - from ... Read more »
