According to a news report on the Buganda Kingdom website Buganda citizens from Bugerere county who are called Banyala visted with the Katikkiro of Buganda, Owek. JB Walusimbi in his offices at Bulange Mengo on Friday afternoon. The report adds that they “distanced them-selves from the Ssaabanyala institution. They emphasized that the institution is being forced on to them by individuals who have their own selfish needs and that their head has always been known as Nkojjo who is answerable to the Kabaka of Buganda and not to any one else.

“The group went ahead to say that, they also have a clan leader called Nsamba Fred and said that they will always oppose the Ssabanyala institution.

“The Katikkiro later promised them that he will work hand in hand with other Kingdom officials to further look into their concerns which he said should be not mixed with the Buluuli issues.”

According to President Museven’s minister of health, Dr. Stephen Malinga, failure by major donor countries to adequately fund population programs is the reason why countries like Uganda have poor population policies. Dr. Malinga unleashed his attack on Uganda’s donor when he was closing an international conference on population and development which ended on November 25, 2008. The conference was held at the Imperial Royale Hotel in Kampala and attended by delegates from 25 countries.

Dr. Malinga’s donor bashing did not go down well with some of the attendees. When asked for a reaction by this reporter, one Uganda delegate said that it was embarrassing that the Uganda minister of health truly thinks that foreign countries have to give him money to formulate effective population policies.

Accoring to a press release by Kampala Ultimate Frisbee Club they will be hosting a charity tournament on Sunday November 30th 2008 (9am) at Makerere University Sports Ground, Kampala. It is expected that approximately 8 teams will participate.

A raffle of great prizes will be held during the tournament to raise funds for Dwelling Places. Dwelling Places works to rescue, rehabilitate, reconcile and resettle street children with their families. They speak out for children at risk – informing, motivating and equipping local families and communities to promote positive change in the Ugandan society. More information on Dwelling Places can be found at found at www.DwellingPlaces.org.

Ultimate Frisbee is a fast-paced, limited-contact team sport played with a flying disc (Frisbee). There is no physical contact and the players may not run while holding the disc.

A scout group in the UK has received a generous contribution from the Institute of Commercial Management (ICM) to help reach its fundraising target of £100,000 – all in aid of helping the scouts’ Ugandan counterparts.

According to a press release by ICM, the Nile 2010 trip to the Jinja, Uganda, is the biggest expedition of any scout group in the English town of Bournemouth so far. It will be made in 2010 by a group of more than 30 youngsters from 38th Bournemouth Scouts & Avon Explorers Group based in Winton and Iford.

The scouts will undertake youth work with Ugandan children, will camp with the Ugandan Scout Association and work on local development projects – including the building of a vocational training centre with the help of a brick-building machine.

One of Africa’s most talented, enduring and famous singing stars is dead. Miriam Makeba who was 76 years old, passed away overnight after performing at a concert in Italy on Sunday. According to news wire services, Makeba collapsed as she was leaving the stage at a concert in support of Roberto Saviano, an author who has received death threats after he wrote about Italian organized crime. She was taken to a private clinic near Naples where she died of apparent cardiac arrest.

In mid-October 2008 Makeba participated in Kampala’s first jazz festival where she performed alongside Baganda and Israeli bands. Because she disembarked the plane in a wheel chair there were concerns that she might not be able to entertain her fans.

According to investigations by this reporter , the head of the Baganda Mmamba clan never accepted a Mulugwaala into his clan as reported by a Uganda’s government newspaper.  A mutaka (elder) in the Mmamba clan told this reporter that, although he did not want to publically attack the Mmamba clan administration, he had to clear [...]

Prime Minister Prof Apollo Nsibambi of Uganda shocked his family and Baganda, in general, when he disowned his supposed cultural norms and declared a daughter his heir (musika). Nsibambi, who is reported to be fighting a bout of severe depression, chose a conference on population policy at Sheraton Kampala to declare his daughter, Rhoda, his [...]

According to sources close the family of Dr. Kibirige Ssebunya, the former professor of Agriculture at Makerere University and now Museveni’s state minister for agriculture, is gravely sick. The family source told this reporter that Ssebunya is suffering from cancer of the tongue and throat which was caused by years of heavy smoking and drinking. Ssebunya has been known to make speeches as government functions while totally drunk.

The late Kyabazinga of Busoga who died on September 1, 2008 will be given a state funeral, the government of Uganda has announced. Yesterday, the Uganda Parliament paid tribute to the Kyabazinga of Busoga, Henry Wako Muloki, for his contributions to Uganda. Uganda government has declared the burial date, Monday, September 8, 2008 a public [...]

The Kyabazinga of Busoga, Henry Wako Muloki is dead. The 87 year old monarch died yesterday of cancer of the esophagus and the spinal cord at Mulago Hospital, Kampala. The cancer, which troubled the Kyabazinga for about 10 years, has kept him in and out of hospitals in Germany, India and Uganda.
Muloki gained the Busoga the [...]