As the end-of year holiday season approaches, ordinary Baganda fear that the 2008 Christmas may be the very worst in recent memory.  It is becoming increasingly difficult to find a 20-30 year old Muganda with O-Level or A-Level qualifications who has job that pays them enough to eat two meals a day, in Mr. Museveni’s [...]

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.

According to a survey that was by commissioned by Uganda’s Inspector General of Government (IGG) and conducted by REEV Consult International, the Office of the President is neither among the most corrupt nor among the least corrupt in the country.  And the IGG’s office is one of the two least corrupt institutions. The survey report [...]

Namubiru Juliet Buganda Government’s official website reports that:

The minister for Information, Lukiiko and Cabinet Affairs in Buganda Government, Charles Peter Mayiga has urged people in Buganda to stop being cowards when it comes to issues concerning Buganda Kingdom.

The minister who was attending a Sunday service at Kitende Church of Uganda appealed to people to always come out openly to support Buganda’s developmental issues in order for the Kingdom to achieve its intended goals and objectives instead of shying away whenever Buganda is mentioned.

Mayiga also called on to people to work very hard in order to earn a living for their families which will lead to a stable and successful Buganda Kingdom.

Last weekend, Lubaga North MP did what no other Muganda politician has ever done in the history of Uganda. She told her political party, Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) and the rest of Uganda, in no uncertain terms, that she would put Buganda’s interests before those of FDC if the two conflicted. She did it publicly and in writing, through a press release (see Beti Kamya: Baganda Must Put Buganda First and Vote As a Block). And, curiously, it very much looks like Beti may be acting on the resolutions that were passed by Ttabamiruka ’09, the Baganda international conference which she attended in August this year.

Dear Maama,

In my last letter I told you that, most of us here believe that Obama is going to be bad news for African dictators. I also said that Kenya, Uganda and Zimbabwe are likely to be affected most because Barack is very well informed about the election rigging and civil rights abuses in these countries. Word from my smart Baganda friends here (Think Tank) is that the potential for Baganda to get Obama’s attention are even higher than first thought.

One of the important new things is that now, Mrs. Hillary Clinton is the person most likely to become secretary of state (American name for Minister of Foreign Affairs).

In a press release issued last Saturday, Beti Namisango Kamya, a leading Muganda politician has called on all Baganda to realize that they must put Buganda first to achieve the power necessary to influence their future in Uganda. The press release which was received by Buganda Post is in Luganda; the English version was not [...]

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.

An official of the Uganda Ministry of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has told this reporter that President Museveni is extremely frustrated by the damage that Betty Nambooze, Lubega Sseggona and others are doing on his reputation in Buganda through their CBS Radio programs. And he is frantically looking for  a legal excuse to close [...]