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24 May '26
NRM aspirants for Speaker and Deputy Speaker withdrew from the races, leaving Oboth Oboth and Tayebwa as the party’s consensus candidates.All National Resistance Movement (NRM) aspirants for Speaker and Deputy Speaker of Parliament have stepped down in favour of Jacob Oboth Oboth and Tho
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24 May '26
Hon. Jalameso said he did not just trounce Hon. Obua as an NRM flag bearer but doubly, being the Chief Whip of the ruling party and the Vice Chairperson for the Northern region.“My victory was God planned as he used his people to raise me from grass to grace. My Opponent Obua made a big
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24 May '26
President Museveni and the Chief Justice will on Monday preside over the opening sitting of Uganda’s 12th Parliament, where Members of Parliament are expected to elect a new Speaker and Deputy Speaker.According to the official order paper, the First Meeting of the First Session of the 12
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23 May '26
Laroo-Pece legislator also Democratic Party president General Norbert has been locked out of the Speakership race by the NRM party after it opened expression of interest for Speaker and Deputy Speaker of the 11th parliament.The party’s Apex organ Central Executive Committee sitting today
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23 May '26
confidential dossier pieced together by covert intelligence shows that State actors put Anita Among under surveillance as early as 2021, when she was Deputy Speaker of Parliament.The voluminous collection of documents, a copy of which Weekend Monitor has seen, discloses that “a reliable
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23 May '26
Ronald Balimwezo Nsubuga was officially sworn in as the new Lord Mayor of Kampala on May 20, 2026, ushering in a new political era at City Hall after the end of Erias Lukwago’s 15-year dominance of the capital’s top political office.The swearing-in ceremony took place at Kampala Capita
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21 May '26
Uganda prepares for leadership elections in the 12th Parliament, Deputy Speaker Thomas Tayebwa and his family have recorded a series of notable developments that are drawing public attention within political and diplomatic circles.In a rapid sequence of events, Tayebwa’s wife, Anita Ruku
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21 May '26
According to rumors from within Statehouse, President Museveni has cancelled plans of deploying defeated Mawokota South legislator Yusuf Nsibambi in his government offices because of his past dirty deals.The detailed warning was in a dossier from intelligence organizations led by spys in I
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21 May '26
JohnMary Ssebuwufu has been elected Speaker of the Kampala Capital City Authority Council after defeating independent candidate Ali Kalule in a closely contested vote held at City Hall. Ssebuwufu won 18 votes against Kalule’s 16, with one ballot declared invalid, following a tense but orderly e
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21 May '26
The ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) party has suffered a setback in the Rukungiri District speakership elections after independent candidate Albert Ahabwe, popularly known as Rwamugata, defeated former Speaker James Turyamuboona. Ahabwe, who represents Buyanja Sub-county, secured 21 vot