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35 years of NRA’s 10-Point Programme that never was Sunday May 09 2021 On Wednesday, May 12, Mr Museveni will be sworn in – chest thumping – claiming another NRA/NRM election victory, another ‘term’ for ‘securing’ your future but, false. He will almost certainly claim top marks for his so-called 10-Point Programme, a blue print – presented as panacea for our national challenges – yet equally false. Claiming that the previous post-independence governments were somehow responsib...

Follow us on WORLD Tibet has always been free: India needs to change the narrative in the ongoing LAC standoff talks – Part 2 May 1, 2021, 1:54 PM IST Dr. Maj Gen (Retd) Anil Kumar Lal is a Defence Analyst who has authored many path-breaking concepts on Nuclear and Space Warfare strategies. He feels that the future Military Forces would be dictated by a new concept of Strategic detterence which would be a combined effect of Nuclear and Space detterence. He is a third generat...

Under the programme, 150.23 crore saplings were planted across the country

Straight Talk Abdul Mannan Abdul Mannan 21st February will be observed throughout the world as the International Mother Language Day. In 1999 UNESCO recognized the day as an International Mother Language Day. The general consensus is that there are between six to seven thousand languages currently spoken around the world and around 50% to 90% of them will have become extinct by the end of this century. The UNESCO’s recognition came through intense lobbying with the help of Bangladesh governme...

UPDF, take hard look at 10-Point Programme Wednesday February 17 2021 Summary Our view:   For our leaders, this year’s national commemoration of Luwum Day, at State House Entebbe, can renew their solemn promise to secure lives of Ugandans and their property. Advertisement The current human rights breaches of abductions, torture and illegal detention put to shame the founding mission of the UPDF.  At inception, the National Resistance Army (NRA), the forerunner of the Uganda People’s Defen...

Daily Monitor Wednesday January 27 2021 Former Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi (2nd right) shares a light moment with National Resistance Movement (NRM) Secretary General Kasule Lumumba (left) and Minister for Presidency Esther Mbayo (right) during celebrations to mark the 35th anniversary of NRM Liberation Day at State House Entebbe on January 26, 2021. Summary The issue: NRM’s 35 years Our view: The architects of the Bush War should rethink their unique mission as self-professed compasses, to ...

Tofail Ahmed , one of the organisers of the movement, takes a trip down memory lane to reflect on the significance of this occasion in the history of our independence struggle.   How do you recall what happened on this day and in the days before and after that? I feel at once pained, because of all the sacrifices that went into making our independence struggle successful, and extremely proud, because of what we achieved in the end. In hindsight, it was—all of it—worth it. For me, personall...

The Ghana Girl Guides Association has unveiled a new national logo for its transformational programme in the lives of girls and young women across the country as part of the 100-year anniversary celebrations.

Daily Monitor Thursday December 24 2020 Mr President, much as you have registered multiple successes in implementing the 10-Point Programme over the years, there are some perennial failures that you need to urgently address for the greater benefit for our beloved country. Despite the fact that you deserve credit for successes in security, energy, and tourism, you deserve condemnation in equal measure for the failures in service delivery and abating corruption. This because the buck stops with ...

Daily Monitor Saturday December 19 2020 Summary The former Rakai District Woman MP was once a strong supporters of President Museveni. However, when she spoke out against the changing of term limits, she was fired. Advertisement Talking to former State Minister of Internal Affairs Sarah Kiyingi, you notice that she regrets ever venturing into politics. When she returned from the Netherlands in 1995, after living there for more than four years, running for political office was the last thing on ...