“Alliance does not mean I cannot field a candidate. When I choose to field a candidate, I will field my candidate and I do not need permission,” Akena said.

Regional health experts say East African governments are increasingly treating epidemic preparedness as both a public health and economic security priority.

Security agencies say the operation forms part of wider efforts to dismantle urban criminal networks and restore public confidence in Mityana Municipality.

“I don't want to hear that there is poverty in homesteads that have land and yet money is there at the parish level. If you are a minister and I come to your village and people are still suffering, I will sack you. I want to inform everybody that I have been monitoring and I don't want to embarrass mature people. The money is there on the ground; let's use it to get our people out of poverty,” Museveni said.

From Rural Tororo to Uganda’s Top Parliamentary Office Freshly elected Speaker of Uganda’s 12th Parliament, Jacob Marksons Oboth-Oboth has emerged...

The decisive victories reaffirm the dominance of the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) in Uganda’s parliamentary leadership as the country ushers in a new legislative term.

“With trailblazers like YPA, our young people can create millions of jobs and opportunities back home for themselves rather than flock out of the country to work as maids and offer unskilled labour in what are sometimes indecent and very dehumanizing conditions abroad,” Museveni said.

“Mr. Mwenda, thank you for declaring me senile and incapable of judging right. You will, however, discover that at 82, I am still able to defend Uganda and myself with the Bible, the AK-47 and the pen,” Museveni said.