President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni is today expected to deliver the State of the Nation Address (SONA) at the Kololo...

“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.

“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.

Burundi’s President Évariste Ndayishimiye has praised President Yoweri Museveni’s role in promoting regional peace and stability across the Great Lakes region, while Museveni used his inauguration speech to warn against corruption and call for wealth creation.

Beyond the political symbolism of another presidential swearing-in, Museveni’s “Kisanja No Sleep” message signals a strategic shift toward household-level economic participation, placing wealth creation, productivity, and regional market integration at the center of Uganda’s next development phase.

Uganda also welcomed Algeria’s parliamentary leader Azouz Nasri, representing President Abdelmadjid Tebboune, alongside the first-ever delegation from Turkmenistan to attend a Ugandan presidential inauguration.

Beyond the ceremony, the roadmap to May 12 reflects a broader effort by government to reinforce political continuity, national unity, and public confidence positioning the inauguration not merely as a constitutional event, but as a symbolic reset for Uganda’s next phase of socio-economic transformation.

Thirty-three distinguished Ugandans will be honored with national medals during the 40th anniversary of the National Resistance Movement/Army (NRM/A)...