Uganda’s challenges which include youth unemployment, corruption and poverty among others have widely been blamed on the leaders. In a bid to provide solutions and lay a foundation for meaningful future leadership, a total of 200 youth leaders from all over the country have come together to forge a way forward in a 3-day National Students And Youth Leaders' Empowerment Summit held at Grand Global Hotel- Makerere. 

President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has attributed Uganda's flourishing Industrial sector to the good policy decisions made by the National Resistance Movement (NRM) government. 

President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has received credentials from nine (9) envoys, newly accredited to Uganda.

The envoys who included Ambassadors and High Commissioners from the Republic of Ethiopia, India, Belgium, Namibia, Malawi, Philippines, Mozambique, Brazil and Canada presented their credentials on Tuesday 22nd August 2023 at State House, Entebbe.

The Presidential Press Unit (PPU) wishes to inform the General Public that President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has signed nine (9) bills into law. 

The nine bills assented to, by the President are:

1. The National Sports Act, 2023

2. The Stamp Duty (Amendment) Act, 2023 

3. The Foreign Exchange (Amendment) Act, 2023

4. The Value Added Tax (Amendment) No. 2) Act, 2023

H.E Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has appealed to the members of the Afro-Arab Youth Council to promote politics of interest in order to maintain peace and stability among member countries.

“As a powerful youth group, you should strengthen that idea and spread it,” he said.

President Museveni made the remarks today while meeting a delegation from the Afro-Arab Youth Council at State Lodge-Nakasero.

President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has appealed to the youths to desist from embracing a wrong Ideology of sectarianism, religion and tribes and working for foreign interests.

“If you take that line, you will fail because I have been watching all these years many of the people who came in power at Independence were young people but because they did not address the issue of ideology, that is why we had so many problems in Uganda,” President Museveni said.

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President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has today presided over the swearing-in of 11 newly appointed High Court Judges at State House Entebbe.

President Museveni congratulated the new Judges and advised them to be transparent if they want to sustain their career.

President Yoweri Museveni has received a special message from the Prime Minister of Ethiopia, H.E Abiy Ahmed.

The message was delivered to the President by the Ethiopian envoy to Uganda, Ambassador Taye Arske Selassie, this afternoon at State House, Entebbe. 

The Deputy Commander of the Special Forces Command (SFC) Brig. Charity Bainababo has asked the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Martin Okoth Ochola to consider elevating the Police Presidential Guard (PPG) to a bigger unit to enable them to retain the promoted officers who have experience to serve the country better.

The PPG officers are drawn from the Uganda Police Force.