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 Uganda’s president-elect Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni and his team of close and trusted advisors are on a mission to identify men and women that will be named cabinet ministers and junior ministers (ministers of state) in coming weeks. The 81-year-old, who will have ruled Uganda for 45 years by the end of his new term, may look at some old and experienced hands that have previously been in cabinet. In the second part of our series on Cabinet Fever 2026, The Pearl Times’ Samuel Kamugisha looks at ex-ministers Museveni is likely to appoint to his cabinet for 2026-2031.

Ugandan ‘gay Tiktoker’ Ken Mukalakasa, who was filmed sodomizing a boy has surrendered to Minister Balaam Barugahara and apologized. Minister Balaam Barugahara said security officers had…

Former Makerere University vice chancellor and 2016 presidential candidate Prof Venansius Baryamureeba has trashed Dr Lawrence Muganga’s one laptop per child proposal. Prof Baryamureeba is the chairman board of directors of Universal Technology & Management University while Dr Muganga is the vice chancellor of Victoria University.

Independent MPs will meet Museveni at Kyankwanzi, speaker of parliament and ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) second national vice chairperson Anita Among has revealed.

The ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) has started on a process to choose flagbearers for the EALA MP by-elections. The party’s Electoral Commission has issued a…

The Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development has released the salary and grading structure showing the juicy salaries of employees for Uganda’s externally funded projects in 2026. The structure also includes job descriptions for Uganda’s Externally Funded Projects in 2026.

Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu aka Bobi Wine’s comrade has been detained in Zimbabwe. Bobi Wine, the Ugandan opposition leader, has expressed solidarity with his comrade Tendai Biti, a human rights lawyer and politician in Zimbabwe, who was detained alongside other freedom fighters for resisting attempts to extend the presidential term to seven years and restrict the election of the President to members of Parliament only.

First son and chief of defence forces (CDF) Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba has reacted on Bobi Wine’s Capitol Hill engagements. 

First son, chief of defence forces (CDF) and Patriotic League of Uganda (PLU) chairman Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba has assigned more NRA-like numbers to allied Museveni ministers and MPs.