First son and Commander of UPDF Land Forces Lt Gen Muhoozi is Uganda’s tweeting general. Some of his tweets have been described as controversial because of how much they touch on issues of diplomacy and security that serving officers of the national army and cautious politicians would rather keep to themselves. 

In 2017, social media was a wash with photos of a man who was captured kissing the shoe of Prophet Elvis Mbonye, a self-styled prophet known for his largely accurate prophecies on Uganda and the rest of the world. 

Minister Mao told the youths and other leaders present, who included Vice President Maj (Rtd) Jessica Alupo and Internal Affairs Minister Maj Gen (Rtd) Kahinda Otafiire, that the year 2031 might be the beginning of a new Uganda.

First son and Commander of UPDF Land Forces Lt Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba has said that he and his group will never allow singer and politician Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine to be Uganda’s President.

Sections of the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) have begun endorsing Gen Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni, the country’s president, as their candidate for the 2026 presidential election.

Allegations of ballot stuffing and other forms of vote rigging have marred the election of Ugandan representatives to the regional Parliament, the East African Legislative Assembly (Eala). 

Soldiers of the Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) on mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo have been vaccinated against the deadly Ebola Virus Disease (EVD), the Commander of the country’s armed forces has revealed. 

The Deputy speaker of Parliament Thomas Tayebwa has called upon government to increase the funding for public universities to cater for research as a way of creating and increasing expertise in Uganda.

Uganda’s President Gen Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni has described members of the European Parliament as ‘arrogant’ and ‘insufferable’, and told them they cannot lecture him on how to handle the country’s oil projects.