For the last 32 years, residents of Butambala have watched successive cabinet appointments come and go without seeing one of their own named minister. The last person from Butambala to serve in cabinet was the late Abbey Kafumbe Mukasa, who was deputy minister of Finance before his death in 1994. Kafumbe had represented Butambala in…
There have been some shocks and surprises about the cabinet list announced by President Museveni on Tuesday. However, the inclusion of Adonia Ayebare as the new minister of Foreign Affairs may not have come as a surprise to those who have been watching Uganda’s diplomatic space for some time. For years, Ayebare has been one…
The reappointment of Dr Chris Baryomunsi to cabinet and his elevation to the Ministry of Health is a sharp rebuke to earlier social media assertions by Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba, the first son and CDF, that the Kinkiizi East MP would be excluded from the next cabinet. After the January 15 elections, Muhoozi engaged in a…
President Museveni has often found ways to cushion former speakers of Parliament after they left the country’s third most powerful office. That long-standing political tradition appears to have ended yesterday after he excluded former Speaker Anita Among from his new cabinet. The move that has fuelled speculation on social media that her fallout with the…
The reshuffle of Ruth Nankabirwa from the cabinet yesterday, as the minister of Energy, has brought to an end one of the longest uninterrupted ministerial careers of any individual in Uganda’s modern political history. She was appointed senior presidential advisor. Nankabirwa had served continuously as a minister since 1998, making her the longest-serving minister in…
