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Uganda’s tourism sector may be posting impressive numbers on paper, but beneath the glossy “Explore Uganda” billboards lies a troubling trail of gaps, missed targets and weak oversight, according to the December 2025 Auditor General’s report on the marketing and branding of tourism activities by the Ministry of Tourism Wildlife and Antiquities and the Uganda Tourism Board. The audit returned …

A businessman once seen as South Sudan’s next political kingmaker rose quickly through the ranks, only to fall just as fast. Dr. Benjamin Bol Mel’s journey from construc-tion magnate to vice president and senior party official shows how deeply politics, business, and personal loyalty remain connected in Africa’s youngest nation. From business to power Bol Mel started out in business, …

Post Views: 7 0-0x0-0-0# By Aggrey TwesigyeIn Mbararawww.mknewslink.com Three incumbent legislators who lost in the recent NRM party primaries have been duly nominated by the electoral commission to contest as independent candidates in the 2026 general elections. In Rwampara district, woman MP Molly Asiimwe Musiime secured her nomination as an independent candidate, declaring that her decision to seek re-election …

More than 210 Members of Parliament from the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) who lost in the party’s recent primaries have announced plans to contest as independent candidates, defying calls by the party secretariat to abandon their bids. The legislators, who addressed a press briefing on September 19, 2025, accused the NRM of conducting sham primaries riddled with vote rigging, …