Uganda Tourism Board launches 6th Pearl of Africa Tourism Expo
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POATE is a tourism exposition organized annually by the Uganda Tourism Board.
The launch of POATE 2021 taking place from April 23-25, 2021 is under the theme: “Restarting Tourism for Regional Economic Development.”
The decision to go virtual was not only influenced by the unique challenges posed by COVID-19, but it was also out of UTB’s desire to leverage the Internet to bring as many on board as possible.
Amidst optimism and rays of hope in reviving the tourism sector, the Uganda Tourism Board (UTB) officially launched the 6th Pearl of Africa Tourism Expo (POATE 2021) on March 10, 2021. It was the first-ever virtual tourism expo for Uganda as confirmed by Sandra Natukunda, Senior Public Relations Officer of UTB.
Daily Monitor
Saturday March 06 2021
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The ruling party has sent out teams to find out why President Museveni and its candidates performed poorly in the recently concluded election and how they can attract more support for the future.
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Different sources from within the NRM say President Museveni and the NRM secretariat have turned their focus on why support for the President drastically declined, especially Buganda and Busoga areas in the recent election and how to plug the holes.
President Museveni was declared the winner of the 2021 presidential elections with 6,042,898 votes, representing 58 per cent of the valid total votes cast, which is the lowest percentage win he has posted since 1996 when he first stood for re-election.
Daily Monitor
Sunday February 14 2021
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National Unity Platform’s Robert Kyagulanyi took the region with 437,059 votes against National Resistance Movement’s Yoweri Museveni’s 404,862. Mr Museveni won in only three out of the region’s 11 districts.
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One month ago, Busoga sub-region did what had until then been thought to be unthinkable – vote against ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) presidential candidate, Mr Yoweri Museveni.
The region had until January 14 been known to be a stronghold of both Mr Museveni and the NRM. That belief was born out of the fact that it has consistently been voting for Mr Museveni since 1996.
Daily Monitor
Monday December 28 2020
Hundreds of people cheer NUP presidential candidate Robert Kyaglanyi, aka Bobi Wine, after prayers at Our Lady of Sorrows Cathedral, Kitovu in Masaka City yesterday. PHOTO | DAVID LUBOWA
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Mr Paul Bukenya, the EC spokesperson, said campaign meetings in the said districts, which are considered to be registering high spread of the virus, had been suspended indefinitely starting December 26.
National campaigns end on January 12. Polling day is January 14.
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The Electoral Commission’s cancellation of campaigns in Kampala and Eleven other districts and cities at the weekend has provoked rage among voters and candidates in the respective areas.
Daily Monitor
Monday December 21 2020
On the eve of Uganda’s Independence in 1962, thieves broke into the embassies of the United States of America and several other foreign missions, but this was a strange kind of robbery. The only valuables they made off with were the flags of those nations.
The attacks were coordinated by Ally Muwabe Kirunda Kivejinja, a member of the Uganda People’s Congress (UPC) youth wing, who at the time was also a secretary at the party’s research bureau.
“After getting the certainty that the Ugandan flag was to be hoisted… Some of our youth clandestinely moved to the American embassy and the embassies of all nations that we considered to be enemies of Uganda and stole their flags,” he said.