President Yoweri Museveni has arrived in Cape Town South Africa for the 28th World Economic Forum on Africa. He is accompanied by 1st Lady, Janet Museveni, who is Minister of Education and Sports.

The Forum’s deliberations will focus on inclusive growth as well as a shared future in the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

YOKOHAMA, JAPAN: President Yoweri Museveni has today held a bilateral meeting with his counterpart President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi of Egypt who is also the Chairman of the African Union at the Royal Yokohama pacific Hotel.

The two leaders who are in Japan to attend the TICAD7 conference discussed issues of mutual interest regarding the region and Africa.

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YOKOHAMA, JAPAN: Japanese businessmen under their High level business federation, the Keidanren, have expressed their interest to partner with Uganda companies and government and invest in agro-processing, construction, solar panel production, transportation and in medical equipment.

YOKOHAMA, JAPAN: President Yoweri Museveni has called on the Japanese private sector to partner with Uganda and commercialize banana flour production in saying this will promote food security for humanity.

President Museveni, PM Shinzo discuss infrastructure, funding

YOKOHAMA, JAPAN: President Yoweri Museveni has said Uganda will procure five more heavy-duty road units from Japan to improve urban infrastructure and facilitate trade and service delivery. 

President Yoweri Museveni has said that the National Resistance Movement (NRM) Government is committed to achieving 100% literacy levels in the country, adding that efforts towards that goal have already borne great strides with the current literacy rates now standing at 77% up from 43% in 1986.

“Literacy rates were very low. Those who could read and write when NRM took over were at about 43%. It is now at 77%,” he said.

President Yoweri Museveni has flagged off over 800 Ugandan athleteswho will represent the coutry in the Federation of East Africa Secondary Schools’ Games (FEASSSA) scheduled to take place from 15th to 25th August in the Northern Tanzanian City of Arusha.

President Yoweri Museveni has received and held a meeting with the executive officials of Bayport Financial Services Limited at State House, Entebbe with whom he discussed the contributions that the company has rendered to Uganda in the micro-finance services sector in the past 15 years it has operated in the country.

President Yoweri Museveni has received a special message from President Hage Geingob of Namibia who appreciated Mr. Museveni’s taking part in the recent Southern Africa Development Conference (SADC) in South Africa.

Namibia’s Deputy Prime Minister, Mr. Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, who is also his country’s International Relations and Cooperation Minister delivered the message to the President yesterday at Kisozi in Gomba District.

President Yoweri Museveni took off time today from his busy schedule of wealth and job creation sensitization tour of the Rwenzori Sub-Region in Western Uganda, to pray with the Christians of St. Charles Lwanga Catholic Parish, Maddu, Gomba District in the Central Region of Uganda. The Bishop of Kiyinda Mityana, Rt. Rev. Anthony Zzziwa, hosted the President and his wife.