The week in Pictures

President Museveni gave a ringing endorsement to under fire Gen Kale Kayihura, praising his work despite the police chief facing criminal court summons initiated through private prosecution over police brutality.

“People are attacking Kale (Kayihura), Kale has done a good job; he stopped fujo; because people wanted to bring fujo to disrupt business. If you have fujo, you will not have wealth.”

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Buddu players walk away with the trophy in protest. Photo by Brian Mugenyi

Buddu County players walked away with the Masaza cup trophy after rejecting meagre allowances given to them by the team's technical committee .Some claimed they had been given Shs15,000 while others received Shs200,000 yet they had been promised Shs1m each for beating Gomba team.

An Injured student of Jinja College is helped by colleagues. Photo by Denise Edema.

Jinja College students will do their end of term II exams under tight police security, Daily Monitor has learnt.
This is meant to nip in bud fears of a looming strike following dissatisfaction by the students on how the school is being managed by the head teacher, Mr Mathias Isabirye.
The students are unhappy with the management for failing to fix the school entertainment facility, internet and phones yet they are charged expensively for all that.
Coupled with the unprofessional conduct exhibited by some teaching staff and an underhand method in which the head teacher is employing to manage the affairs of the boys’ secondary school resulted into the students taking the law into their own hands.

Empty seats as Supreme Court reads out full verdict in Mbabazi Vs Museveni poll petition. Photo by Dominic Bukenya.


Empty seats as Supreme Court reads out full verdict in Mbabazi Vs Museveni poll petition
Unlike in the previous proceedings in the poll petition in which former Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi was challenging the victory of President Museveni being over crowded, the court room on Friday was scarcely occupied by the litigants.
The handful of people in the court room were mainly the lawyers of President Museveni, Mr Mbabazi, Electoral Commission, Attorney General and journalists.
No members of the general public or any party supporters of Museveni’s NRM or Mbabazi’s Go forward were in attendance.

Intern doctors protest at the Ministry of Health in Kampala on Thursday. Mobile Photo by Lubowa Abubaker

Intern Doctors at the different government hospitals are protesting against a proposal by government to scrap the allowance given to them during their one-year training period.

Intern doctors are entitled to a monthly payment of Shs600, 000, a rate fixed last year after a reduction from the initial Shs800, 000.

The 6th Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD) has opened in Nairobi, Kenya with a call by the Japanese Prime Minister Chinzo Abe for Africa to be given a permanent slot on the United Nations Security Council. President Yoweri Museveni is among the several heads of state attending the conference that is taking place in Africa for the first time since its inception in 1993. The conference is held under the theme “Partnership for shared prosperity”.

Meanwhile, African leaders meeting in the Kenyan capital Nairobi, on Friday agreed to use President Museveni’s paper on “bottlenecks facing Africa’s development” as a blue print to drive the conversation on the continent’s problems.

Marathoners at the Rotary Cancer Run dance away. Photo by Micheal Kakumirizi

Rotary Cancer Run 5 happened on sunday at Kololo Grounds from 7:00am.The Rotary Cancer Run is focused on raising money needed to equip the Cancer Ward at Nsambya Hospital with a linear accelerator. The linear accelerator, worth $4million, is a cancer treatment machine that offers a safer alternative where cancerous cells are destroyed without affecting the surrounding tissue.