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We want a Uganda vs Museveni contest, says Bobi Wine
Kyadondo East MP and leader of the People Power movement Robert Kyagulanyi, also known as Bobi Wine, has declared interest in running for...
Jun 22, 2020
The Iron Lady of Uganda and the Pensioner President
In February, Ugandan security agencies failed once again to exorcise the revolutionary spirit of Stella Nyanzi, one of Africa’s most...
Jun 19, 2020
Hell’s angels await Uganda’s corrupt; when do they arrive?
Apart from invoking the ghosts of 1986, the thing that President Museveni never tires of is fulminating against the corrupt. In the three...
Jun 16, 2020
How Ugandan feminists make themselves heard
Asking nicely will not stop sexism, some say Samantha mwesigye, a Ugandan lawyer, used to take offence when people called her a feminist....
Jun 5, 2020
Ugandan security teams have killed six people in COVID-19 operations
Six lives have been lost in the hands of security agencies implementing COVID-19 guidelines over the last 75 days when the country was...
Jun 4, 2020
Uganda: 2 MPs detained for leading COVID-19 protest
Ugandan police on Monday arrested two lawmakers for allegedly mobilizing protesters in order to demand the closure of a border town with...
Jun 3, 2020
Police Personally Liable for Rights Abuses
It would be difficult to overstate the potential importance of a case before the High Court in Uganda, involving at least 13 applicants...
Jun 1, 2020
'I realised my body was burning': police brutality in Uganda lockdown
In her small home in Gulu, northern Uganda, Alanyo Joyce dabs at her bare breasts. In some areas, pink and oozing, the skin has been...
May 28, 2020
Uganda detains prominent academic protesting coronavirus lockdown
Ugandan police on Monday arrested prominent academic Stella Nyanzi, a vocal critic of President Yoweri Museveni, for allegedly inciting...
May 19, 2020
To vote or not to vote? That is the question.
Ordinarily, when a strongman postpones or cancels an election, activists, campaigners and observers cry foul. Casting your ballot is the...
May 18, 2020
Ugandan Civil society plea; 'We want transparency, not graft-laced debts'
The civil society in Uganda is demanding transparency in the spending of Covid-19 loans to avoid loading taxpayers with...
May 18, 2020
Police stopping Bobi Wine Kyarenga concert was wrong, court rules
The High Court in Kampala has ruled that the police's move to stop the Kyarenga extra concert in which presidential hopeful Robert...
May 15, 2020
"Madness" to hold Uganda vote if virus persists - Museveni
Uganda’s long-serving President Yoweri Museveni has said it would be wrong to hold a presidential election expected for early next year...
May 13, 2020
Kadaga’s COVID-19 ‘drug’ fiasco takes new twist as police summons whistleblower
Uganda’s Covid-19 ‘drug’ fiasco has taken a new twist with Mr Derrick Kirunga, the man who first blew the whistle alerting Ugandans that...
May 12, 2020
Uganda Urged To Drop Charges Against 19 Homeless Youth
Uganda should drop the charges against 19 people arrested while seeking refuge in a shelter for homeless youth, Human Rights Watch said...
May 12, 2020
Uganda's Parliament Speaker Wants Torture Investigated
Rebecca Kadaga, Uganda’s Speaker of Parliament in a sharp rebuke to the country’s military ruler Gen. Yoweri Museveni has called for an...
May 6, 2020
Whose interests does the Ugandan embassy in China serve?
In the wake of state-inspired sanctions that sparked off xenophobic campaigns against Africans in China’s city of Guangzhou, I was not...
May 6, 2020
Journalism without fear or favour — that’s easier said
By Bernard Tabaire In times of crisis such as the Covid-19 pandemic now obtaining, you want accurate information to flow. You, therefore,...
May 4, 2020
Global Demand For Museveni To Investigate Torture Of Zaake
Ugandan member of Parliament Zaake, victim of torture by dictator Museveni, is on his hospital bed. Demands for an investigation by...
May 4, 2020
19 Uganda LGBT Members Denied Bail After Public Gathering Arrest
By Halima Athumani A court in Uganda this week rejected bail for 19 members of the LGBT community who were arrested for gathering in...
May 1, 2020
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