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Uganda's Opposition Leader Reported Tortured by Police

An opposition member of parliament was reportedly tortured after security forces arrested him for distributing food to constituents on...

Apr 29, 2020

Uganda Is Using Coronavirus Rules To Raid An LGBTQ Shelter And Jail Residents

Uganda is using social distancing rules as a reason to detain 19 people for a month without access to lawyers, following a raid on an...

Apr 29, 2020

Uganda's opposition presidential hopeful says allied lawmaker tortured, blinded

Ugandan opposition presidential candidate Bobi Wine accused the police on Monday of torturing and blinding one of his allies, shortly...

Apr 28, 2020

Uganda and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un health fears: focus on future relationship

Reports that North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un is in critical condition after undergoing heart surgery create uncertainty for Uganda,...

Apr 24, 2020

The torment of Ugandan writers, and Yoweri Kaguta’s last chapter

In these coronavirus-troubled times, you would think the Uganda state has no time for wanton repression, but apparently it has. On April...

Apr 23, 2020

Children, women casualties of Uganda's coronavirus transport ban

Sitting outside her grass-thatched house, in a lush part of the northern Ugandan countryside, Jeanette Aromorach described how her son...

Apr 22, 2020

AfDB places Chinese Zhongmei Engineering Group Limited on non-debarment for fraudulent practice

The African Development Bank Group on 17 April 2020, announced a 12-month conditional non-debarment of Zhongmei Engineering Group...

Apr 20, 2020

Tycoon Abid Alam sent to jail in Mubende land wrangle fallout

The Buganda Road Court in Kampala has remanded city tycoon Abid Alam of Alam Group to prison as the State House Anti Corruption Unit...

Apr 17, 2020

Ugandan politician Bobi Wine to airlift mistreated Africans out of China

Uganda politician, musician, and philanthropist, Bobi Wine, has partnered with Neil Nelson, co-founder of Atlanta Black Star, to fly...

Apr 16, 2020

Food rations to 1.4 million refugees cut in Uganda due to funding shortfall

Food rations have been cut to more than 1.4 million vulnerable refugees in Uganda by the World Food Programme (WFP) because of...

Apr 15, 2020

Corrupt border officials face murder charges

Uganda’s neighbours; Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, DR Congo and South Sudan have all registered more than 300 combined cases of COVID-19....

Apr 15, 2020

How Covid-19 has exposed weak governance of Uganda

The news of the arrest of senior officials from the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) was not surprising to me. Neither do I think it...

Apr 13, 2020

COVID-19: Uganda officials face jail over food prices

Four senior government officials in Uganda are facing five years in jail for raising food prices in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic....

Apr 10, 2020

Uganda tightens measures after COVID-19 cases rise

Authorities in Uganda are introducing tougher preventive measures against the novel coronavirus as the number of cases in the country...

Apr 9, 2020

‘I Refuse to Be Repentant’: The Woman Challenging Uganda’s Ruler

By Abdi Latif Dahir The tears began flowing immediately after Stella Nyanzi began to speak. It was a cool mid-March afternoon, three...

Apr 7, 2020

Uganda: Respect Rights in COVID-19 Response

The Ugandan government should ensure that its security forces refrain from using excessive force or committing other abuses when...

Apr 6, 2020

Trucks smuggling unscreened people into Uganda

Ugandans and other foreign nationals trapped in South Sudan are now sneaking into the country using cargo trucks, Daily Monitor has...

Apr 3, 2020

Shutdown in Uganda over COVID-19 hits poor hard

Uganda’s poor are bearing the brunt of a nationwide shutdown declared by President Yoweri Museveni as part of efforts to contain the...

Apr 2, 2020

Ugandan police accused of abusing lockdown laws after LGBT arrests

Police in Uganda have charged 20 LGBT people with disobeying rules on physical distancing and risking the spread of coronavirus, in what...