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Uganda defiant as US threatens sanctions over contested elections
Possible US sanctions against Uganda following alleged irregularities in January’s elections and abuse by the security forces would be...
Feb 25, 2021
Joe Biden warns Uganda on 2021 election irregularities
US State Department spokesperson Price stated US position after former presidential candidate Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine withdrew elections...
Feb 24, 2021
Uganda’s Wine withdraws court challenge to election results
In this Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2021 file photo, opposition presidential challenger Bobi Wine, whose real name is Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, gestures...
Feb 23, 2021
Uganda: Bobi under pressure to withdraw petition
Attorney General William Byaruhanga makes a submission during a hearing of Bobi Wine’s poll petition challenging President Museveni’s...
Feb 22, 2021
Exiled in Kenya, controversial Ugandan activist continues to speak out
Stella Nyanzi, a prominent Ugandan activist, is arrested by police on May 18, 2020, after she organized a protest for more food...
Feb 19, 2021
Uganda military sentences soldiers up to three months in jail over journalist assault
The New Vision newspaper's Paul Murungi was among the journalists assaulted (Reuters) The Ugandan military on Thursday sentenced seven...
Feb 19, 2021
UN urges Uganda to probe reporters’ beatings at rights office
(Getty Images) The United Nations on Wednesday called for an investigation into allegations that Ugandan military police used “excessive...
Feb 18, 2021
Uganda: Man held over flogging effigy
A police officer restrains a man who was found flogging an effigy on Kampala Road yesterday. (Courtesy) Police in Kampala yesterday...
Feb 16, 2021
Uganda: Museveni scoffs at EU Parliament over proposed sanctions
President Museveni Saturday scoffed at European Union (EU) Parliament which has recommended sanctions against Ugandan individuals and...
Feb 15, 2021
Uganda: Unease after alleged election abductions
A spate of disappearances linked to January's general election have raised alarm among members of the opposition and the families of...
Feb 12, 2021
Ugandan government restores social media sites, except Facebook
A man uses a computer to read news at a cyber cafe after the Uganda Communication Commission restored the internet in Kampala, Uganda....
Feb 11, 2021
Uganda: Hundreds of dissidents allegedly kidnapped
Opposition leader Bobi Wine, relatives accuse authorities of being behind abductions Hundreds of abductions have been reported across...
Feb 10, 2021
Uganda: Museveni, ministers cling onto social media despite ban by his government
President Museveni and half of his 28-member Cabinet have remained active on social media despite the government's official ban on the...
Feb 9, 2021
Uganda: First ICC conviction of an LRA leader
Dominic Ongwen guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity Dominic Ongwen at his confirmation of charges hearing in ICC courtroom I...
Feb 5, 2021
Ugandan academic cum political activist, Dr Stella Nyanzi, has fled to Nairobi, Kenya
This was confirmed by her lawyer, Prof George Luchiri Wajackoyah, who cited political persecution by President Yoweri Museveni's...
Feb 4, 2021
Uganda’s president orders suspension of European-backed fund
In this Thursday, Jan. 14, 2021 file photo, Ugandans wait to vote in the presidential election in Kampala, Uganda. Uganda's President...
Feb 4, 2021
Uganda’s presidential elections mired in controversy
Refusing to concede defeat, all 10 presidential candidates claim they were cheated Uganda’s recent presidential elections are being...
Feb 3, 2021
Uganda opposition leader Bobi Wine calls on court to nullify election result
Party lawyer accuses re-elected president Yoweri Museveni of being an ‘agent of violence’ The Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine...
Feb 2, 2021
How long will Uganda be a den of thieves?
On Tuesday, January 26, about 50 invited guests assembled at State House Entebbe to mark the 35th anniversary of “NRM Liberation Day”...
Feb 1, 2021
Museveni has failed to win over young, urban Ugandans: why he’s running out of options
Campaign posters of President Yoweri Museveni hang on a cable a day after the election commission said he won a sixth term in office....
Jan 29, 2021
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