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Critics Slam Museveni’s Pricey Jubilee Medals to MPs, Besigye

The Ugandan parliament’s decision to award 1,200 of its lawmakers who served in a 50-year period between 1962 and 2012 with honorary medals for the country’s 50th anniversary of its independence...

Ugandan Opposition Leader Kizza Besigye Released on Bail

The embattled Ugandan main opposition leader Dr. Kizza Besigye has been released on a 100 million shilling non-cash bail pending the hearing of his treason charges. In his ruling yesterday morning, Uganda’s...

Ugandan Policeman Admits to Lying in Besigye Trial

A Ugandan police officer testifying against the incarcerated opposition leader Kizza Besigye  admitted to having lied in his testimony Wednesday. Brian Mark Omwito, a 33-year-old Ugandan intelligence...

Ugandan Activists Arrested for Wearing Besigye T-Shirts?

For the second day in a row, social media has been awash with condemning messages from outraged Ugandans who are calling for the immediate release of three opposition supporters arrested over the weekend...

Ugandan Opposition Leader Kizza Besigye Arrested As Museveni Is Sworn In

It was drama in Kampala, Uganda, on Wednesday: the main opposition leader Kizza Besigye was promptly arrested by Ugandan police after he dramatically swore himself in as President of Uganda, just a few...

#UgandaDecides: Besigye Arrested for Third Time, Museveni Orders Social Media Shut Down

Opposition presidential candidate Kizza Besigye was arrested for the third time Friday as Ugandan voters continued to cast their ballots one day after election day, reports BBC. RELATED: AS UGANDAN...

As Ugandan Elections Approach, Museveni, Besigye & Mbabazi Contend for Votes

  With both stakes and tensions high, Uganda will go to the polls to vote in their next president on Thursday. Here is a look at the main candidates. SEE ALSO: Chadian President Says He Will...

Celebrating Barbara Allimadi, the Ugandan political activist known for her defiant bra protest

In 2012, Barbara Allimadi co-organized a protest after a Ugandan police officer was filmed squeezing the breast of a female opposition politician during an arrest ahead of a rally. Allimadi, along with...

Bobi Wine has been Museveni’s biggest challenge ever – is the end near for M7?

Not earlier than 2019, there were some within and outside that country who held doubts about the potential for a former musician to cause trouble to Yoweri Kaguta Museveni‘s seemingly eternal reign...

A fragmented opposition poses no threat to Museveni in Uganda’s upcoming election

The emergence of Robert Kyagulanyi, aka Bobi Wine, in Uganda’s political landscape, has given hope that Yoweri Museveni could be defeated in the next presidential election scheduled 2021. For many...

Longest-serving Kenyan president Daniel arap Moi dies at age 95

Daniel arap Moi, Kenya’s longest-serving leader, has died aged 95 after he had been hospitalized for about a month. Moi presided over a one-party state between 1978 and 1991 only allowing multi-party...

Consolidation of democracy in Africa’s Great Lakes Region remains a vague hope

Despite being one of Africa’s richest regions in natural resources, Africa’s Great Lakes Region hosts some of the most undemocratic governments in the continent. Presidential palaces seem to...

Another African opposition leader plans to swear himself in as president amid tension

A few weeks after the inauguration of Zimbabwean president Emmerson Mnangagwa, the main opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) has announced plans to swear in its leader Nelson Chamisa as “people’s...

[Poetic Attack] ‘A Nation In Labour’ by Ugandan poet Harriet Anena

Harriet Anena is a poet, journalist, and farmer born and raised in northern Uganda and currently living in the capital Kampala. She is the author of ‘A Nation In Labour’ – a socially...

These 4 disappointed African opposition leaders declared themselves president

Raila Odinga on Tuesday turned out as one of the daring opposition leaders in Africa to declare themselves as president. This follows his ‘swearing-in’ ceremony as the people’s ‘president’...

Kenya’s failed presidential candidate takes path of treason

Kenya’s main opposition coalition National Super Alliance (NASA) party is planning to swear in disappointed leader Raila Odinga as “the people’s president” on December 12, a treasonable...

Brawl by Ugandan MPs Shows Ugandans Are Tired of Autocratic Leadership

This past Monday, Ugandans were treated to ugly scenes in the National Assembly as Members of Parliament from the opposition and government sides traded blows, kicks and insults over an attempt by those...

President Museveni Defends Controversial 3-Decade Rule

Ugandan President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni recently defended his three-decade reign against allegations of dictatorship, nepotism, political assassinations, and the abuse of human rights, insisting...

Mugabe Asks Africans To Give Donald Trump a Chance

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has sent shock waves across Africa with his latest call for Africans to give the newly elected U.S. President Donald Trump a chance to prove himself. In what appears...

President Museveni: ‘I Am Not a Servant of Anybody’

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has hit back at Ugandans, telling them that he is not their servant or employee. The veteran politician and guerrilla war fighter described himself as a freedom fighter...