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‘Fix your elections before you give us lectures’ – Museveni gov’t takes aim at the United States over Uganda election

A spokesperson for President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda has slammed criticisms from the United States government leveled against the way and manner in which his country’s January 14 general election...

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...

HRW: Ugandan Government Creates Hostile Environment for Journalists, CSOs & Opposition in Wake of Elections

The government of Uganda is making the possibility of free and fair parliamentary and presidential elections impossible, according to Human Rights Watch (HRW). SEE ALSO: Saudi Arabian Pilot Uses Platform...

How a Ugandan artist uses aluminum plates, copper wires to raise political and social awareness  

The finished artistic works of award-winning Ugandan sculptor Ronald Odur are a product of aluminum plates, copper wires and acrylics. His experiment began in his living room where themes of his work embodied...

Ugandan doctors kneel and ask Museveni, 78, to stand for seventh term

A group of Ugandan doctors sparked controversy on social media after they knelt before President Yoweri Museveni and asked him to contest in the 2026 general elections, BBC reported.  Museveni, 78,...

At 23, this fish vendor is now Uganda’s youngest MP. Here’s her inspiring story

Hellen Auma Wandera is now the youngest member of Uganda’s new parliament. The student-entrepreneur, who sold fish on campus to her friends to support her upkeep, is now heading to parliament after...

Akon acquires land to build second futuristic city in Uganda

Acclaimed musician and business mogul Akon has set his sights on constructing a second futuristic and cryptocurrency-based city on the motherland, with the East African nation of Uganda being his country...

These are the six African elections to watch out for in 2021

One year after the world was first introduced to a pandemic that continues to ravage lives and economies, African countries are still finding solid grounds on which to place their feet in anticipation...

Bobi Wine says his bodyguard was run over and killed amid clashes in Uganda ahead of polls

Ugandan opposition figure Robert Kyagulanyi, popularly known as Bobi Wine, said one of his bodyguards was on Sunday run over and killed by a military police truck. The victim, Francis Senteza, was allegedly...

Nancy Kalembe: Who is Uganda’s only female presidential candidate looking to unseat Museveni?

Exactly five weeks until Ugandans are given the choice to elongate or curtail President Yoweri Museveni‘s 34-year reign, the only female presidential candidate among the 10 looking to unseat the...

‘This is a war-like situation’ – Uganda deploys additional troops amid protests over Bobi Wine arrest

There is a heavy security presence in the Ugandan capital, Kampala, following protests over the arrest of pop star and opposition figure Robert Kyagulanyi, popularly known as Bobi Wine. At least 28 people...

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...

Museveni orders Ugandans who wish to publish online to get a license. Free speech gone to the dogs!

Democracy thrives on free speech and any attempt to curtail people’s ability to freely express themselves is nothing smack of dictatorial tendencies. Yoweri Museveni’s government in Uganda...

At 19, this Ugandan woman became Africa’s youngest lawmaker

At age 19, many people have completed high school and are either in their first year at the university or about to pursue their bachelor’s degree altogether. For Proscovia Alengot Oromait, she stood...

‘It will be madness’ – Ugandan leader Museveni hints of cancelling polls amid coronavirus

Uganda’s presidential elections scheduled for early next year may be called off, after the country’s long-serving leader Yoweri Museveni said it would be foolhardy for the polls to take...

‘Dictators are not massaged out of power,’ says Uganda’s Bobi Wine as he escapes arrest on motorbike

After being prevented by police from holding an Independence Day concert on October 9, musician-turned-politician, Bobi Wine, has called on his compatriots to resist “dictator” President Yoweri...

This Ugandan was the first African royal to become an international model in the 1970s

Elizabeth Rukidi Nyabongo Bagaaya, the princess of Toro in Western Uganda is well-known for her career in modelling and acting in Europe and America at a period when blacks were hardly seen on the international...

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...

Ugandan Scholar Blasts Museveni, Wife for Failing To Provide Free Sanitary Pads

Stella Nyanzi, a Ugandan scholar and lecturer at Makerere University, blasted President Yoweri Museveni and his wife, First Lady Janet, for failing to provide school girls with sanitary pads as he promised...

Ugandan President Museveni Pushes AU To Adopt Monroe Doctrine

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has advised the African Union (AU) to adopt the Monroe Doctrine in order to ward off Western imperialism on the continent. In an article posted on his official blog on...