Why money will keep rocking Besigye’s party   COVER STORY | IAN KATUSIIME | One of Uganda’s main opposition parties, the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC), is in disarray as an ongoing fight for its leadership has degenerated into allegations of bribery and illicit money. Accusations of dubious procurements, ferrying of …

New report shows influence on Museveni, Muhoozi COVER STORY | IAN KATUSIIME | The literature produced and used by the National Resistance Army (NRA), President Yoweri Museveni’s guerilla army that fought in the Luweero bushes from 1981-1986 called its mission a “protracted people’s war.” The doctrine of “people’s war”, sometimes called …

Security, citizens on edge after two previous deadly attacks Kampala, Uganda | IAN KATUSIIME | A terror warning issued by the U.K. has left Ugandan security on high alert. After two deadly attacks on Ugandan troops in Somalia and a rebel attack on a school in Kasese, it appears to be …

Merger of roads agency was supposed to take effect with new financial year Kampala, Uganda | IAN KATUSIIME | Seven months after the Uganda National Roads Authority (UNRA) was to have wound down and its mandate remerged with its mother Ministry of Works and Transport (MoWT) under a grandiose cost-cutting plan, …

Terror group’s new funding, wider networks exposed COVER STORY | IAN KATUSIIME | A well-orchestrated attack on Lhubiriha Secondary School in Kasese District on June 16 that left 43 people dead; 37 of whom were students, has left the nation in shock and agony. The government has pinned the notorious Allied …

  How State House, Office of the President, Ministry of Defense use the slush fund Kampala, Uganda | IAN KATUSIIME | It is hard to ascertain for sure how much Uganda spends on its defence every year as the government routinely asks for supplementary budgets from parliament on top of the …

Debate rages on the future of UPDF in Somalia mission COVER STORY | IAN KATUSIIME | Jonathan Odur, the opposition MP of Erute South constituency and Shadow Minister for Defence, says the Ugandan contingent in the African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS) has done a good job in keeping peace. …

How Museveni family politics plays out Kampala, Uganda | IAN KATUSIIME | In December 2022, President Yoweri Museveni flew to London with a business delegation en route to the U.S. Africa summit in Washington D.C. In his delegation was one individual who loomed large: his son-in-law Odrek Rwabwogo. Rwabwogo’s presence on …

How Rwanda’s support for Muhoozi could influence 2026 campaign Kampala, Uganda | IAN KATUSIIME | Rwanda goes to the polls in 2024 with President Paul Kagame widely expected to stand in his fourth election. In that election, all eyes will be on a maverick Ugandan army officer, Gen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba, and …

Speaker in panic as Museveni turns heat on implicated ministers Kampala Uganda | IAN KATUSIIME | Uganda’s Speaker of Parliament, Anita Among, has cut back on her public appearances as she is gripped by panic and tension over charges she could face following her involvement in the blossoming scandal where government …