Inside Museveni’s life presidency project | Exposing faces behind campaign to lift age-limit Kampala, Uganda | HAGGAI MATSIKO | Members of President Yoweri Museveni’s inner circle know something is serious if Lt. Col Michael Katungi is involved. He is a very quiet officer who likes to keep a low profile but …
Read More »THIS WEEK: FDC supporters freed
THIS WEEK: FDC supporters accused of holding unlawful assemblies freed 56 supporters of the opposition Forum for Democratic Change Party – FDC were arrested on July 19 and released two days later. The group had been detained at Nalufenya—a police facility recently branded torture chambers for allegedly holding unlawful assemblies. …
Read More »FDC elders advise Muntu to leave FDC for Besigye
FDC elders advise Muntu to leave FDC for Besigye, explain alternative plans for him for 2021 Kampala, Uganda | AGATHER ATUHAIRE | In a radical proposal, some supporters of FDC Party President Mugisha Muntu say he should withdraw from contesting for re-election as party president. They argue that freeing himself …
Read More »THE LAST WORD: Too much ado over nothing
Why Museveni is most likely going to succeed in amending the constitution to remove the age limit The Last Word | ANDREW M. MWENDA | Uganda is entering a major political battle that will show us the balance of political forces between President Yoweri Museveni and his opponents. A section …
Read More »IN THE INDEPENDENT: Elders advise Muntu to leave FDC
In The Independent this week: COVER STORY Elders advise Muntu to leave FDC over Besigye: FDC elders explain alternative plans for him for 2021. THE LAST WORD Too much ado over nothing: Why Museveni is most likely going to succeed in amending the constitution to remove the age limit. …
Read More »COVER STORY: Bobi Wine’s win
Bobi Wine’s win; whose victory is it? Kampala, Uganda | AGATHER ATUHAIRE | The man standing on top the cream SUV, surrounded by a shouting crowd of excited supporters was wearing a sky-blue slim-cut suit of the type that was trending until recently. He matched it with a slim- tie …
Read More »Muntu faces FDC boot
Defiant members plot to oust party president Kampala, Uganda |Agather Atuhaire| It appears nothing and nobody is these days simple or innocent in Uganda’s biggest party, the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC). But it is a reality that the leaders; from Party President Mugisha Muntu to Secretary General Nandala Mafabi …
Read More »Besigye again vows not to report back to Nakawa court
Kampala, Uganda | GODFREY SSALI | Former FDC presidential candidate Dr. Kiiza Besigye has for the second time vowed not to return before the Nakawa Court, this time, for extension of his bail granted to him by the High Court. Besigye made the remarks on Friday as he returned to court for mention of …
Read More »LIVE: Kyadondo East by-election
Kampala, Uganda | Godfrey Ssali | Voters in Kyadondo East go to the polls today to elect a new Member of Parliament (MP). Voting ends at 4pm, after which tallying starts. The Kyadondo seat fell vacant in April following a Court of Appeal ruling that upheld an earlier ruling by the High Court which …
Read More »THIS WEEK: Besigye pins refugee crisis on Museveni
THIS WEEK: Besigye pins refugee crisis on Museveni Opposition leader Kizza Besigye has blamed the current refugee situation on President Museveni arguing that his military adventures in the Great Lakes region are a source of instability. While addressing journalists at his office on Katonga road, the former FDC presidential candidate …
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