Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The retired Justice of the Supreme Court, Professor George Kanyeihamba has said if Parliament pushes through President Yoweri Kaguta Musveni’s proposal of scrapping bail for capital offenders, it would be an affront on the constitution that must be resisted by all Ugandans. Speaking to the media …
Read More »Three remanded over murder of Ntoroko district NRM boss
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Makindye based UPDF General Court Martial has remanded three suspects in connection to the kidnap and subsequent murder of former Ntoroko District National Resistance Movement chairperson, Japheth Kabagambe Ahebwa. The suspects are Barnabas Alleluya, a businessman/native doctor and resident of Kagando cell, Rukindo ward …
Read More »Opposition parties accuse NRM of hijacking Uganda’s independence day celebrations
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Four opposition parties, the National Unity Platform, the Democratic Party, the Alliance for National Transformation and the Forum for Democratic Change, have said the ruling National Resistance Movement hijacked Uganda’s independence day celebrations by turning them into a partisan fete for the party to celebrate its …
Read More »Museveni praises religious leaders on NRM ideology
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni has commended religious leaders for shunning radicalism, prioritizing a message of transforming society and not engaging in unnecessary wars. Museveni said that the present-day religious leaders are not like their predecessors who got disoriented and emphasized religious differences rather than unity in diversity. …
Read More »Opposition launch new front against President Museveni
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | At least 10 opposition political parties and activist groups have formed another coalition through which they hope to end President Yoweri Museveni’s 36-year grip on power. Speaking today at the unveiling of the coalition named; People’s Front for Transition, former President of the Forum for Democratic …
Read More »Museveni’s stand on bail
Why is the President insistent on a seemingly winless war? Kampala, Uganda | IAN KATUSIIME | What does President Yoweri Museveni have against two young opposition legislators; Muhammad Ssegirinya and Allan Ssewanyana so much as for him to revive his unpopular stance on bail? It is something that has vexed …
Read More »The triumph of security agencies
How NRM and the ministry of foreign affairs have surrendered their political and diplomatic functions to intelligence agencies THE LAST WORD | ANDREW M. MWENDA | Uganda government is at war on many fronts. It has locked horns with Western governments and their domestic institutional agents – Non-Government Organisations …
Read More »Hell over bail
What’s behind Museveni move against bail? Kampala, Uganda | RONALD MUSOKE | President Yoweri Museveni has resurrected debate on courts granting bail and says he will now mobilise and solve the issue politically. Speaking Sept.27 during the 4th Memorial Lecture of the former Chief Justice, Benedicto Kiwanuka, held at …
Read More »NRM MPs to consult on proposed bail ban for capital offences
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The ruling National Resistance Movement-NRM Parliamentary Caucus has resolved to carry out a two-weeks consultation on President Yoweri Museveni’s proposed ban of bail for capital offence suspects. Museveni on Tuesday addressed the NRM legislators at Kololo Independence grounds and according to the Government Chief Whip …
Read More »Archbishop Jonah Lwanga dies at 76
He spoke up on democracy, constitutionalism, and human rights Kampala, Uganda | RONALD MUSOKE | Since the death on Sept.05 of Archbishop Jonah Lwanga in Athens, Greece, the spiritual leader of more than 500,000 Ugandans who are Greek Orthodox Christian, tributes have been pouring in. “It is really sad and …
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