News Uganda Politics: Memo to Besigye, Bobi Wine: Uganda needs leadership not politics
Following the so-called “State of The People Address” which was largely characterized with lamentation, I would like to urgently send a backdated memo to the retired colonel Doctor Kizza Besigye and ...
News Uganda Politics: Uganda: Bobi, Besigye Dragged to Court
accuses Bobi Wine of running a self-styled political organisation with three names of 'People Power Movement', 'People Power-Uganda' and 'People Power', which he uses interchangeably and that he ...
News Uganda Politics: Uganda: Why We Must Condemn, Fight Corruption in Public Entities
Fighting corrupting is increasingly becoming a big issue of debate in most of our countries. Yet, detecting corruption has also become an extremely difficult job because of its common occurrence, sophistication and how it has been normalised in some societies.
News Uganda Politics: Ugandan singer Bobi Wine plans to run for president in 2021
history lecturer at Uganda's Makerere University. "He can still be symbolically a game changer in a system where the political space has been narrowed." Yet the singer's candidacy comes with ...
News Uganda Politics: Politics of identity rendered Uganda a failed State – Museveni
He noted that at the time of independence, Uganda had two unprincipled rivalries along tribes and religion. He added that in 1962, the voting was done along religious lines, which led to none of the ...
News Uganda Politics: Uganda: Politics of Identity Rendered Uganda a Failed State - Museveni
President Museveni has taken another swipe at Uganda's post-colonial leaders, saying they were obsessed with the politics of identity, which rendered Uganda a failed state shortly after independence. Uganda attained independence from Britain in 1962.
News Uganda Politics: Uganda women MPs joined forces with men to make their voices heard
Uganda’s female parliamentarians are challenging the country’s male-centric political system. They are doing so by collaborating with, among others, fellow male parliamentarians. Changing the ...
News Uganda Politics: Uganda town battles Ebola with few gloves, little support
The isolation ward for Ebola patients is a tent erected in the garden of the hospital. Gloves are given out sparingly to health workers. And when the second person in the Uganda border town of Bwera died after the virus outbreak spread from neighboring Congo, the hospital for several hours couldn't find a vehicle to take away the body.
News Uganda Politics: Ugandan medics facing Ebola outbreak say they lack supplies
Such a declaration typically triggers more funding, resources and political attention. WHO said $54 million is needed to stop the outbreak. And yet both Congo and Uganda appeared to lobby against ...
News Uganda Politics: A visit to the scene where Rwandan soldier killed two inside Uganda
The Rwandan delegation led by Nyagatare Mayor Claudian Mushabe crossed to Uganda’s No-man’s land but refused to ... crossing to the either side without any problem before this political wrangle that ...
News Uganda Politics: IPOD is killing multi-party politics in Uganda
The Interparty Organisation for Dialogue (IPOD), which is a grouping of political parties with representation in Parliament, is indirectly pushing for many individuals to think of creating parties ...
News Uganda Politics: Rwanda: By Parading Rwanda's Dead for Political Points, Uganda Crosses the Line
For much of the tensions between Uganda and Rwanda, there was a general belief held by the people of both countries that a war was not possible. I was one of those who believed that the situation ...
News Uganda Politics: Diplomats condemn order suspending Ugandan journalists
“We are also concerned about the excessive use of force by Ugandan police and security services against peaceful protesters and political opposition,” they said. Nicholas Opiyo, from the Chapter Four ...
News Uganda Politics: Uganda's `President for Life' Could Face Closest Vote in Decades
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni could face the closest election ... He plans to run for president and has been arrested several times in the past year for political activities. Kizza Besigye, an ...
News Uganda Politics: Uganda declining in press freedom - envoy
Uganda is heading into political campaigns in 2020/2021, which comes with a high harassment risk to journalists. What is your advice? I was in Uganda in 2016 during the last election and I know what ...
News Uganda Politics: Uganda: Bobi Wine Rise an Exciting Change in Uganda's Politics - Prof Tandon
Kyadondo East member of parliament Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine's rise is the most exciting change in Uganda's political landscape according to Prof Yash Tandon. His views on the political ...
