The European Union has joined a growing number of international voices calling for a probe into Ugandan election abuses and violence that left more than 40 people dead in the lead up to the polls. Opposition candidates were harassed by security forces, the media was suppressed by the government, and observers’ offices were raided, said…
The Uganda Foreign Affairs Minister Sam Kutesa has revealed that internet shutdown by the government during the just concluded presidential and parliamentary elections helped to prevent the incitement of violence and use of malicious language. The minister made remarks while presenting a formal brief to Heads of Diplomatic Missions and International organizations on Wednesday at…
Rogers Ssemakula, one of the National Unity Platform (NUP) supporters and resident of Kabembe in Kyampisi Sub County in Mukono district who went missing on the eve of the presidential and parliamentary elections, has been found dead. His body was recovered from Kiyunga forest by a team of NUP supporters following days of searching. Ssemakula,’s…
The Ugandan authorities must immediately lift the police and military siege of opposition leader Robert Kyagulanyi’s home and release him and his wife Barbara Itungo Amnesty International said as the post-election blockade entered its 7th day. Robert Kyagulanyi, also known as Bobi Wine was declared runner-up by the Electoral Commission in last week’s presidential election,…
Two people are nursing wounds at Kanungu health centre IV after being shot in local government elections in two separate incidents. They are Andrew Musingizi, the polling agent of Independent Kanungu LC V chairperson candidate, Sam Kajojo and Moses Kabirinda. Musingizi was shot in the stomach by unknown people while riding home on a motorcycle.…
On January 20, 2021, President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris were sworn into office in an inauguration ceremony that looked unlike any other in American history. In light of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and heightened security concerns, there weren’t hundreds of thousand of guests watching from grandstands at the Capitol or packed shoulder-to-shoulder…
The Katikkiro of Buganda Kingdom Charles Peter Mayiga has dismissed the talk of sectarian voting in Buganda during the presidential and parliamentary elections. According to Mayiga, many issues need to be addressed in Buganda including the broken health system, poverty, unemployment and the unsatisfactory education system which might be some of the reasons the ruling…
The Principal Judge, Dr. Flavian Zeija, has shuffled 26 High Court judges in the latest Judges’ transfers that he announced today (Tuesday, January 19). The changes that will be effected on February 22, 2021,will see the head of head of the Criminal Division of the High Court Justice Wilson Kwesiga, concentrate On winding up of…
After suspending retired Archbishop of Church of Uganda, Stanley Ntagali from performing Church duties after getting involved in an extra-marital affair with a married woman. Archbishop of the Church of Uganda, the Most Rev. Stephen Samuel Kaziimba Mugalu has come up to explain how the Anglican Bishops under the Global Anglican Future Conference (GAFCON)came to…
Fastest growing Premier Recruitment Ltd has over the weekend and today (Tuesday) January 19, 2020 flagged off 29 male Ugandans to work as Facility Cleaners in Qatar as well as 39 young ladies to work as domestic workers in Riyadh –Saudi Arabia under Saudi based prestigious Enaya Recruitment Agency respectively. The 29 boys deployed to…
