Ugandan sexuality Scholar, medical anthropologist, feminist, queer rights activist, and public health Dr. Stella Nyanzi collapsed at the International War Crimes Division of the High Court in Kampala on Thursday 20 February 2020 minutes after the judge ordered for her release from Luzira Prison where she has been for months. Dr Nyanzi was last year…
Uganda Police and Electoral commission has confirmed that one of the two men who attacked MPs yesterday afternoon during a plenary session, is a presidential aspirant. Charles Mutasa Kafeero, a member of a pressure group -the Red Top Brigade is one the 20 presidential aspirants who have been cleared by the Electoral Commission to embark…
The State House House Monitoring Unit together with sister Security operatives has arrested and detained two Tanzanian nationals who were allegedly found with stolen government drugs worth Shs 35m that were meant to be taken to Tanzania. Addressing journalists at their offices in Kampala on Wednesday, February, 19, 2020, Dr Jackson Ojera Abusu, the…
The Uganda Police task team investigating the murder by shooting of Sheikh Mutumba Masudi, which occurred on the February 14, 2020, have tracked down and arrested the prime suspect behind the incident. The suspect has been identified as Mugoya Abiyasad, a supervisor of SGA private security company. According to the Police Spokesperson Fred Enanga, the…
Ugandan officials could have stashed away a whopping USD 73M (UGX267B) of the aid money from the World Bank between 1990 and 2009, a new research paper suggests. The controversial paper written by researchers from the Norwegian Business School, University of Copenhagen, and The World Bank observed that every time the institution released money to…
The Attorney General William Byaruhanga on Wednesday February 19, 2020 came under fire for failing to present a response on a raft of constitutional amendments proposed by the Opposition under the Constitutional (Amendment) Bill, 2019. Byaruhanga together with the Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs, Ephraim Kamuntu were expected to avail the Legal and Parliamentary…
Genesis On May, 13, 2015, a Burundian Military officer Godefroid Niyombare declared a coup d’état, announcing on a privately owned local radio that President “Pierre Nkurunziza has been dismissed”. President Nkurunziza was at the time in the neighboring Tanzania attending the 13th Extraordinary Summit of the East African Community Heads of State, which had been…
Parliament of Uganda has fulfilled the UGX 114 million pledge it made to the Ghetto kids meant to cover a debt the youngsters have over a house they acquired but partly paid for. The pledge that was made by MPs last year, on December 19, 2019, on learning that the ghetto kids were on the…
The Horn of Africa is suffering the worst desert locust invasion in decades, devastating pastoralist and farming communities in Kenya, Ethiopia, Somalia, Djibouti, Eritrea, and Uganda. South Sudan and Tanzania now are on the UN “watch list”. For Kenya, it is the worst infestation in 70 years and the worst outbreak in 25 years for…
Rwanda has listed at least six Ugandan officials over allegations of supporting and funding Rwanda National Congress (RNC) and RUD-Urunana networks. These include: State Minister for Regional Affairs Philemon Mateke, Brig Gen Abel Kandiho of the Chieftaincy of Military Intelligence, Internal Security Organisation (ISO) chief Col Kaka Bagyenda, Second Division Deputy Commander Brig Fred Karara,…
