Five supporters of the National Unity Platform (NUP) in Busia have been admitted to Dabani hospital after they sustained serious injuries in a fight that broke during a party meeting. The fight is said to have broken out after some party members who were not invited for the interim committee meeting meant to resolve issues…
The opposition National Unity Platform party leaders and relatives of the missing supporters stormed the offices of the Uganda Human Rights Commission in Kampala on Thursday. Top NUP leaders, including Secretary General Luis Rubongoya, MP Joel Ssenyonyi, and the spokesperson, among others, led the angry supporters and filed a fresh petition demanding immediate action to…
Police have suspended with immediate effect all planned rallies and country wide mobilisation campaigns being conducted by National Unity Platform (NUP) party leader Robert Kyagulanyi alias Bobiwine. Deputy Inspector General of Police Maj Gen Katsigazi Tumusiime said in a statement on Wednesday that NUP had broken parameters agreed upon with the party, whose leader has…
Uganda Police Force spokesperson SCP Fred Enanga has warned organisers of the National Unity Platform (NUP) to adhere to the rightful procedure for holding public meetings. Enanga stated that rallies, processions, demonstrations, acts of incitement to violence or other activity that may lead to incidences likely to cause breach of peace or several insecurity were…
The Police on Friday fired teargas to disperse supporters of the National Unity Platform-NUP political party who had gathered at their party headquarters to remember those killed during the November 2020 riots. Today marks two years since at least 54 people were killed as police and the army tried to quell protests in Kampala and…
A delegation from President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni’s government led by Uganda’s ambassador in United Arab Emirates (UAE), Kibedi Zaake, survived being beaten by angry Ugandan girls who are currently being kept in detention centers in Dubai. State Minister for International Affairs in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Henry Okello Oryem has revealed that the delegation…
By Andrew Mwenda Kampala: Uganda’s leading opposition figure, Robert Kyagulanyi, hereinafter referred to by his stage name, Bobi Wine, is a disaster of unmitigated proportions. He claims to be opposed to the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP). I wonder whether he even knows what this project is about and the length to which the…
Following a string of losses in recent parliamentary by-elections, the political opposition leaders Kizza Besigye and Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine have seen it fit for all change seeking Ugandans to unite. The recent opposition loss in a by-election was in Soroti City East Constituency where incumbent MP Moses Attan was defeated by the ruling…
The opposition National Unity Platform (NUP) party has unveiled plans for the construction of their new headquarters that will be situated in Makerere Kavule, Kawempe division in Kampala. This was during the groundbreaking function held on Tuesday, July 12, 2022, in Kampala. Speaking at the event on Tuesday, NUP President Robert Kyagulanyi alias Bobi Wine…
Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) soldier Sgt Ali Hassan Matovu and a civilian Erias Ssengoba have denied kidnapping and raping National Unity Platform (NUP) supporter Alexandros Marinos. Marinos revealed to party members and journalists on Wednesday that she was kidnapped on March 30 and kept in the dungeons of Chieftaincy of Military Intelligence (CMI) for…
