Politics

A Ugandan delegation led by foreign affairs minister Sam Kutesa is in Rwanda's capital Kigali for a follow up meeting of the joint Ad-hoc Commission set up to help implement the Memorandum of Understanding signed by Rwanda and Uganda in…

The National Resistance Movement (NRM) political party has been in charge of this country for the last three decades, and a lot of positives have been registered in most sectors although this success can be attributed to its ideological…

Today, January 25th, 2020, is almost exactly 61 years since I started my personal involvement of waking up (kusimula) the Banyankore that were nearest to me from the sleep (nino, kugwejegyera, lambala, kwebaka, lilo) of money-lessness in…

The Central Executive Committee (CEC) sitting in Entebbe on Thursday further discussed the proposed amendments to the NRM Constitution and adopted only Lining up as a mode of voting during internal Party elections. This will be presented…

By Nyombi Thembo When UPC stole the December 1980 general elections, the expectations we had for a new Uganda that had been promised after the 1979 liberation were all gone. Anger and desperation replaced hope. While in that utter…

By Edwin Sesange Jacqueline Wolfson is a name many Ugandans will not recognize. To those who have come across her in Kampala, they simply know her as Jackie, the muzungu woman trying to help street children through her NGO called “Shule…

By David Lewis Rubongoya Last night, social media got busy with videos of singers Jennifer Full Figure and Catherine Kusasira being chased off stage by music revellers in Masaka. In Kusasira’s case, bottles were pelted at her before she…

The unanimous judgment by five Constitutional Court justices led by the Deputy Chief Justice, Alphonse Owiny-Dollo stems from an application filed by the former Bufumbira East MP, Eddie Kwizera challenging the legality of a number of…

A wave of sub-Saharan African countries became independent in the 1960s, 17 achieving self-rule from colonial Belgium, Britain and France in 1960 alone. Portugal's colonies would only break free in the 1970s and it took other…

The battle for the Kabale Municipality parliamentary seat is set to become a family affair after two siblings of Bank of Uganda Governor Emmanuel Tumusime-Mutebile indicated that they are ready to go neck to neck in a bid to win people’s…