For decades, the political identity of the Lango sub-region was inseparable from the Uganda People's Congress (UPC) and the towering legacy of its founding father, Dr Apollo Milton Obote.Voting UPC ...

Coercion and intimidation alone are not enough to consolidate hold on to power, that is why they seek the electoral mandate ...

The strange goings-on in Uganda last week presented a variation on Africa’s current crop of coups. Uganda’s gov ernment was overthrown all right, but not by military men. It was Prime Minister Milton ...

Some say he used his tongue to get to power; perhaps the reason Milton Obote was one of the civilians to take power in a coup in Africa. While writing his obituary, the Guardian described Obote as one ...

Vendors selling popcorn and soft drinks moved through the crowd of journalists and diplomats gathered in the tiny border town of Busia, Kenya, about 235 miles northwest of Nairobi. The throng was ...

The beneficiary of the luck was Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni’s influential brother Gen Caleb Akandwanaho, aka Salim Saleh, who Katumba rescued in 1981. Saleh returned the favour in 1986 when ...