January, President Yoweri Museveni did not hesitate to have dozens of protesters killed and hundreds of opposition members prosecuted. Among them are Bobi Wine, who is now in hiding, and Kizza Besigye ...

Reporter Sophie Neiman describes the experience of covering Uganda’s presidential election in the midst of a country-wide internet shutdown.

National Unity Platform (NUP) leader Robert Kyagulanyi, popularly known as Bobi Wine, has said his wife and children fled Uganda for fear of their lives following the January 15 presidential election.

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Former Supreme Court Justice Esther Kisaakye has insisted that she is no longer a serving judge and rejects the jurisdiction of a judicial tribunal appointed to ...

Uganda’s Kizza Besigye has been described as possibly the most arrested man in Africa. Besigye was once President Yoweri Museveni’s ally and personal physician. He broke ranks with Museveni in 1999 ...

They risk becoming permanent footnotes in the democracy they once helped build. Whereas history will remember them kindly, the voters already have not ...

Last week, Mawokota South member of parliament Yusuf Nsibambi defected from the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) and joined the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM). He joins a long list of ...

Former Supreme Court judge Esther Kisaakye and self-exiled Uganda Law Society (ULS) president Isaac Ssemakadde are set to ...

Human rights abuses marred the presidential elections in Uganda in January 2026 and the contested polls in Tanzania in October 2025. As neighbouring Kenya enters a pre-electoral phase with ...

General Muhoozi Kainerugaba, Uganda’s army chief and the son of President Yoweri Museveni, is one of the most enigmatic and polarising figures in the country’s political landscape. He often draws ...

The Judiciary has intensified its push for increased funding for the 2026/2027 financial year, citing a growing case backlog, institutional expansion and ambitious reforms aimed at improving ...