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 ...

Barcelona presidential candidate Victor Font has revealed he has had conversations with club legend Lionel Messi over a potential return to Camp Nou if he wins next month's elections. Font says he ...

Mr Sifuna, also the Nairobi Senator left no doubt that his time in the orange party is coming to an end, with the only option ...

Supporters of Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye have held a prayer service in a Catholic cathedral to press for his release.

The latter may sound economically sound, but political commentators have warned it could corner the bloc for the few ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Recent blackouts in Iran, Uganda, and beyond highlight a new front emerging in conflicts around the world: the fight to stay online. Though governments hold most of the power, people are finding ways ...

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.

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 ...