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VIDEO: Rtd Col. Dr. Kizza Besigye, former presidential candidate for the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC), has briefed party supporters in London, UK on the political situation in Uganda. Addressing hundreds of waiting FDC P10 members at the Hilton Hotel in London, Besigye encouraged the supporters to remain hopeful change will …

  The government intends to establish a practicing educational institution of higher learning for journalists to refine their skills as a way of enabling them to serve the public better through disseminating information. Minister of Information, Technology and Communications (ICT) and National Guidance Frank Tumwebaze argued that due to the critical …

African leaders to adopt President Museveni’s paper as blue-print to guide continent on development African leaders have agreed to use President Yoweri Museveni’s paper on bottlenecks facing Africa’s development as a blue print to guide the continent. President Museveni’s presentation on Friday at the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) meeting in …

Deputy Chief Justice Steven Kavuma has today issued an interim order halting the prosecution of Inspector General of Police (IGP) Kale Kayihura over torture charges before Makindye Magistrates Court. Justice Kavuma  presided over an interim application filed Friday by a city advocate Robert Rutaro that sought to block the criminal trial …

Khartoum, Sudan | AFP |  South Sudan’s former rebel leader Riek Machar has been discharged from hospital in Khartoum after being treated for a swollen leg, his aides told AFP on Friday. Machar was replaced by Taban Deng Gai as South Sudan’s first vice president after hundreds of people died …

The Supreme court has today given its detailed reasons for their ruling in the Uganda Presidential Election Petition No 1 of 2016 and identified 10 key reforms that it wants the Attorney General to implement ahead of the next elections. “The Attorney General must follow up the recommendations made by this court with the other …

The Electoral Commission (EC) has halted the process of organising Uganda’s Local Council (LC) 1 and 2 elections until they get full funding. The chairman of the commission Badru Kiggundu while meeting members on Parliament’s Legal Committee today, said that the commission has decided to halt the exercise due to lack of funds. …

Expert urges government to match plans with implementation to reverse wide disparity between GDP and citizens’ quality of life A new report has shown that it is possible for a country to have vast economic wealth yet have citizens who are living a poor quality of life. The latest Social …

The week in Uganda’s parliament ended dramatically on Thursday, with a bill seeking an increase in the retirement age of judges being given the green light and the security minister (Rtd) Lt.General Henry Tumukunde promising to support a former aide of Dr. Kiiza Besigye Sam Mugumya who is detained in DRC.   …

The High court in Kampala has today reduced the punishment of nine death row convicts following the  2003  Constitutional petition of Susan Kigula & 417 others that challenged the death penalty. Justice Wilson Masalu Musene revised the death penalty passed against the said convicts aged between 40 -60 years whose …