Why are big guns supporting Muntu against Besigye’s Amuriat? Kampala, Uganda | AGATHER ATUHAIRE | In the race to lead Uganda’s biggest opposition party, FDC, members are seeing a side of the incumbent, Gen. Mugisha Muntu, which they have not known before. At his nomination on Aug.14 at the party …
Read More »ANALYSIS: Kadaga’s dilemma on new marriage Bill
Activists reveal why they are not behind her KAMPALA, UGANDA |FLAVIA NASSAKA| When the Speaker of Parliament Rebecca Kadaga on July 07 met Vastina Rukimirana Nsanze, the chairperson of the Uganda Law Reform Commission, she made a pledge – that she would contact the Justice and Constitutional Affairs minister to fast …
Read More »THE LAST WORD: On Museveni and Stella Nyanzi
How the detention and trial of a Makerere academic exposes the moral bankruptcy of Uganda’s elites By Andrew M. Mwenda Dr. Stella Nyanzi, an academic at Makerere University, has been jailed for using foul language to criticise President Yoweri Museveni and his wife, Janet. It is permissible to call the …
Read More »ANALYSIS: FDC WhatsApp fight intensifies
Muntu group wants Besigye to show results of 2016 elections It is just a few months to elections for party president and the war between supporters of different rivals for leadership in the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) has intensified. “I feel horrible about the goings on in my party …
Read More »Oguttu’s pointless opposition
By Agather Atuhaire How dangerous can confusion between Leader of Opposition and Opposition Chief Whip be? But not one opposition MP followed him out. Only four of the 67 opposition MPs ended up outside with their leader. In fact, even the Opposition Chief Whip, Cecilia Ogwal (Dokolo Woman) who is …
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