Eight supporters of the National Unity Platform (NUP) have been convicted by the Luwero Grade One Magistrate Court for taking part in riots that rocked Luwero Town Council last month. The convicts are among 36 people arrested after protests erupted at around 7:00 pm on January 15, 2026, when secu
Syria—Damascus was still asleep when horror struck the home of legendary Syrian actress Huda Shaarawi, the woman millions knew as Umm Zaki. At around 5:00 a.m. last week Thursday morning, January 29, 2026, the 88-year-old star was bludgeoned to death while lying in her bed, her life ending viol
Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the son of the longtime former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, has been killed in Libya.Ahmed Khalifa, an Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent in the North African country, said on Tuesday that Gaddafi is believed to have been shot and killed in the western Libyan city of
Sunday morning, the people of Bunyoro gathered in Masindi Municipality to bid farewell to Owek. Nyendwoha Mutiti Amooti, the emeritus Deputy Prime Minister of the Bunyoro Kitara Kingdom, former Member of Parliament for Buliisa, and father of Hon. Norah Bigirwa, Buliisa Woman MP.The burial
On Friday evening, the Masaka Chief Magistrate Abert Asiimwe commenced the implement an order of vote recount, which arouse from an application filed by Justine Nameere, the National Resistance Movement-NRM candidate, who contested the victory of her National Unity Platform-NUP competitor R
Masaka– Newly elected Bukoto East Member of Parliament Hon. Sarah Babirye Kityo has advised President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni to strengthen the National Resistance Movement’s (NRM) foothold in the Central Region by fostering closer ties with communities through regular consultations and engage
There was Tension at the Masaka High Court on Friday afternoon following a court order for a vote recount in the fiercely contested Masaka City Woman Member of Parliament race.The decision by Masaka Chief Magistrate Abert Asiimwe came after an application by Justine Nameere, the candidate
There is growing consensus among strategists at Kavule-based NUP headquarters that the political relationship between them on one hand and Shamim Malende on the other is irretrievably broken. And that the Kampala Woman MP won’t be returning to the principal to kneel for the party’s flag and e
The Advisory Committee on the Prerogative of Mercy has declined to advise the President on granting clemency to exiled president of the Uganda Law Society, Isaac Ssemakadde.The decision, conveyed in a letter signed on behalf of the Solicitor General by John Bosco Rujagaata Suuza, director
Several senior NRM figures opposed the endorsement of Speaker Anita Among and Deputy Speaker Thomas Tayebwa during a closed-door party meeting, but President Museveni overruled the dissent and rallied the party behind the duo’s second-term bid.Influential figures within the ruling Nation
