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Silent Crisis: Uganda’s rising Lake Nalubale (Victoria) water levels

Silent Crisis: Uganda’s rising Lake Nalubale (Victoria) water levels

The water levels of Lake Victoria – that the locals call Lake Nalubale – have risen dramatically in recent years, displacing communities, destroying livelihoods, and causing ecological damage – yet public awareness and policy responses remain weak.Despite an article in the New Vision

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Political policing in Museveni’s Uganda: what it means for the 2026 elections

Political policing in Museveni’s Uganda: what it means for the 2026 elections

Police officers at the entrance to National Unity Platform headquarters in Kampala in 2021. Photo by Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP via Getty ImagesUganda’s police have long faced criticism for politically charged interventions. These include episodes in which lethal force has been used in ways tha

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How Uganda’s police became Museveni’s political weapon ahead of the 2026 elections

How Uganda’s police became Museveni’s political weapon ahead of the 2026 elections

Research shows Uganda’s police operate as a pillar of the ruling NRM, shaping campaigns, suppressing opposition and mobilising youth ahead of the 2026 elections, raising concerns over partisan policing.How Uganda’s police became Museveni’s political weapon ahead of the 2026 elections

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EC Faces Pushback from Clergy Over Polling Station Restrictions

EC Faces Pushback from Clergy Over Polling Station Restrictions

Meanwhile, police and the military have come under criticism for alleged human rights abuses, including beating, shooting, teargas use, and arrests of supporters of National Unity Platform (NUP) presidential candidate Robert Ssentamu Kyagulanyi across different parts of the country.Justice

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Enkuuka Large Crowds Proved That CBS is Bigger Than NUP Media & We Are The Ones Commanding Buganda, Not Kavule! Radio Manager Abbey Mukiibi Brags

Enkuuka Large Crowds Proved That CBS is Bigger Than NUP Media & We Are The Ones Commanding Buganda, Not Kavule! Radio Manager Abbey Mukiibi Brags

CBS Programs Manager Abbey Mukiibi Nkaga has thanked MTN and Gen Salim Saleh’s OWC for partnering with Kabaka’s CBS fm radio to pull off the 2025 Enkuuka edition, which he says turned out bigger and more successful than detractors wanted it to be.In his Friday radio interview, Abbey Mu

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Leaders Push for Electricity Connection at Zombo’s Shs 2.6 Billion Modern Health Facility

Leaders Push for Electricity Connection at Zombo’s Shs 2.6 Billion Modern Health Facility

ZOMBO — Health authorities in Zombo District have called on political leaders and Members of Parliament to urgently lobby for the extension of national grid electricity to the newly commissioned Amwonyu Health Centre III in Akaa Sub-County, citing the need for reliable power to fully optimize s

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Uganda: Nup Members Who Defected to NRM Make Swift U-Turn After 'Empty Promises' in Mubende

Uganda: Nup Members Who Defected to NRM Make Swift U-Turn After 'Empty Promises' in Mubende

Tension and confusion marked a political gathering in Mubende Municipality after members of the National Unity Platform who had earlier defected to the National Resistance Movement made an abrupt return to NUP, citing what they described as empty promises from government officials.The grou

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Inside Uganda’s billion-dollar struggle to quit charcoal

Inside Uganda’s billion-dollar struggle to quit charcoal

Uganda faces a multibillion-dollar deadlock as charcoal remains the primary fuel for 82 percent of Kampala households.KAMPALA, Uganda — Behind the heavy scent of woodsmoke that hangs over Kampala every evening lies a multibillion-dollar economic deadlock. Despite a flurry of executive or

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The difference between riot and protest – A case of Uganda

The difference between riot and protest – A case of Uganda

Supporters of Uganda's opposition leader Kizza Besigye participate in the 'walk to work' campaign that protests higher food and fuel prices in Kalerwe suburb on Thursday, April 21, 2011 (Photo/Ronald Kabuubi/AP)By Oweyegha-AfunaduulaI do not usually argue with my children, whose age

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OPM starts beneficiary identification for UGX 76bn cattle restocking plan

OPM starts beneficiary identification for UGX 76bn cattle restocking plan

Reader modeOPM starts beneficiary identification for UGX 76bn cattle restocking plandailyexpress.co.ug9hCattle graze in northern Uganda, where communities affected by war and displacement await implementation of the UGX 76 billion national restocking programme.A

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