Museveni’s challengers over the years
When President Museveni shot to power in 1986 by gun after a five-year guerrilla war, he famously declared that Africa’s biggest problem was leaders who overstayed in o...
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Gorret Namugga Speaks Out on Reports Linking Her to Kalangala Woman MP Race
National Unity Platform (NUP) politician Gorret Namugga has addressed reports linking her to the upcoming Kalangala District Woman MP by-election.The seat fell vacant fol...
Kikuube vice chairman Opio Vicent withdraws from LC5 by-election race
While addressing the media in Hoima City yesterday, Opio said he realised that contesting in the by-election would affect his secured district councillor’s position by...
Namuganza win disputed as four Namutumba candidates file court petitions
From left, Betty Nakisita, Persis Namuganza, and Yona Kayogera. Their parliamentary election victories are being challenged in court.Four candidates who lost parliamentar...
Mao Seeks Financial Help To Defend His Laro-Pece Seat In Court
Norbert Mao, the Minister of Justice and Constitutional affairs plays the drum during his home welcoming celebration at Kaunda parade ground in Gulu City on July 22 2023...
PAY OR FACE JAIL: Court Orders Former MP Odonga Otto
The High Court sitting in Agago District has ordered former Aruu County Member of Parliament Samuel Odonga-Otto to pay more than Shillings 22 million in legal costs to in...
Balancing Sovereignty and Openness: Regulating Foreign Influence without Stifling Growth
No man is an island, Entire of itself; Every man is a piece of the continent, A part of the main.”The European poet who wrote those words 400 years ago has become relev...
Thrones wobble?
The once-seemingly impenetrable fortress surrounding Speaker Anita Among is showing its first visible cracks. The first signs emerged months ago when Norbert Mao, the Min...
Speakership Race: Wanyoto Writes to Museveni
Mbale City Woman MP-elect Lydia Wanyoto has formally written to President Yoweri Museveni, who also chairs the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM), expressing her i...
Meet Hannah Karema Tumukunde: The Miss Uganda Baddie Who Has Traded The Runway For Makerere’s Most Fiercely Contested Political Stage
Of the thirteen candidates cleared to contest for the 92nd Makerere University Guild Presidency, Hannah Karema Tumukunde has announced her candidature under one of the mo...