Elections

Uganda internet users report blocked Facebook access via Airtel and MTN ahead of elections

Just a day to Uganda's January 14 elections, users accessing the internet via MTN and Airtel Uganda networks have reported…

6 years ago

Treat it with the contempt it deserves: FDC frowns upon claims that Amuriat had agreed to pull out of race to back Tumukunde

Main opposition Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) has dismissed as fake a letter crafted to allege that its presidential candidate…

6 years ago

Amuriat detained at Katwe Police Station hours after Court granted him bail following a night in Mpigi police cell

Uganda's main opposition Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) presidential candidate Patrick Oboi Amuriat (POA) has been detained in Kampala hours…

6 years ago

Facebook breaks silence on blocked anti-Bobi Wine accounts

Social media giant Facebook claims it blocked several pro-government Ugandan accounts over Coordinated Inauthentic Behaviour (CIB) ahead of January 14…

6 years ago

Besigye fumes after Amuriat spends night in police cells, says election is military operation to keep Museveni in power at all costs

Veteran opposition leader Dr Kizza Besigye has says the latest violent arrest of main opposition Forum for Democratic Change (FDC)…

6 years ago

Museveni minister reports Facebook, Twitter to International Telecommunication Union for blocking anti-Bobi Wine accounts

Gender, labour and social development minister Frank Tumwebaze has petitioned Houlin Zhao, the Secretary General of the International Telecommunication Union…

6 years ago

Revealed: Mpigi police officer who punched FDC presidential candidate Amuriat is sworn NRM cadre

The police officer who punched main opposition Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) presidential candidate Patrick Oboi Amuriat (POA) has been…

6 years ago

Ronald Mayinja: Yes, I said Bobi Wine would beat Museveni – but it was a mistake they’re using to frame me

Singer Ronald Mayinja has admitted he told The Observer journalist Yudaya Nangonzi National Unity Platform (NUP) presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi…

6 years ago

Should I grab Museveni’s collar & throw him out of State House? – Muntu responds to supporters telling him to be aggressive like Besigye

Alliance for National Transformation (ANT) presidential candidate Maj Gen (Rtd) Gregg Mugisha Muntu has responded to calls on him by…

6 years ago

Besigye warns IGP Ochola he will end badly like Kayihura

Veteran opposition leader Dr Kizza Besigye has told Uganda Police Force (UPF) chief IGP Martins Okoth Ochola it could end…

6 years ago