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Operatives from the State House Anti-Corruption Unit (SH-ACU) have confirmed the arrest of President Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni’s Resident District Commissioner (RDC) for Bukedea as well…

National Resistance Movement (NRM) Electoral Commission (EC) Chairperson Dr Fred Tanga Odoi has explained why the ruling party lost the Oyam North byelection to opposition Uganda…

Uganda People’s Congress (UPC) candidate Dr Eunice Otuko Apio had won the Oyam North parliamentary by-election. Apio polled 15,718 votes – about 49.12 per cent, beating…

Internal affairs minister Maj Gen (Rtd) Kahinda Otafiire has spoken out on reports that he is backing his son, a soldier, to challenge President Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni’s son Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba’s quest to replace his aged father who has ruled Uganda for nearly four decades.

A meeting between Ugandan President Gen Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni and Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba, his son, advisor and leader of the MK Movement, has become a talking point after photos from the convention. This State House meeting between Museveni and his son Gen Kainerugaba’s MK Movement Central Executive Committee (CEC) members is some sort of moment of truth for Ugandans and observers closely following the debate on transition and or succession from the nearly four decades of the NRA/NRM rule.

The fallout between Namyalo and Kitata is said to have been occasioned by some sort of power struggle between the two prominent ONC officials, with the PRO reportedly working to outshine his boss. Some reports even indicated that Kitata had attempted to meet Gen Museveni who was shocked and called Namyalo to understand why she sent the Lwengo LCV boss to represent her for an important meeting with the country’s number one.

It was, therefore, not surprising that social media tried to drag Che Otafiire, one of Kahinda Otafiire’s son, into the 2026 presidential race. Che is a soldier – just like his father, Museveni and his son Muhoozi.

Uganda will host the first East African Post-Election Conference, the African Electoral Alliance (AEA), which is organizing the event, has announced.

Officials at National Unity Platform (NUP) headquarters in Kamwokya, Kampala have expressed their disappointment with the way Makerere University is handling students’ guild presidential elections for 2023-2024 after two of the main opposition party’s candidates were disqualified from the guild race.