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Catch all the news about Uganda’s presidential, parliamentary and local council elections.
Ugandan opposition leaders Dr Kizza Besigye and Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine have castigated after President Yoweri Museveni reconstituted the Electoral Commission (EC), filling it with his ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) cadres ahead of the 2026 presidential election.
Justice and Constitutional Affairs Minister Norbert Mao has claimed that intelligence reports have proven that foreign agents were behind protests by National Unity Platform (NUP) leader Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine in November 2020.
SUCCESSION: Some powerful members of President Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni’s First Family are said to be in the queue to take over from the elderly Ugandan leader in 2026 – or at least in the year he may choose or be forced to retire.
It was all joy, celebration and dancing as Hon Genensio Tumuramye, the former Kashongi County MP, donated a total of 13 communal saucepans to the people…
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.