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By Fred Kibuuka Today we examine the factors that push the “Baganda” to hate Katikkiro Charles Peter Mayiga (Kingdom premier). You will hear all the outburst…
By Faith Odhiambo I speak to you on this black Tuesday not just as an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya but equally as a…
… I am also fully in the war against obwiibi (theft) of government money, obutagambirwa (not listening to guidance) and okweragyiira, okwetuminkiriza (doing things that are…
[In his] State of the Nation Address to parliament, President Yoweri Museveni revealed that he now has hard evidence against corruption racketeers between the Ministry of…
On June 13, 2024, about 17 days to the end of the 2023-2024 financial year, Matia Kasaija, the Minister of Finance, Planning and Economic Development (MoFPED), read…
Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has today, June 06, delivered the 2024 state of the nation address at the Kololo Ceremonial Grounds in the capital Kampala. Most…
Masaka has played a significant role — and paid a heavy price — in Uganda’s political history since it’s establishment as a township in the 1950s. It was a battleground in the 1970s, especially in 1979 when the Tanzanian army bombed to the ground most of its infrastructure as they drove Iddi Amin from power. From September to December 1985, dictator Museveni’s rebels laid siege on and eventually captured Masaka from the UNLA forces, which paved the way for Kampala’s eventual collapse one month later in January 1986.
The remarkable disregard for cultural leaders by National Unity Platform (NUP) deputy publicist Alex Waiswa Mufumbiro must have conveyed restlessness to every Buganda Royal, including King Ronald Muwenda Mutebi.
The Forum for Democratic Change (FDC), the short-lived and vanquished former leading opposing party is on a death row from suicide, and neither Kizza Besigye, Patrick Oboi Amuriat nor Erias Lukwago can salvage it, at least not before the 2026 general elections. The return of Besigye, from ‘political holiday’ to use his own words will certainly complicate its political maneuvers with other opposition groups especially NUP that displaced FDC as the leading opposition party in and outside parliament.