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The words could not have been more clear, if not nerve-jangling. On the eve of Tanzania going to the polls, the chilling effect of unsolicited advice from the incumbent president—Samia ...

Raila Amolo Odinga’s casket, draped in the Kenyan national flag, was transported on a carriage towards his final journey on 19 October 2025. Pallbearers interred his body, next to his ...

Late last year, the world was alerted to the disturbing news that Russia was recruiting hundreds of young African women, aged 18–22, to manufacture drones in a military-industrial compound called Alabuga, 1,000 ...

The NRM party flag-bearer in the 2026 presidential polls and incumbent, Yoweri Museveni, has promised that if he is re-elected, his policies will turbo-charge Uganda’s subsistence-led economy towards the lofty ...

The speech that presidential candidate Yoweri Museveni gave in Otuke district on 3 October 2025 as he barnstormed the Lango subregion saw him pack a lot of information in such ...

If anything serves as a metaphor for the economic malaise in whose throes Uganda appears to be convulsing, it is a mega mall that on weekends cuts a forlorn figure ...

Makerere University Chancellor Crispus Kiyonga announced the appointment of Prof. Sarah Evelyn Nabwire Ssali as Deputy Vice Chancellor in charge of Academic Affairs last week. Kiyonga described the former Dean ...

Justice Jane Frances Abodo did her best to wear a poker face after coming through a vetting process undertaken by the Appointments Committee of the House on Tuesday. Justice Abodo, ...

The defeat Rebecca Kadaga, the first Deputy Prime Minister, suffered at the hands of Speaker Anita Among is symbolic of her innocence, obscured by the shadows of shifting allegiances within ...

After the breadth of the responses from Benon Kigenyi were much shorter than might have been anticipated, Ugandans were looking forward to Tuesday's sitting of the House Committee on Commissions, ...