On 15th December, His Majesty Ronald Muwenda Mutebi Kabaka’s convoy was seen around the Kabaka’njagala road in Lubaga municipality driving to his Mmengo palace office where he usually performs his official Buganda kingdom duties. This was around the same time the National Unity Platform (NUP) president Bobi had set out to pay a courtesy visit to the Buganda kingdom prime minister Charles Peter Mayiga at the kingdom’s administrative seat in Bulange Mmengo, ahead of his presidential campaign in Lubaga later in the day. In ensuring the observation of law and order, there was heavy deployment as usual of the state…
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The Catholic church priest Rev. Fr. Deusdedit Ssekabira under the Masaka Diocese, has formally been slapped with charges of money laundering following over a fortnight in the military detention since he reportedly went missing from his diocesan office. Fr. Ssekabira was arraigned before the Masaka Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday where he was officially read charges of money laundering under Sections 3(b), 119, and 139(1)(a) of the Anti-Money Laundering Act. According to prosecution, between 2023 and 2025 while at Centenary Bank’s Masaka branch, the clergy knowingly or recklessly concealed and misrepresented the ownership of Shs 500 million believed to be proceeds…
By Cedric Mwesigwa. When Jesus Is Adonai (JIA) ministry vision bearers encountered God’s calling regarding the same, it stopped to be a hidden secret but rather an open knowledge to them concerning its future trajectory, but to the neighboring world it looked to be an idea that was farfetched until Saturday 13, December, 2025 when it was realistically and officially launched. The ministry was unveiled at Emerald Hotel in Kampala in a ceremony that saw several men of God from the Ugandan Pentecostal community in gathering to give it an endorsement. These included among others, Pastor Christopher Kigonya from Christian…
The continued detention of the catholic priest Rev. Father Deusdedit Ssekabira by the Ugandan military-UPDF has sparked a legal a debate with different legal minds castigating the act as a clear violation of Uganda’s constitutional and legal safeguards on arrest and detention. Rev. Father Ssekabira who is under Masaka catholic diocese was kidnapped from his NGO office in Maska by men in Uganda Army uniform on 3rd December, and taken to un disclosed location according to the diocese priest Bishop Serverus Jjumba who confirmed in the Saturday 13 December statement. Before his statement, the detainee’s whereabout remained unknown for about…
BENTIU-NEIGHBORING SOUTH SUDAN, For women in South Sudan’s Unity State, survival is shaped as much by silence as by scarcity. Decisions about their bodies and health are often made without their consent, sometimes without care, and frequently too late. While clinics are marked on maps, aid programs are funded and referral systems are outlined in policy, access collapses under flooding, displacement, insecurity and deeply rooted cultural controls. The result is a dangerous gap between available services and what women can actually reach. That gap has consequences. Claire Nakalimo, a sexual and reproductive health specialist with the aid group Cordaid, works…
The M23 armed group says it has agreed to a request from the United States to withdraw from the key town of Uvira in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) after seizing it last week. Corneille Nangaa, leader of the Alliance Fleuve Congo (AFC) rebel coalition, which includes the M23 group, posted a signed statement on X on Tuesday that confirmed fighters would withdraw from the town located in South Kivu province, near the border with Burundi, “as per United States mediation request”. Reporting from Uvira, Al Jazeera’s Alain Uaykani said “nothing had changed” as of Tuesday morning,…
Final outcome on whether the disqualified NUP candidate for 2026 election Busiro East parliamentary seat Mathias Walukagga is reinstated on the ballot or otherwise, will be known on Monday 22 December. This is contained in the High Court’s preliminary ruling held during the December Tuesday Court hearing session in Kampala. The confirmation which is arising out of the petition filed by Walukagga, challenging his disqualification from the race by the Electoral Commission (EC), was given by the trial judge, Simon Peter Kinobe. Walukagga who is also a kadongo kamu singer is appealing against the EC’s recent decision that denominated his…
Brian Ssekumba, a journalist attached to the Christian Television Channel 44 who has been held in Police detention following his arrest on Monday has finally been released. Information from the Uganda Journalists Association (UJA) indicate that Ssenkumba was released last night from Natete Police Division where he had been detained following his arrest earlier in the day. It is understood that at the time of his release, some UJA representatives were at Natete Police Station where they had camped in ensuring that the Channel 44 TV journalist regains his freedom. UJA leadership decried the persistent violation of press freedom by…
A fresh offensive has cast doubt on the durability of accords signed last week in Washington. US President Donald Trump’s plans for peace in the Democratic Republic of Congo are rapidly unravelling amid recriminations from all sides after a further advance into new territory by M23 rebels in the east of the country. In recent days, the rebels, who are allied with Rwanda, have been consolidating control of Uvira, a city positioned on a vital trade corridor along the shores of Lake Tanganyika neighbouring Burundi, and with a population of about 700,000 people. The M23’s capture of the city…
Francis Junior Kateregga is the man who is still recovering from the bodily injuries that were sustained following a berigerent assault on him by the Entebbe Chief Magistrate (CM) Stella Maris Amabilis police guards on Friday 5th December, as he attempted to follow up his frustrated case with the same Court, in pursuit for delayed justice. It all started with Kateregga first reporting to Entebbe Police Division DPC Moses Kalakyire on same date to whom he had presented with warrant of arrest copies dated 26th November 2025, under issuance of CM Amabilis, requiring the Police to urgently arrest Mike Busuulwa…