By Dusman Okee A known scholar, a political commentator, a journalist and an ardent critic of the National Resistance Movement (NRM) Government, Charles Onyango-Obbo, after a long time of observation, wrote on social media platform X: “In a single and very rare speech, President Museveni’s charismatic brother, Gen. (rtd) Salim Saleh, can admit to past mistakes, personal failings and laugh at himself more than his elder brother and the Ugandan political class combined, can do in a year. He does not seek applause or seek validation.” It is said, if a poacher turns game keeper, then, there is a keen…
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On Tuesday 29th September 2026, a pastor and his wife coronated as King and Queen. The occasion calls not only for celebration but also for reflection on the responsibilities that come with the crown. African kingship is not merely ceremonial. An Omukama (King) is expected to preserve, protect and promote the cultural identity, traditions and institutions of his subjects. Yet some traditional practices, rituals and taboos may conflict with Christian teachings. This raises a legitimate question of conscience for the Omukama. If, as a pastor, he has previously stood on the pulpit teaching that certain African rituals, beliefs and traditional…
The real test of Uganda’s flagship rural-transformation programme is not how much money reaches the parish, but how much productive capacity remains after the money has been spent By Emmanuel Mihiingo Kaija There is a powerful idea at the centre of Uganda’s Parish Development Model: if the state can take development planning, finance, agricultural support, enterprise development and social transformation closer to the household, then rural Ugandans who remain trapped in subsistence production can gradually enter a more productive and monetised economy. The official conception of the Parish Development Model is explicitly multi-sectoral, with the parish intended to become the…
19 generals, institutional renewal and the future of Uganda’s military leadership By Emmanuel Mihiingo Kaija Are not there moments in the life of a military institution when personnel changes become more significant than the names appearing on the retirement list? Uganda is now approaching one of those moments. The Uganda Peoples’ Defence Forces (UPDF) has confirmed the retirement of 19 general officers as part of a wider retirement exercise affecting personnel across the military hierarchy, from generals to privates, with reporting indicating that 1,591 personnel are scheduled to leave active service during the current exercise. Among the senior officers associated…
Who is Odrek Rwabwogo? By Lawrence MAYANJA Odrek Mugisha Rwabwogo is an author, farmer, businessman, ideologue, instructor, and Special Advisor to President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda. Rwabwogo was born on September 17, 1969, as the fifth child in a family of seven children. He was born and raised in Naama, Kinoni Sub County, Nyabushozi Constituency, Kiruhura district. He was born to the late Thomas Rwabwogo and the late Mrs. Erina Kebihembo Rwabwogo who were simple peasants. None of his parents attended school; instead, they learned to read and write at church. Sadly, Rwabwogo lost both his parents at an early…
A Historical Reconstruction of Lethal Colonial Governance in Uganda and Kenya (1890–1962) By Emmanuel Mihiingo Kaija Researcher | Scholar | Civilizational Architect Emkaijascholar@outlook.com I have to be very upfront and almost blunt about how I am approaching this whole thing, because when I sit with the colonial archive for Uganda and Kenya, I am not looking at something clean or neatly structured, I am dealing with a messy, layered system where administration, force, economy, and everyday life were all tangled together in ways that make it extremely hard to separate “governance” from what I can only describe as sustained patterns…
The Overthrow of Obote II, 2nd of 72 Stories of DP@72 Unco- ordinated movement of troops” was a phrase that came to light prior to the overthrow of the Obote II regime in 1985. A lot of uncertainty ruled Kampala, the NRA guerilla war raging on and the 6:00pm BBC program “FOCUS ON AFRICA” the only authentic news source we had giving us updates every 6:00pm. Of course, you had to tune in with very low volume fearing to be heard by UPC functionaries then. As a bonus Ugandan stringer Henry Gombya always fed us with the latest news on…
Journalists under the Uganda Journalists Association (UJA) have opposed the ban imposed by the judiciary against further use of the smart equipment including among others, mobile phones and tablets by the Court covering journalists in the ongoing Court case of Uganda vs Dr. Kiiza Besigye and others, which is before the High Court Criminal Division of Uganda. Earlier in the day, the judiciary had released a set of the new guidelines contained in its official press release dated Wednesday July 29, 2026, saying they are aimed at ensuring security, orderly proceedings and continued public access to the hearing while preserving…
On Saturday, senior NRM party senior cadre also the commissioner in charge of RDCs Fred Bamwine clashed with the newly party recruit Abdul Katuntu formerly Bugweri County MP over the ongoing pattern of the civilian abductions. The sharp disagreement stemmed from what Katuntu called justification of the security operative’s lawlessness conduct by commissioner Bamwine. It was in reference to the recent abduction of the former Butambala County MP Muwanga, and the viral video of the plain clothed operatives who on Monday 20th fired several gunshots at Kisekka market in Kampala down town after traders therein blocked their attempted kidnap of…
Security, Prosperity, Pan-Africanism, and the Strategic State in the Twenty-First Century By Emmanuel Mihiingo Kaija Researcher | Scholar | Pan-African Civilizational Systems Architect Emkaijascholar@outlook.com So, if you really sit down and try to make sense of what political philosophy looks like in the case of President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, it quickly stops being just “theory on paper” and turns into something more like a living, breathing system that has been tested in real-time, under pressure, across decades of Uganda’s post-conflict reconstruction, and honestly, across the wider East African political environment as well, because what you are looking at here is…