The United States has issued a security warning regarding Tanzania ahead of scheduled anti-government protests expected on Tuesday, December 9. In a statement on Monday, December 1, the U.S. Embassy in Dar es Salaam noted that travelers to Tanzania may face nationwide curfews, roadblocks, internet blackouts, ferry cancellations to Zanzibar, and disruptions to international flights during the protests. According to the embassy, foreign nationals are also likely to experience increased attention from Tanzanian authorities, especially after the recent post-election fracas that led to the destruction of infrastructure, use of force against civilians, internet shutdowns, and travel disruptions. The embassy says…
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By Gladys Mukisa Battle of words has ensued between the FDC presidential flag bearer Nathan Nandala Mafabi and NUP presidential hopeful Bobi Wine supporters, arising from the candidate’s performance during the Sunday 30th presidential debate by the Nation Media Group (NMG) which manages the Nation Television (NTV) Uganda. Eight presidential candidates as they contest for the country’s top office in on an going presidential campaign had been invited, but five attended, while three candidates did not make a show. The attendees included Nathan Nandala Mafabi (FDC), Gen. Gregory Mugisha Muntu (ANT), Bobi Wine (NUP), Joseph Elton Mabirizi and Frank Kabinga…
Inspector General of Police (IGP) Abbas Byakagaba has broken silence over the police act of unleashing dogs to the NUP president Bobi Wine supporters during his presidential campaign in Kawempe division last month. This follows the public condemnation of the act which was described by the Uganda Law Society vice president Anthony Asiimwe as a colonial repressive human rights violation tool that should never be deployed against enjoyment of the Ugandan’s civil liberties that are guaranteed in the constitution, in the statement. Citing the apartheid regime where they were used by the whites against blacks in South Africa, Asiimwe condemned…
BCC Guinea-Bissau’s deposed President Umaro Sissoco Embaló has arrived in neighbouring Senegal following his release by military forces that toppled his government this week, Senegal’s authorities have announced. It follows negotiations by the regional West African bloc Ecowas to secure his transfer amid rising tensions in Guinea-Bissau. Senegal’s foreign ministry said in a statement that Embaló had landed in the country “safe and sound” on a chartered military flight late on Thursday. The military in Guinea-Bissau has already sworn in a new transitional leader, Gen Horta N’Tam, who will rule the coup-prone country for a year. Sandwiched between Senegal and…
Aljazeera. General Horta Inta-A has been sworn in as the transitional president of Guinea-Bissau, one day after army officers announced they had deposed the country’s president, staging the West African nation’s latest military coup. “I have just been sworn in to lead the high command,” Inta-A declared, after taking the oath of office in a ceremony at the military’s headquarters on Thursday, AFP journalists observed. Having served until now as the chief of staff of the country’s army, Inta-A is considered to have been close in recent years with President Umaro Sissoco Embalo, who was deposed on Wednesday. He said…
Uganda’s great political contest is probably not erupting in rallies or through slogans, it is unfolding quietly across village boundaries, homesteads and rising factory blocks. It is felt when a father divides his half-acre among five children or when a young graduate heads to Kampala because the soil at home can no longer sustain a dream or when a bulldozer carves a new industrial road through land where cattle once grazed. It is the story of land, not just as territory, but as inheritance, livelihood, identity and future. I can say with a fair degree of certainty that in 2026,…
africanews The African Union, ECOWAS election observer mission and West African leaders have condemned the latest military takeover in Guinea-Bissau. In a joint statement released on Wednesday, just hours after the coup, the missions voiced their concerns over the arrest of the incumbent President, Embalo Sissoco and some of their agents. The observers stated, “It’s unfortunate that this (coup) announcement was made just as the missions had finished meetings with the two main presidential candidates, who both assured us they would accept the will of the people.” The observer missions, which included Mozambique’s former President Filipe Jacinto Nyusi and Nigeria’s…
BBC A group of military officers say they have seized control of Guinea-Bissau amid reports that the president, Umaro Sissoco Embaló, has been arrested. Shortly after gunshots were heard in the capital, Bissau, government sources told the BBC that Embaló had been detained. The officers then appeared on state TV, saying they had suspended the electoral process, as the West African nation awaited the outcome of Sunday’s presidential election. They said they were acting to thwart a plot by unnamed politicians who had “the support of a well-known drug baron” to destabilise the country, and announced the closure of its…
By Gladys Mukisa A well-orchestrated plan has been laid down by the National Resistance Movement (NRM) party leaders to capture the Kawempe South and North parliamentary seats in 2026 elections, Blazer News Times has exclusively established. According to the highly placed sources in NRM party, this plan which is aimed at driving the NRM’s Hajjat Madinah Nsereko (Kawempe South) and Hajjat Faridah Nambi (Kawempe North) to parliament, is arising out of the flopped plan during the March 13, 2025 Kawempe North parliamentary by election. The Kawempe North parliamentary by election was marred by violence and brutality against journalists and electors…
By Our Reporter. The fallen Uganda National Boxing team player late Isaac Zebra Ssenyange commonly known as Mando is back in the news following a strange revelation by the NUP president Bobi Wine that he was furnishing him with information, despite his earlier defection to the Gen. Yoweri Kaguta Museveni’s NRM party camp. Mando, initially a loyal supporter of Bobi Wine which later shifted to president Museveni, was gunned down on 30th December 2020 ahead of the January 14, 2021 elections, under un clear circumstances. The official statement by the Kampala metropolitan region deputy police spokesperson Luke Owoyesigire claimed that…