By Gladys Mukisa. Opposition Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) party president Patrick Amuriat Oboi has hinted on a plan by his party to set up its own tally center to manage the transmission of the 2026 electoral results even when the same plan has faced serious setbacks from the state before. This FDC planned move has been triggered by the concerns of growing patterns of vote rigging from some of its supporters and members during elections, tasking the party leadership to explain its readiness in against the same especially during the 2026 polls. The party supporters and members from Mayuge…
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By Cedrick Mwesigwa Prominent Kampala city businessman Godfrey Kirumira also the Namibian honorary consul to Uganda has been dragged into fraudulent sale of the Democratic Party (DP) multimillion printing machine, the Blazer News Times can exclusively report. The said printer was an initiative under the reign of late Hajj Issa Kikungwe the former party treasurer, aiming at aiding the party that would always be laced in a time long financial hardships, to translate into an alternative source of income for its struggling activities, but also to help the party with printing the campaign posters for its official card holding candidates…
Coup-prone Guinea-Bissau voted on Sunday in presidential and legislative elections, with President Umaro Sissoco Embalo in a tight contest to become the first leader in three decades to win a second consecutive term in the West African nation. He is up against 11 other candidates, the strongest of them relative political newcomer Fernando Dias who has the backing of the party that led the fight for independence from Portugal in the 1960s and 1970s. That party, the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde, was barred from fielding its own candidates for the first time after authorities…
BBC Africa. Cameroonian opposition leader Issa Tchiroma Bakary, who is contesting the outcome of the presidential election, has fled to The Gambia for his safety, The Gambian government has said. Tchiroma Bakary has insisted he is the legitimate winner of the 12 October election, alleging that the result was rigged to give President Paul Biya, 92, an eighth term. The Gambian information ministry said on Sunday that Tchiroma Bakary arrived on 7 November and was allowed to stay on humanitarian grounds. Cameroon’s government had threatened to put him on trial for allegedly inciting violent post-election demonstrations. He denied the allegation,…
The G20 summit in South Africa, a gathering of the world’s major economies, has ended with a joint declaration committing to “multilateral co-operation”. The declaration, which covered climate change mitigation and economic inequality, was adopted despite objections from the US, which boycotted the meeting in Johannesburg. Speaking at the closing ceremony on Sunday, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said the agreement showed “shared goals” outweighed the countries’ differences. American President Donald Trump chose to abstain from the G20 because of a widely discredited claim that South Africa’s white minority is the victim of large-scale killings and land grabs. It was…
Officer in Charge (OC) for Ntaawo police post- Mukono Municipality Emma Bagenda is dead after being gunned down in the cold blood by the suspected criminals. This has been confirmed by the police spokesperson Kituuma Rusoke from the police headquarters in Kampala in the news conference. Rusoke said that ASP Bagenda was gunned down as he attempted to intercept the motorbike for the way laid criminals in Kiwala village- Mukono on Sunday night, upon receiving information that they had occasioned robbery there. He confirmed that Bagenda who died on the spot was in the operation with a police constable whose…
By Gladys Mukisa Friday 21 November 2025. October 26, 2025, was the climax of the celebration to mark 100 years of St. Mary Lubaga Cathedral Catholic church call it centennial, drawing celebrants including government officials and clergy from across various denominations in attendance. Notable religious figures from the non-Catholic community were the Anglican church’s Archbishop Dr. Steven Kazimba Mugalu and Bishop Moses Banja of the Namirembe Diocese. Usually when the church holds spiritual ceremonies like St Mary’s centennial, opposition political figures are not stopped from attending fellowships as such. However, this time, the opposition NUP president Bobi Wine could not…
By Gladys Mukisa. Friday 21 November 2025. The founding father for the Uganda Journalists Association (UJA) mzee Kintu Musoke wants his grave to be painted with marks ascertaining that he is its founding father. This was revealed by mzee Musoke during his interaction with a team of the UJA leaders who had paid a courtesy visit to him in at his home in Kalungu Bakijjulura- Masaka sub region recently. UJA leaders included the president Mathias Rukundo, secretary general Emmanuel Kirunda and Issa Kigongo- secretary for external relations. Mzee Musoke recalled how an idea that resulted into birth of the Uganda…
By Reuters. Friday Nov, 21, 2025. KINSHASA, Nov 21 (Reuters) – Islamic State-linked rebels have killed 89 civilians in multiple attacks in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo’s Lubero territory, the U.N. peacekeeping mission in the Central African country, known as MONUSCO, said on Friday. The attacks were carried out by fighters from the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) in several localities of North Kivu province between November 13 and November 19, and the 89 killed included at least 20 women and an undetermined number of children, MONUSCO said in a statement. In one of the attacks, it said, the rebels attacked…
By Gladys Mukisa. Saturday 15 November, 2025. Security experts have warned against the possibility by the Uganda Prisons Authorities of hounding their infamous staff Lawrence Ampeirwe aka Ampe who accused them of being partisan, out of the prisons service. Ampe a prison warder No. 17974, stationed in Ngora -Teso Sub region, gained prominence earlier this month when he publicly chose to expose what has come to be described by many people as un just practices by his bosses in the force through recorded videos on his Tik Tok account. In some of those viral video recordings, the visibly courageous Ampe…