The raging verbal war between Gen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba the Chief of Defence Forces (CDF) and Information-National Guidance Minister Dr. Chris Baryomunsi has exposed the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) government into the state of Animal Farm politics where hierarchy seem to be having either less or a lip service consideration. The author George Orwell partly tries to show in his book titled the Animal Farm how the rules were instituted upon agreement by the Animals to foster and steer forward the farm good management practices, following its takeover from the original owner. One of the set rules that had to…
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Uganda’s Information and National Guidance Minister Dr. Chris Baryomunsi has publicly decried what he has called the contradictory tweets by the Chief of Defence Forces (CDF) also president Yoweri Kaguta Museveni’s son Gen. Kainerugaba Muhoozi, on circumstances surrounding the NUP president Bobi Wine’s abandonment of his home since the January 15,2026 elections, as well as the continued heavy presence of the security forces there. Speaking during the Saturday January, 31 Capital Gang talk show on Capital FM Radio, Dr. Baryomunsi stated that Gen. Muhoozi’s tweets makes his work difficult while referencing to what he called the contradictions they carry. He…
United States of America (USA) Senate Foreign Relations Committee has condemned the January 15,2026 Uganda’s elections, describing them as a “hollow exercise” designed to extend President Yoweri Museveni’s four-decade rule. The committee chairman Senator Jim Risch said in the statement released on Friday 23, January, that Uganda’s elections were compared to recent polls in neighbouring Tanzania, which he said were similarly staged to maintain entrenched ruling parties in power. “Uganda’s elections, like the recent elections in Tanzania, were a hollow exercise, staged to legitimise President Museveni’s seventh term and four decades in power,” part of Risch’s statement reads. Risch warned…
State minister for Kampala Metropolitan Affairs Christopher Kabuye Kyofatogabye is under the spotlight over the sharp accusations of rigging out the January 15, 2026 parliamentary polls through which he was declared the winning MP candidate to represent Nakaseke Central in the 12th Uganda parliament. Minister Kyofatogabye (NRM) win was declared by the area Electoral Commission Returning Officer (RO) Aida Tusiime amid rejection from his main challenger the opposition incumbent MP candidate Allan Mayanja (NUP) who described as falsified and fake the declared results. The disputed Electoral Commission (EC) results put Kyofatogabye at a score of 13,678 votes, while Mayanja at…
Fifteen-year era of Erias Lukwago as the Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) political head has been ended following his terrible defeat by Ronald Balimwezo in a hotly contested election that was marred with claims of declaration of falsified results by the Uganda Electoral Commission (EC) officials. Lukwago a prominent high court advocate was running on the ticket of the newly formed Peoples Front for Freedom (PFF) party, while Balimwezo a civil engineer held the flag for the largest opposition party, the National Unity Platform (NUP). The Kampala lord mayoral race had attracted six other contestants, bringing their total number to…
Kalungu West incumbent MP Joseph Gozanga Ssewungu (NUP) can now have a breather after more than four of 102 ballot boxes that had been assembled to carry out a recount exercise of the votes resulting into his declared victory, were found having been tampered with. The planned vote recount exercise arises out of the Masaka Chief Magistrate Herbert Asiimwe order directing for the same, following an application filed by Ssewungu’s political rival Ismael Ssajja Ssemakula (independent candidate) under which he challenges his victory that he claims left a lot to be desired. The announced Uganda Electoral Commission (EC) official results…
January 22nd mayoral and local government leaders’ election have been concluded and vote counting is under away. In the Uganda’s capital Kampala, the lord mayoral tight race is between the National Unity Platform (NUP) candidate Eng. Ronald Balimwezo and the Peoples Front for Freedom (PFF) party lawyer Erias Lukwago. Preliminary results that have been announced by the Electoral Commission (EC) Returning Officers at Polling Stations from different divisions of Kampala put Balimwezo in an early lead against incumbent lord mayor Lukwago. Kampala is city is made up of five division including; Kampala Central, Lubaga, Nakawa, Kawempe and Makindye. By…
Kanyange Polling Station in Maganjo has this afternoon been invaded by face masked men who took over the ongoing polling activity and started meting out violence on Returning Officers (ROs) and other ordinary voters. During the invasion, one male RO was hit with a hard object on the mouth, leaving his teeth terribly shaking and damaged. After occasioning this mayhem, they took away all the cast ballot papers with ballot boxes which forced voters and ROs to temporarily flee the station. All this went on when the deployed Police Constables had left the polling station. This story is still developing,…
KCCA junior coach Brian Ssenyondo has called on his players to lift up their standard when they face off Maroons on Wednesday at its home ground. This was after a terrible defeat to Police. KCCA loss deprived them of a chance to maintain the top spot although stands a chance to get back to winning ways against Maroons. Being one of the toughest opponents in the division, Ssenyondo doesn’t want to take chance. According to the KCCA coach, Luzira is not a joking place to visit, saying they have worked on their game management to enable them bring something positive…
Prominent human rights defender Dr. Sarah Bireete’s bail application has met a setback after being opposed by the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) that there were insufficient grounds for her release, opening the window for her further remand at Luzira prison. Dr. Bireete, who has been in jail since January 2, 2026, faces charges of unlawfully obtaining and disclosing voters’ information without the consent of the Electoral Commission. Bireete is also accused of violating the Data Protection and Privacy Act 2019, when she allegedly shared sensitive electoral data in districts including Kampala, Mukono, and Wakiso between January…