Continued detention of an out spoken human rights defender Dr. Sarah Bireete has drawn serious concerns and reactions from various human rights defenders and political actors with all demanding her immediate un conditional release. Dr. Bireete who is also the Executive Director of the Centre for Constitutional Governance (CCG), was arrested on Tuesday from her home, in a joint operation conducted by the police and the military according to the Kampala Metropolitan police spokesperson Rachael Kawala who confirmed she was in the police custody. Prior to her arrest, Bireete had made a series of social media posts in which she…
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In 2017, the Uganda Peoples Defence Forces (UPDF) personnel under the Fisheries Protection Unit (FPU) were deployed on Ugandan Lakes by the Commander in Chief (CiC) of the armed forces also the Uganda’s president Gen. Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, to curb illegal fishing and increase fish stocks, bringing their span therein now to eight years. The FPU outfit now renamed the 155 Marines Battalion, is to be working under the command and administration of the UPDF Marines Brigade commander Brig. Michael Nyarwa with Maj Joseph Ssebukeera as a Commanding Officer, according to the Friday 26 December statement by the army acting…
While on his presidential campaign in Buliisa Town Council Grounds-Bunyoro sub region on Thursday 11th December, president Museveni also the Commander of the Armed Forces (CiC) revealed that when he was in Ntoroko district, he was informed by someone that his motorcycles were taken away when he was intercepted transporting immature fish. According to the president, when that person went back to follow up, he was instead threatened. Gen. Museveni noted that he had received numerous reports from districts like Ntoroko where soldiers have been confiscating motorcycles, immature fish and threatening any one attempting to reclaim the property, saying they…
By Glady Mukisa In what has come exclusively to be established by this Website as a choreographed strategy for the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) party not to widen the gap for MP numbers in the 12th parliament after the 2026 elections, the party president Patrick Oboi Amuriat (POA) had to lose his 2026 presidential bid for parliamentary, to which he had retreated. Oboi is now the official holder of the party flag for Kanyum parliamentary seat in Teso sub region. His retreat to the parliamentary race came into an equation following the 2021 chaotic elections in which he was…
Advocates for sustainable development including the youth are in panic following the ongoing restructuring process at the United Nations (UN) that has left many UN funded activities across the globe significantly re aligned. The said process which has seen the international body experience 20% budget cuts for the year 2026, followed a sharp budget slash to the UN agencies by its member states including among others, the United States (US). This current development is simply indicative of the tougher times to come as far as far as financing the UN global activities including development agendas is concerned. Alvin Mutebi one…
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…
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…