The M23 armed group says it has agreed to a request from the United States to withdraw from the key town of Uvira in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) after seizing it last week. Corneille Nangaa, leader of the Alliance Fleuve Congo (AFC) rebel coalition, which includes the M23 group, posted a signed statement on X on Tuesday that confirmed fighters would withdraw from the town located in South Kivu province, near the border with Burundi, “as per United States mediation request”. Reporting from Uvira, Al Jazeera’s Alain Uaykani said “nothing had changed” as of Tuesday morning,…
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Final outcome on whether the disqualified NUP candidate for 2026 election Busiro East parliamentary seat Mathias Walukagga is reinstated on the ballot or otherwise, will be known on Monday 22 December. This is contained in the High Court’s preliminary ruling held during the December Tuesday Court hearing session in Kampala. The confirmation which is arising out of the petition filed by Walukagga, challenging his disqualification from the race by the Electoral Commission (EC), was given by the trial judge, Simon Peter Kinobe. Walukagga who is also a kadongo kamu singer is appealing against the EC’s recent decision that denominated his…
Brian Ssekumba, a journalist attached to the Christian Television Channel 44 who has been held in Police detention following his arrest on Monday has finally been released. Information from the Uganda Journalists Association (UJA) indicate that Ssenkumba was released last night from Natete Police Division where he had been detained following his arrest earlier in the day. It is understood that at the time of his release, some UJA representatives were at Natete Police Station where they had camped in ensuring that the Channel 44 TV journalist regains his freedom. UJA leadership decried the persistent violation of press freedom by…
A fresh offensive has cast doubt on the durability of accords signed last week in Washington. US President Donald Trump’s plans for peace in the Democratic Republic of Congo are rapidly unravelling amid recriminations from all sides after a further advance into new territory by M23 rebels in the east of the country. In recent days, the rebels, who are allied with Rwanda, have been consolidating control of Uvira, a city positioned on a vital trade corridor along the shores of Lake Tanganyika neighbouring Burundi, and with a population of about 700,000 people. The M23’s capture of the city…
Francis Junior Kateregga is the man who is still recovering from the bodily injuries that were sustained following a berigerent assault on him by the Entebbe Chief Magistrate (CM) Stella Maris Amabilis police guards on Friday 5th December, as he attempted to follow up his frustrated case with the same Court, in pursuit for delayed justice. It all started with Kateregga first reporting to Entebbe Police Division DPC Moses Kalakyire on same date to whom he had presented with warrant of arrest copies dated 26th November 2025, under issuance of CM Amabilis, requiring the Police to urgently arrest Mike Busuulwa…
Gladys Mukisa. On 15th January 2026, legible Ugandan voters will be descending to the ballot boxes while exercising their constitutional right in ensuring renewal of the social contract for their choice leaders in the next five years (2026-2031), call it general elections. The awaited elections under the management of the national justice Simon Byabakama Electoral Commission (EC), were preceded by the campaign on goings, unveiled in October with clear kurt binding guidelines on the playing candidates and their supporters(voters). Part of the guidelines is that one addressing how the campaign gatherings should be conducted by the political actors in liaison…
About 200,000 people have fled their homes in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in recent days, the United Nations says, as Rwanda-backed rebels swarm a strategic town just days after a United States-led peace effort, which now appears under severe threat. The M23 armed group pushed into and around the strategic city of Uvira in South Kivu province on Wednesday, local authorities said, as part of a new offensive in which at least 74 people had been killed, according to the UN. The latest fighting comes despite a US-mediated peace agreement signed last week by the Congolese…
Senior presidential advisor on industry and Mawokota North National Resistance Movement (NRM) party parliamentary flag bearer in 2026 elections Annie Amelia Kyambadde has urged her fellow party cadres to embrace what she has called political reality, considering the new dynamics in the Ugandan elective political landscape. Kyambadde who was recently addressing a team of her campaign supporters in the constituency noted that, the landscape has changed significantly to the point of facing rejection from the voters. “Where things have reached, we no longer make sense to the voters. When you go to people every one looks at you as an…
Blazer News Reporter. Some ex National Resistance Army (NRA) combatants that participated in the 1980- 86 bush war armed struggle that brought the current National Resistance Movement (NRM) government to power, have spoken out on what has famously come to be known as criminal electoral violence by the serving uniformed military and police officers to the Ugandans. The violence in question which has played out in various forms including brutality, torture, electrification, frogging, tear gas and pepper spray, have been very common during the opposition presidential candidate Bobi Wine campaign rallies in Mbarara, Iganga, Mukono, Kawempe, Nakawa, Kayunga, Buikwe, with…