Tag: Uganda
Uganda court grants bail to 18 supporters of opposition leader Wine
A Ugandan military court on Monday released on bail 18 supporters of singer-turned-opposition leader Bobi Wine detained since the start of the year on...
Gun attack on Ugandan ex-army chief kills daughter, driver -military
Gunmen opened fire at a car carrying a Ugandan government minister in an attempted assassination on Tuesday, wounding the former army commander and killing...
Uganda army to join Congo in offensive against Islamist rebels –...
The Ugandan and Congo armies are setting up an operations centre in the east of Democratic Republic of Congo for a joint offensive against...
ISS: Will Total confront another Islamic State-linked insurgency in Uganda?
After retreating from ISIS-Mozambique, the French company is tapping oil in Uganda, in the backyard of ISIS-DRC.
On 24 March, Islamist insurgents attacked the northern...
Child soldier turned LRA commander testifies at ICC
A former Ugandan child soldier who became a top commander in the rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) old judges at the International Criminal Court...
Uganda says it has signed security agreement with Egypt amid tensions...
Uganda and Egypt have signed a military intelligence sharing agreement, the east African country said late on Wednesday, against a backdrop of rising tensions...
Four detained in Uganda for killing and dismembering lions
Ugandan wildlife officials have detained four men suspected of killing and dismembering lions in one of the East African country’s largest national parks, they...
Uganda says it detains American over subversive activities
Uganda said late on Monday it had detained an American national for involvement in subversive activities amid a deadly crackdown against opponents of longtime...
Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine briefly detained while leading protests
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Uganda’s opposition leader Bobi Wine was briefly detained on Monday as he led an anti-government demonstration in the capital, his latest effort to reject...
U.S. blacklists groups in Congo, Mozambique over Islamic State links
The United States on Wednesday blacklisted two Islamist extremist groups in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Mozambique as foreign terrorist organizations over accusations...
US says weighing options to hold accountable Ugandan security forces over...
The United States is looking at “a range of targeted options” to hold accountable Ugandan security forces who it deemed responsible for abuses against...
Uganda’s Wine withdraws election result challenge, alleges bias
Opposition leader Bobi Wine said on Monday he was dropping a legal challenge to Uganda’s presidential election results that handed victory to incumbent Yoweri...
Uganda military sentences soldiers up to three months in jail over...
The Ugandan military on Thursday sentenced seven soldiers to up 90 days in jail after they were convicted of assaulting journalists who were covering...
Uganda security personnel beat journalists covering rights abuse petition
Ugandan military and police officers beat and seriously injured journalists on Wednesday as they covered the delivery of a petition about human rights violations...
Ugandan military loses another helicopter
The Uganda People’s Defence Force (UPDF) has lost an AB 206 helicopter in a crash that killed one of the pilots.
The aircraft (serial AF-317,...
‘You chop her’: Ugandan recalls brutal upbringing as LRA child soldier
Louis Lakor was seven years old when Uganda’s Lord’s Resistance Army killed his family and kidnapped him to use as a child soldier. On...
Ugandan rebel commander Ongwen convicted for sex crimes, forced pregnancy
Former Ugandan rebel commander Dominic Ongwen was convicted on Thursday of widespread sexual crimes, including rape and forced marriage, in a ruling at the...
Ugandan opposition say 3 000 of their supporters seized since November
Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine and his party said on Tuesday that around 3 000 of his supporters had been detained or abducted by...
Uganda opposition leader Bobi Wine challenges election result in court
Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine filed a supreme court challenge on Monday seeking cancellation of the results of a presidential election that handed victory...
‘Everywhere I am in chains,’ says Uganda’s Wine after home arrest...
Uganda’s opposition leader Bobi Wine accused security forces on Tuesday of humiliating him, his family and staff as he was freed from house arrest...
Ugandan court lifts opposition leader Bobi Wine’s house arrest
A Ugandan court has ordered security forces to cease surrounding the home of opposition leader Bobi Wine, whose house arrest since a mid-month presidential...
ISS: Uganda’s illegal wildlife traders undeterred by COVID-19 restrictions
Asia’s massive appetite for Africa’s wildlife has sustained a profitable international smuggling business, despite lockdowns.
Measures to help curb the spread of COVID-19 in Uganda...
Ugandan opposition says troops raid its offices amid election challenge
Bobi Wine, leader of Uganda’s main opposition party, said troops raided its headquarters on Monday as staff tried to prepare a legal challenge to...
Uganda accuses US envoy of subversion for trying to visit candidate
Uganda accused the US ambassador on Tuesday of seeking to subvert last week’s presidential election by trying to visit the main opposition candidate at...
Ugandan opposition party says it will challenge election result; two dead...
Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine’s party said on Sunday that it was preparing to challenge President Yoweri Museveni’s election win and condemned what it...
Uganda’s Museveni wins sixth term, rival alleges fraud
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has scored a decisive election victory to win a sixth term, the country’s election commission said on Saturday, but his...
ISS: Uganda’s social media battleground is not just an African trend
Elections are a reminder that free speech must be weighed up against information warfare when considering restrictions.
In the earlier days of Ugandan Yoweri Museveni’s...
Uganda’s Museveni takes early election lead as rival alleges fraud
Long-time leader Yoweri Museveni took an early lead in Uganda’s presidential election according to preliminary results on Friday, though his main rival said there...
Ugandans choose between long-time leader and popstar politician
Ugandans wearing face masks to brave the pandemic voted on Thursday as police and soldiers patrolled the streets of the capital during a presidential...
Ugandans lose voice, digital rights in pre-poll blackout
Uganda’s ban on social media days before presidential elections shows a rattled president flexing power over the Internet at the expense of free speech...
US cancels its observation of Uganda’s presidential election
The United States has cancelled its observation of Uganda’s presidential election because most of its accreditation requests were denied and said Thursday’s vote would...
Uganda revealed as Hizir APC customer
Uganda is the previously undisclosed customer for Hizir armoured personnel carriers (APCs) from Turkey’s Katmerciler, which shipped the vehicles last year.
Around a dozen of...
Uganda orders all social media to be blocked – letter
Uganda ordered internet service providers to block all social media platforms and messaging apps on Tuesday until further notice, a letter from the country’s...
Ugandan opposition candidate Bobi Wine says soldiers raided his home
Ugandan opposition presidential candidate Bobi Wine said soldiers raided his home on Tuesday and arrested his guards, two days before an election pitting the...
Facebook takes down Ugandan pro-Museveni accounts ahead of election
Facebook has taken down a network in Uganda linked to the country’s ministry of information for using fake and duplicate accounts to post ahead...
Ugandan presidential election pits Museveni against popular singer
Ugandans vote on Thursday in a presidential election pitting long-time leader Yoweri Museveni against ten candidates including opposition frontrunner Bobi Wine, a singer-turned-lawmaker whose...
Uganda’s police chief: beating of reporters for their own good
Uganda has space in its prisons to cope with any spike in arrests during next week’s presidential election and the police beat reporters for...
Uganda’s Bobi Wine asks ICC to investigate rights abuses
Uganda’s main opposition leader asked the obi on Thursday to investigate President Yoweri Museveni and senior officials for sanctioning human rights abuses in the...
Anti-gay rhetoric ramps up fear among LGBT+ Ugandans ahead of polls
Homophobic comments by Uganda’s president and other politicians are making some LGBT+ Ugandans too scared to vote in elections scheduled for 14 January, gay...
Ugandan presidential challenger Bobi Wine campaigns in a flak jacket
Uganda’s main opposition candidate in next week’s presidential election has swapped his trademark red beret for a helmet and starts each day with shadow-boxing...
The main candidates in Uganda’s presidential election
Ugandans vote on 14 January in a presidential election that pits Yoweri Museveni, Africa’s fourth-longest ruling head of state, against ten other candidates, including...
Reintegrating former extremists
Uganda offers lessons on how to rehabilitate former enemy fighters, including those kidnapped as children.
If any country should know about the disarmament, demobilization and...
UN rights experts urge Uganda to halt pre-election violence, arrests
United Nations human rights experts called on Uganda on Tuesday to rein in violent security forces and drop charges against political opponents and activists...
ISS: Is Bobi Wine singing Museveni’s swansong?
Uganda’s president is growing desperate as a young singer jeopardises his long grip on power.
When he took office in 1986, President Yoweri Museveni said...
Uganda’s Bobi Wine released on bail as protest death toll rises...
Ugandan pop star and presidential candidate Bobi Wine, whose arrest this week triggered protests that led to at least 37 deaths, was released on...
At least 37 killed in Uganda protests after presidential candidate Wine’s...
At least 37 people have died and hundreds have been detained in unrest in Uganda triggered by the arrest of presidential candidate and pop...
Three dead and 34 injured in protests against arrest of Uganda’s...
Three people died and at least 34 were injured, including with gun shot wounds, in protests that erupted after police arrested Ugandan presidential candidate...
Uganda opposition presidential candidate Bobi Wine arrested, police disperse supporters
Ugandan police used rubber bullets, live rounds and tear gas to break up a protest by supporters of opposition presidential candidate Bobi Wine after...
Ugandan presidential hopeful’s office raided
Ugandan pop star and presidential hopeful Bobi Wine said security forces raided his office and confiscated documents, branding items and cash amid what the...
Sudan and main rebel groups formalise peace deal
Sudan’s power-sharing government and several rebel groups on Saturday formalised a peace agreement aimed at resolving decades of conflict which left millions displaced and...