Uganda news

Mathias Mpuuga, the leader of the opposition in parliament has called out Ugandans asking why NUP has not done anything about commodity prices. He told them that they also have a duty to rise up and protest. In recent events, a section of Ugandans have been questioning why NUP has not joined the protests against rising commodity prices. Kizza Besigye, ...

Namugongo is home to Uganda’s Catholic and Anglican shrines. On the 3rd of June, Ugandans will celebrate the martyrs who died for their faith. This has always seen pilgrims move long distances to the Uganda Martyr’s Shrine in Namugongo to pay tribute to them. Over the years, the number of pilgrims has only kept in going higher for an unknown ...

Joseph Kabuleta, the principal of the National Economic Empowerment Dialogue (NEED) claimed that government has a group of people looking to turn Ugandans into slaves in about 3 decades from now. These remarks from Kabuleta followed comments from some westerners who dismissed a common narrative that the region is more privileged compared to others. According to Prossy Ayebare from Isingiro, ...

The Forum for Democratic Change party, FDC, has expressed concern over their women activists that Police arrested yesterday. These women were protesting skyrocketing prices of commodities and the long detention of their former party president Dr. Kizza Besigye. The women in question include; Soroti Woman MP Anna Adeke Ebaju, Kampala Deputy Lord Mayor Doreen Nyanjura and Margaret Wokuri, a woman ...

ISINGIRO: Police are holding a 20-year-old Abahe David in its custody for the murder of his younger brother Abasa Joshua aged 13. David is a resident of Omukihangire cell, Bungongi Parish, Nyakitunda cell, Isingiro district. David saw it fit to kill his younger brother Joshua after the latter demanded the former for his shs5,000. Apparently, the lending of the money ...