Uganda politics

In a recent statement, Bobi Wine, a prominent Ugandan opposition leader, has called on President-elect Joe Biden and the European Union to stop providing financial aid to Uganda. Bobi Wine argues that such support should be withheld as a means of condemning the alleged human rights abuses and lack of democratic processes under President Yoweri Museveni’s government. Bobi Wine, an ...

The Electoral Commission yesterday wound up the nomination of candidates for Local Government Councils by-election in Hoima. The exercise started on Wednesday, 30 August, 2023, at Kitoba SubxCounty headquarters in Hoima. The District Returning Officer, Ms Megan Kasande presided Ofer the nomination exercise. In total, 5 candidates were nominated to vie for the position of chairperson Hoima District. The candidates ...

The Forum for Democratic Change ( FDC ) is facing a crisis that has deepened even further. This is after the National Chairman Wasswa Birigwa refused to meet with the party president, Patrick Amuriat. The meeting had been aimed at harmonizing the forthcoming parallel meetings. Last week, Amuriat indicated that he would meet the national party chairman yesterday. During the ...

Failed politician and media personality Muyanga Lutaaya has revealed that NUP president Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu aka Bobi Wine’s huge crowds on his current ongoing national tour are meaningless. The 2021 presidential runner-up kicked off his statewide awareness tour in Western Ugandan city, Mbarara. So far he has traversed Mbarara, Fort Portal and Kabale completing his western tour yesterday. And the ...

According to Maj. Gen. (rtd) Mugisha Muntu, only his formulae can transform this country. Others (politicians) can only capture power and keep on behaving like the NRM. “I don’t understand Ugandans because they have been blindfolded to think that one of the top politicians will come and save them from the misery they are undergoing,” Muntu says. The Alliance for ...