Voting kicks off in Uganda with interest riveted on President Museveni, fears of massive rigging in towns swirl
The East African country of roughly 52 million people has 21.6 million registered voters. Polls are expected to close at 4pm on Thursday, according to the electoral commission. Results are constitutionally required to be announced in 48 hours.
Empowering indigenous people: Demilitarising environmental conservation in Uganda
By implementing these reforms, Uganda can shift towards a more inclusive and sustainable approach to environmental leadership, prioritizing community rights and ecological conservation.
In Museveni’s 40 year presidency, Uganda transformed from a promising democracy to present theatre of servitude and sycophancy
January 15, Ugandans’ date with destiny. They will chose (or be forced to retain) President Museveni or dump him for Bobi Wine (Kyagulanyi Ssentamu). In Ugandan context, though, it is said, “history teaches us that we don’t learn from history.” Museveni is the still point of a turning wheel.
Museveni’s fierce critic Sara Bireete detained ahead of January 15 presidential election
Police in Uganda said they have detained a prominent human rights activist as long-serving President Yoweri Museveni’s government widens its crackdown on dissent and political opposition ahead of the January 15 general election. The detention of Sarah Bireete, head of a rights organisation and a frequent anti-government commentator on local...
Museveni times seven: How normalisation of violence became hard currency for winning Uganda’s omnipresent leader 7th term
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni is seeking his seventh term in office in the January 15 presidential election that kicks off Africa’s 2026 election calendar. He and his National Resistance Movement (NRM) party are running on the campaign theme of “Protecting the Gains: Making a Qualitative Leap into High Middle-Income Status.”
Flushing out scientists, on-boarding army: How Museveni ‘drafted’ Uganda’s fisheries, agriculture and livestock industries into wretched military
Creation of Operation Wealth Creation (OWC) is a prime example of the militarisation of conservation and the de-institutionalisation of MAAF.
How sycophancy became stock-in-trade in Ugandan politics and nixed on democracy
One common characteristic of flatterers is that they are very good at lying. They position themselves as angels before the eyes of their victims – the flattered. Normally, they have no ideas because they carry thick heads that cannot think or reason critically.
How Uganda’s long history of political defections undermined ideological pluralism and democracy, went a tad higher under Museveni
There have been many prominent shifts during NRM rule. The most memorable are probably those of Anne Anita Among and Thomas Tayebwa, who were former members of the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) that crossed to the National Resistance Movement (NRM) and rose to become Speaker and Deputy Speaker of Parliament, respectively
Wrinkles of Struggle: How Uganda’s perennial president has spent 20 years persecuting never-say-die ally-turned-foe Kizza Besigye
Kizza Besigye’s path was once intertwined with Yoweri Tibuhaburwa Museveni’s after joining the National Resistance Army (NRA) in the 1980s, ostensibly to fight against dictatorship. But disillusionment soon followed.
Gun legacy: How President Museveni thrives on political violence that’s turned Uganda into huge assassination theatre
The normalisation of violence erodes trust in institutions, inviting international scrutiny while emboldening repression.
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