Category Politics

Masaka mp poll heads to high court after winner ignores petition notice The fight over who really won the Masaka City Woman Member of Parliament seat has moved to the High Court after the declared victor refused to accept formal…

Opposition figure Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, better known as Bobi Wine, has confirmed he slipped out of Uganda after nearly two months spent in hiding. The National Unity Platform leader made the announcement on Saturday in a direct message to Ugandans…

You know how it goes after every election. The big opposition name disappears from the streets and everyone starts whispering that the struggle is over. This time NUP deputy president John Baptist Nambeshe is stepping up to shut that talk…

Iran’s new supreme leader finally speaks, or at least that is what they are calling it, and the message is pure defiance. You would think the guy who just stepped in as Iran’s top man after his father was killed…

Hundreds of US troops who used to be based at Camp Lemonnier in Djibouti, America’s only permanent military post in Africa, have quietly been moved to Uganda. They are currently staying in temporary facilities and better quarters right at Entebbe…

President Museveni held a closed-door meeting with NRM bigwigs and business people from Greater Masaka on March 11 to get the real story behind the contested Masaka City Woman MP seat. Justine Nameere was declared winner after a recount flipped…

You know those big treason trials where everything feels a bit cloak and dagger? Well, here we are again with Dr Kizza Besigye and two others facing charges. The Director of Public Prosecutions has just asked the High Court to…

Bobi Wine has called out the arrest of counter-terrorism officers who were assigned to protect him during the 2026 campaigns. The guys are reportedly being held at Railway Police Station on charges of disobeying orders and walking off the job.…

Western Uganda is buzzing over this one. Fortunate Kyarikunda, a law enforcement officer in Rubanda, got hauled off to civil prison because she wouldn’t pay back more than Shs14 million to her former partner Richard Tumwiine. He sponsored her entire…

He inherited power in the middle of a war, with bombs still falling, and nobody has seen his face since. That is the strange beginning of Mojtaba Khamenei’s reign as the third Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran.…