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Yoweri Museveni declared winner of Uganda’s presidential poll
By Reuters,
1717, January 16, 2021 (EAT)
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni won a decisive re-election victory on Saturday, elections officials said, but his main rival Bobi Wine alleged wides...
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Giants fall as vote counting continues in Uganda
By Edwin Obuya,
1756, January 15, 2021 (EAT)
Uganda's Vice President Edward Kiwanuka Ssekandi is among 10 senior government officials who have fallen by the wayside in the just concluded Uganda e...
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Uganda’s President Museveni has early lead in election, preliminary results show
By Reuters,
1202, January 15, 2021 (EAT)
Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni took an early lead in the presidential election race, according to preliminary results released on Friday morning...
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How the U.S. helped Museveni stay in power for over 3 decades
By CNN,
133, January 14, 2021 (EAT)
Ugandans go to the polls on January 14, with Bobi Wine and nine other candidates challenging incumbent President Yoweri Museveni, who has been in powe...
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Bobi Wine rubbishes claim that he is ‘planning to kidnap himself’
By Edwin Obuya,
1047, January 13, 2021 (EAT)
Uganda's main presidential challenger Robert Kyangulani alias Bobi Wine has dismissed claims that he is 'planning to kidnap himself' after elections. ...
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Presidential candidate Nancy Kalembe takes on Museveni
By VOA,
1017, January 12, 2021 (EAT)
There are eleven candidates running for president in Uganda's January election but just one — Nancy Kalembe — is a woman. Kalembe said Uganda n...
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Uganda’s Bobi Wine says his bodyguard was ‘deliberately’ run over and killed
By CNN,
819, December 28, 2020 (EAT)
Ugandan presidential opposition candidate Bobi Wine said one of his bodyguards was run over and killed Sunday by a military police truck, while taking...
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Bobi Wine calls on U.S. to hold Uganda accountable on human rights, says he was nearly killed twice
By CNN,
909, December 9, 2020 (EAT)
Ugandan music star turned presidential candidate Bobi Wine says he was nearly killed twice in recent weeks and called on the international community t...
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Three dead, 34 injured in protests against arrest of Uganda’s Bobi Wine
By Reuters,
1038, November 19, 2020 (EAT)
Three people died and at least 34 were injured, including with gun shot wounds, in protests that erupted after police arrested Ugandan presidential ca...
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Museveni says Kenyans are lucky to have leaders like Moi
By Philip Mwaniki,
906, February 12, 2020 (EAT)
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has described the late former President Daniel arap Moi as a patriotic leader who knew how to deal with problems fac...
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Ugandan activist gets nine more months in jail for a poem about a vagina
By CNN,
1131, August 3, 2019 (EAT)
A Ugandan feminist and activist reacted with fury and defiance after being sentenced to nine more months in prison for publishing a metaphorical poem ...
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Ugandan Govt to demand birth certificate for cows
By Benjamin Muriuki,
1026, July 18, 2019 (EAT)
Imagine the government demanding that you obtain a birth certificate for your cow. Well, that would sound comic or rather a far-fetched idea, but it ...
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Ugandan singer Bobi Wine plans to run for president in 2021
By VOA,
1014, July 17, 2019 (EAT)
Ugandan pop star and opposition figure Bobi Wine said Monday he will challenge longtime President Yoweri Museveni in a 2021 election ``on behalf of th...
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She wrote a poem about a vagina. It landed her in jail
By CNN,
1124, July 8, 2019 (EAT)
How do women get men who are standing in the way of gender equality to listen to them? Grab them by their genitalia. That's the radical suggestion ...
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Uganda Supreme Court upholds lifetime term for Museveni
By VOA,
1022, April 20, 2019 (EAT)
President Yoweri Museveni has been given a green light to contest Uganda's presidency in 2021, even after the age of 75. Uganda's Supreme Court Thu...
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Presidents Kenyatta, Museveni reaffirm Kenya-Uganda trade ties
By Allan Irungu,
2003, March 27, 2019 (EAT)
President Uhuru Kenyatta has reaffirmed Kenya's position in ensuring that trade relations between Kenya and Uganda remain firm and that the two countr...
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Uganda’s ruling party clears 74-year-old Museveni to vie for another term
By VOA,
1519, March 18, 2019 (EAT)
Members of Parliament from Uganda's ruling party are backing President Yoweri Museveni's attempt to win another term, according to a resolution adopte...
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Rwanda Accuses Uganda of Supporting Rebels
By VOA,
1048, March 6, 2019 (EAT)
Rwanda on Tuesday accused Uganda of supporting rebel groups opposed to President Paul Kagame's government, amid a resurgence of hostility between the ...
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Uganda to use curvaceous women to promote tourism
By Ian Omondi,
1739, February 6, 2019 (EAT)
The Ugandan government on Wednesday launched a competition that seeks to promote the country's culture and tourism potential to the rest of the world ...
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Abiy Ahmed: Ethiopian PM who captured Africa’s imagination
By CNN,
1039, January 1, 2019 (EAT)
One African leader's 2018 story has gripped the continent's imagination because of the heady pace of change his appointment has engineered. Abiy Ah...
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