Tag: Uganda

The People’s Front for Freedom has announced that the health of jailed Ugandan opposition figure Kizza Besigye is failing, after he was driven overnight to a medical facility in the ...

President Yoweri Museveni and his political opponents in Uganda held their final rallies today, Tuesday, January 13, 2025, before the election scheduled for January 15, 2026. Museveni, Africa’s third-longest governing ...

Author: Dr. John Osae-Kwapong, Democracy and Development Fellow, CDD-Ghana, and Project Director, the Democracy Project Political parties play an important role in a democracy. In addition to serving as the organizing ...

Uganda’s debt profile has taken a sharp turn, with government figures showing a 26.2% rise in total public debt during the 2024/2025 financial year. The finance ministry’s annual report on ...

Uganda is pursuing a new round of financial assistance from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as its debt burden grows and its previous funding arrangement lapses. The East African nation’s ...

Uganda’s largest opposition party has taken legal action to challenge a controversial new law that restores the power of military tribunals to prosecute civilians, a move critics say undermines justice ...

Appeals judges at the International Criminal Court (ICC) have officially sanctioned the tribunal’s first-ever hearing to proceed without the presence of the accused, paving the way for a landmark in-absentia ...

The Ugandan government intends to introduce a law to allow military tribunals to try civilians for certain offences even after the practice was banned by the Supreme Court. Human rights ...

Ugandan opposition leaders have called for the immediate release of veteran politician Kizza Besigye, whose military trial faces legal scrutiny following a landmark Supreme Court ruling. The ruling, which determined ...

Hundreds of Ugandan civilians, including prominent opposition leader Kizza Besigye, have been tried in military courts despite a Constitutional Court ruling against the practice. The move has triggered widespread criticism ...