Tag: Uganda

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 ...

The 9th edition of the Uganda International Oil and Gas Summit (UIOGS) has concluded with a resounding call for sustainable economic transformation driven by Uganda’s emerging oil and gas sector. ...

Prominent Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye has reportedly been kidnapped in Kenya and taken to a military jail in Uganda, according to his wife, Winnie Byanyima, the executive director of ...

Two Ugandan TikTok content creators are facing charges of insulting President Yoweri Museveni, First Lady Janet Museveni, and their son, Gen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba.  The court ordered 21-year-old David Ssengozi, known ...