2016 Is About Our Future, Not Museveni
According to official figures, only seven per cent of rural Ugandans have access to electricity. The latest population census put the number of Ugandans living in rural areas at 29 million. It is only six million that live in urban areas. And of these six million, only 40 percent have access to electricity. By simple […]
Uganda Opposition Demands For Independent Electoral Commission
Uganda’s largest opposition party has threatened to prevent presidential elections from being held early next year, if the government rejects its demand for an independent electoral commission. Francis Mwijukye, deputy spokesman for Forum for Democratic Change (FDC), said on Tuesday that the party wanted the commission to compile a new and accurate voter register before […]
Africa: The Growing Appeal of Popular Uprisings
Lagos, Nigeria — It’s been a month since protesters in Burundi began their campaign to block President Pierre Nkurunziza from seeking a third term in office. A May 13 coup against the 51-year-old former sports professor failed, but demonstrators are rolling out on a daily basis, calling for him to step down. The tiny Great […]
Catholic church plans to ban pulpit politics
With the 2016 elections months away, the Catholic Church is contemplating a ban on politicians using its pulpits to campaign. According to the roadmap released recently by the Electoral Commission, candidates will have between October 12, 2015 and February 15, 2016 to campaign ahead of the elections. During the campaign period, politicians tend to uses […]
Agonised Ugandan grandmother: American ‘bought’ my grandchild
Kampala – The first time Jaja, a Ugandan woman, saw her one-year-old granddaughter, she was in the arms of an American man who she was told had “bought” the child. The toddler was sitting with the man and his wife, eating biscuits and drinking juice, as they sought legal guardianship over her in Uganda’s High […]
Ugandan Women Strip to Save Their Land
A group of elderly women in a village in northern Uganda did something culturally taboo to express their anger – they began to strip. In front of two government ministers, soldiers, policemen and hundreds of people from their community, they started removing their clothes. Off came their tops – then some of the women pulled […]
South Africa Denies Troops Stranded in Uganda
Cape Town — South African National Defence Force (SANDF) yesterday refuted claims that about 850 South African soldiers were stranded in Uganda. “We do have South African troops in Uganda that are due for rotation and to return into the country but those are not stranded,” said SANDF spokesperson Brigadier General Xolani Mabanga. The troops […]
Ugandan Women Ought to Take Lead in Politics
In the late 1990s, the United Nations defined its third Millennium Development Goal as the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women. As the UN set a number of specific and quantifiable objectives to meet such goals by the end of the past decade, observers have noted that in terms of political participation […]
Oil Compensation Exposes Abuse of Women in Hoima
The undertaking of oil exploration typically has profound social, cultural and political impacts – both negative and positive, both in the country at large and in the region of operation. Oil exploration can have a positive effect on development by creating jobs, catalysing businesses and providing vital infrastructure such as roads, electricity, schools and even […]
Anita Fabiola’s inappropriate pictures leaked
Nude photo leaks are now becoming a common thing with African celebrities, with Anita Fabiola being a recent victim NTV be my date present Anita Fabiola has allegedly been fired from the station for disgracing the brand after her inappropriate pictures leaked to the media. Fabiola who claims she was not fired but rather resigned […]
