Month: January 2025

The Uganda Police Force has denied claims made by Winnie Kiiza, the former Opposition Leader in Parliament that the army had taken siege of her home in Kasese, describing her claims as lies. On Sunday evening, the Kasese Woman MP took to facebook and asked Ugandans to pray for her

Lawyers for a prominent critic of Rwanda's President Kagame say they believe one of the trial judges is biased because of her involvement in pre-trial detention hearings, and must therefore be removed. The trial, which began today at the High Court in Kigali, has been postponed. Diane Rwigara faces charges

At least 14 civilians were killed on Saturday in a six-hour attack by rebels on the town of Beni in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, local officials told Reuters, warning the unrest may hamper efforts to quash an Ebola epidemic in the area. The latest outbreak of the deadly disease

South Sudan rebel leader Riek Machar turned down an invitation Saturday from President Salva Kiir to visit the South Sudanese capital Juba. Machar, the leader of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement In Opposition (SPLM IO), told Kiir in a meeting in Khartoum that the environment in South Sudan is not

Fellow Ugandans home and abroad, and our comrades in the struggle all over the world, I greet you all and thank you for your standing firm and remaining steadfast in these hard times. As you all know, more than a month ago on 13th August, many things happened which I

China poses the greatest Money Laundering risk to Uganda, a new report has revealed. The National Risk Assessment (NRA) of the Money Laundering (ML) and Terrorism Financing (TF) about Uganda highlights countries that pose a big ML and TF risk as well as countries that are at risk of ML

Former Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) Commander Dominic Ongwen is a proud father of a bouncing new child. The child whose gender has been concealed was conceived during the second leg of a private family visit his wife and children made last year from the custody of the International Criminal Court's