Once upon a time, the East African Community (EAC), a six-member regional bloc of Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda and South Sudan – admitted in 2016 – was both vibrant and buoyant. Not just to keen observers, but anyone could tell it had a sen…

Mr Robert Kyagulanyi, aka Bobi Wine, has filed additional evidence in the Supreme Court to bolster his election petition challenging President Museveni’s victory.In the new evidence filed before court at the weekend, the National Unity Platform (NUP) p…

President Museveni and half of his 28-member Cabinet have remained active on social media despite the government’s official ban on the micro-blogging sites.Only 10 of them had neither tweeted nor posted anything on Facebook by 4pm yesterday, 27 days af…

President Museveni has intervened in the Entebbe Municipality election dispute which triggered public protests yesterday resulting in death of one person who was shot dead by a soldier of the Special Forces Command (SFC), a presidential guard unit.Secu…

Uganda has five more scheduled elections in the 2021 roadmap.The country has gone through a series of voting since the beginning of January, with some positions witnessing lower voter turnout after the parliamentary and presidential elections on Januar…

The Namutumba District National Residence Movement (NRM) chairperson, Mr Siraji Gusongweire, has stepped down from seeking the Ivukula Town Council leadership, citing a surge in popularity of the National Unity Platform (NUP).Local Council 3 elections …

NRM candidate Richard Muhumuza was declared winner of Fort Portal Tourism City Central Division mayorship with 6,990 votes.He was followed by Mr Joram Bitamanya (FDC), who polled 3,869 votes, Mr Herbert Mugisa (Ind), coming in the third place with 2,19…

Government has pushed the date on which it had expected to receive the second Airbus from France.The postponement, according to Mr Waisswa Bageya, the Ministry of Works permanent secretary, was occasioned by “communication technicalities” that had resu…

Nationwide — Unlike last week’s presidential and parliamentary seats elections, Wednesday elections to choose district leaders, a low voter turnout has been registered across the country.Some voters, polling agents as well as candidates attribute the l…

Foreign affairs minister Sam Kutesa Wednesday urged all stakeholders in last week’s presidential and parliamentary elections to move on following results announced by the Electoral Commission which showed President Museveni had won with almost 59 perce…

At least 28 of the 499 MPs elected on January 14 have served for 15 or more years in Parliament, making them the longest serving legislators since President Museveni captured power in 1986.Elected last Thursday were 353 directly elected MPs and 146 dis…

When President Museveni is sworn in on May 12, he will take the first step towards joining the club of longest serving African leaders who have led their countries for 40 years and are still in the bidding.His re-election last Thursday will take Mr Mus…

As vote-counting for the 2021 General Elections is still ongoing at the National Tally Centre in Kyambogo, Mr Robert Kyagulanyi, alias Bobi Wine, the National Unity Platform (NUP) presidential candidate has claimed that the government blocked his phone…