By Godfred Zina When Ugandans cast their ballots on January 15, 2026, they will confront a defining choice: entrench a system that has governed for four...
By Godfred Zina Across Africa, a troubling pattern is emerging – one that threatens the hard-won gains of democratic governance over the past three decades. In...
By Godfred Zina As Gabon takes significant steps toward returning to democratic rule and ending the Bongo dynasty with its proposed election on April 15, other...
Bloomberg | Uganda is seeking approval from lawmakers to raise 1.1 trillion shillings (US$289 million) of additional budgetary funds in part to help a local drug...
Uganda is poised to inaugurate its inaugural tin refining facility in the southwest region, marking a significant stride in bolstering capacity and advancing mineral value within...
By Gregory Simpkins The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) June Global Trends reported that by the end of 2021, the number of people displaced...
"Chinese investments in Africa are “going on very well. The next thing I would ask from them is to allow our products to enter their market...
With less than a year to go to the end of his term, Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta is worrying about the legacy he will leave behind...
Rebellious young people aren't a threat - they're the key to democratic reform
Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni on Friday called on African nations to withdraw from the Rome Statute that established the International Criminal Court (ICC), amid accusations that...
When Ebola hit Uganda two years ago, the country’s president quickly went on national TV and urged Ugandans to avoid touching each other. Health officials speedily...
The former leader of Uganda’s main opposition party, Forum for Democratic Change (FDC), said any political survey done in Uganda should be viewed with some suspicion because...
Uganda’s economic growth should accelerate to just above 6 per cent in the next fiscal year through June 2015. This was despite the risk of reduced...
Uganda’s ruling NRM has nominated President Yoweri Museveni to stand for re-election in two years-time. Museveni has been in power since 1986 and if he wins...
Oil rig in Uganda. PHOTO/Tullow Oil (Bloomberg) – Uganda is looking for a lead investor to develop a refinery estimated to cost US$2.5 billion, two weeks...
Traders on the floor of the Nigerian Stock exchange. PHOTO/File Global investors are being enticed by bountiful opportunities to do business in Africa, as the continent...
A worker at the Petroleum Refinery plant in Mombasa, Kenya. PHOTO/Daily Nation Kenya is headed to become the first oil exporter in East Africa, moving in...
(Reuters) – Uganda has agreed to a plan to build a pipeline from its oilfields to a new port being developed on Kenya’s northern coast, Uganda’s...
While the U.S. Federal Reserve prints the greenback with what some may refer to as feverish abandon; and much as this may, in negative extremity, lead...
By Christmas Eve of 2012, it was apparent that on top of a general paucity that comes with being one of the world’s poorest countries, Ugandans...
(Reuters)- China’s Gingko Energy Company plans to invest US$100 million over a five-year period to revive production at Kilembe copper mine in western Uganda, the east...
Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni. PHOTO/File Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni will step down in 2016 if his ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) party asks him to. Museveni...
(Reuters) – Ugandan police fired tear gas before bundling opposition leader Kizza Besigye and several allies into police vans on Thursday, witnesses said, shortly before planned...
Uganda President Yoweri Museveni has indicated to parliament he is not likely to delay approval of Tullow Oil‘s long proposed partnership with Total and the China...
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni said Sunday that U.S. military “personnel” being sent to Uganda to help fight the rebel group the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) will...
The former vice-president of Uganda, Dr. Gilbert Bukenya (pictured), has been remanded in prison after an anti-corruption court ruled that he was involved in fraudulent practice...
Ugandan police say they have arrested a man who wrote a book criticizing the longtime president and the ruling party. Police spokeswoman Judith Nabakooba said Tuesday...
