Outrage at the proposed Public Order Management Bill was mounting yesterday with civil society, the opposition and human rights defenders attacking the government for trying to enact a law to reverse a Constitutional Court ruling and further limit civil...

Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi said on Tuesday his dream of a United States of Africa was still alive and this week’s African Union summit was another step towards that objective. Gaddafi has been pushing for an African unity government for years,...

The visiting top American diplomat for Africa, Ambassador Johnnie Carson, on Thursday asked President Museveni to reconstitute the Electoral Commission to include more representation of all political parties. Sources say Mr Carson, a former US...

Forum for Democratic Change president Kizza Besigye yesterday trounced former army commander Mugisha Muntu in the race to determine the FDC presidential flag bearer for the 2011 general elections. Dr Besigye polled 728 (84.2 per cent) votes against...

Lawmakers controversially passed a crucial Bill in a record seven minutes on the last sitting day of Parliament in 2009, opening the way for political parties to be funded by taxpayers. The NRM will be the biggest beneficiary of the new law that...

Hunched over a sewing machine, Jennipher Alupot is an unlikely poster girl for the women’s rights movement. In fact, the young Ugandan mother is totally unaware of how her story – almost too horrific to be believed – has caused waves across...

With the threat of U.S.-backed sanctions looming over this isolated Red Sea nation, Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki recently summed up his defiant attitude toward the United States, and indeed most things he deems foreign — a free press, certain...

Ugandan security agencies on Friday foiled a bomb plot in the capital Kampala just a week after Somali militants threatened terror attacks on the city. Gerald Olengor, a night watchman who found the bomb at Bhatia Tower located on the main street...

Somalia’s junior minister for defence who was briefly held in Uganda has been released, Uganda’s army spokesman says. Sheikh Yusuf Mohamed Siad, a former Islamist warlord, was detained by Ugandan security forces during a trip to the capital...

At least 58 people were killed when Guinean security forces fired into the crowd at an opposition rally at a football stadium yesterday, according to a human rights organisation in the country. Witnesses said several prominent opposition leaders were...