He was a king at three years old, a symbol of cultural continuity, and a young man robbed of decades he deserved. Now, King Oyo Nyimba Kabamba Iguru Rukidi IV has come home for the last time, his casket received by a nation still struggling to process the loss.
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The courtroom drama surrounding Dr. Kizza Besigye has taken a sharp new turn. Prosecutors have placed before the court a damning set of meeting minutes, pointing to what they describe as a coordinated scheme to remove Uganda’s head of state by force, with foreign mercenaries reportedly at the centre of the plan.
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A dramatic family feud has spilled into Uganda’s corridors of power. Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba, son of President Yoweri Museveni, has publicly declared his brother-in-law’s government-commissioned advisory body ‘illegal’ and threatened mass arrests of its members. This is not a soap opera. This is Kampala.
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She spent months confined to her Nakasero residence, her bank accounts frozen and her political future uncertain. Now, a presidential directive has changed everything for Anita Among, and the ripple effects are only beginning.
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Nineteen of Uganda’s most decorated military minds handed in their uniforms last Friday, but the real briefing came after the formalities. President Yoweri Museveni had financial advice that no war college ever taught them, and it started with goats.
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A single whistleblower letter set off a chain reaction that reached the very top of Uganda’s government. Now the Uganda Registration Services Bureau is under a presidential audit, its senior leadership sidelined, and some very uncomfortable questions are demanding answers.
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Speaking from her home in Kasangati, Winnie Byanyima delivered a sharp and unflinching verdict on her husband’s ongoing legal ordeal: this was never just about Kizza Besigye. It is about what happens to anyone bold enough to challenge Yoweri Museveni. And according to her, the answer has always been the same.
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Uganda spent decades wrestling infectious diseases to the ground, only to find a new enemy quietly taking their place. President Museveni is now speaking openly about the country’s surging cancer and diabetes burden, and he wants answers fast.
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Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has broken his silence on the Stephen Nuwagaba affair, issuing a pointed warning to security agencies while publicly rebuking prominent journalist Andrew Mwenda. The message from State House is unusually direct: torture and abuse of power will not be tolerated, and those who deflect from that truth will be called out by name.
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After a bruising first straw poll, Uganda is not walking away quietly. President Yoweri Museveni sat down with Security Council diplomats at State House Entebbe to personally make the case for veteran diplomat Olara Otunnu, leaning on decades of personal history and a pointed argument about what the world actually needs right now.
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