NEWS ANALYSIS

Anita Among’s Political Rise Faces Its Toughest Test NEWS ANALYSIS | URN | Anita Annet Among’s reported withdrawal from the race for Speaker of Uganda’s 12th Parliament has triggered renewed debate about the trajectory of one of the country’s most influential political figures. The withdrawal, announced via her official X …

  The corporation expanded from 258 to 287 towns in five years, with connections rising from 724,000 to over one million NEWS ANALYSIS | JULIUS BUSINGE | Uganda’s National Water and Sewerage Corporation (NWSC) is accelerating one of the most ambitious public utility transformation programmes in sub-Saharan Africa, combining large-scale …

  Kampala, Uganda | PATRICIA AKANKWATSA | Uganda’s first commercial export of canned pineapple to China is being presented as more than a ceremonial trade breakthrough. Government officials, investors, and development agencies say the shipment reflects a wider attempt to reposition Uganda from an exporter of raw agricultural commodities to …

NEWS ANALYSIS |  MAURICE ONIANG’O – GIJN |  It all started in January of this year, just days before Uganda’s national elections. That’s when the Kampala-based African Centre for Media Excellence (ACME), a GIJN member, was among several civil society and human rights organizations that received a letter from the country’s National Bureau …

NEWS ANALYSIS | Xinhua |  In recent years, China-U.S. relations have experienced twists and turns. Some observers fear that China and the United States may repeat the historical pattern of major-power rivalry known as the “Thucydides Trap.” Yet, Chinese President Xi Jinping has rejected this notion: “There is no such …

  Uganda, Kenya and Rwanda have transparency laws, but corruption persists   NEWS ANALYSIS | PATRICIA AKANKWATSA | Uganda records some of the lowest levels of compliance with access to information requests in East Africa, highlighting a persistent gap between transparency laws and their enforcement across the region. Between 2018 …

  What happens when mobile money fails, hospitals lose data, and the invisible infrastructure behind modern life suddenly stops working?   NEWS ANALYSIS | RONALD MUSOKE | What if, tomorrow morning in Kampala, your mobile phone stopped working – not because the battery died, not because you forgot to buy data, …

  Uganda’s digital public sphere and the 2026 election   SPECIAL REPORT | RONALD MUSOKE | As President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, 81, was sworn in on May 12 for a seventh straight term in office, Uganda marked another formal milestone in a presidency that has now spanned nearly four decades. …

COMMENT | ANDREW PI BESI | Reader, on May 12th at the Kololo Ceremonial Grounds, President Yoweri Museveni will take his seventh oath of office. As I have previously noted, under his reign, Uganda’s economy has expanded, and, indeed, today Uganda is wealthier than at any time in its 64 years …

The democrat was considered the architect of the Southern African country’s economic rise and a pioneer in the fight against AIDS   Gaborone, Botswana | AGENCIES | The political career of Botswana’s ex-President Festus Gontebanye Mogae can be summarized under one heading: “good governance.” During his time in office from 1998 …