The Independent Uganda: You get the Truth we Pay the Price

Football news across West Africa ran hot after AFCON 2025 ended in January 2026. Conversations jumped from one squad list to the next, and fans checked updates on phones between commutes and late kickoffs. Many supporters keep one tab for stats and fixtures, then open https://1xbet.gm/en/user/login when a big match …

This development comes at the time traditional media outlets worldwide are  struggling with  declines in core revenue streams, particularly print and broadcast advertising  as audiencees goes online   NEWS ANALYSIS | JULIUS BUSINGE | The Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) is poised to exit East Africa’s traditional media industry after …

AFCON 2025 took place in Morocco in late 2025 and ran into January 2026, and league matches still show the after-effects. Several players returned to club duty with tired legs and minor knocks. Local coaches changed lineups through February, since the same starters could not handle every match. Some supporters …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | At least 43 Ugandans have been arrested in the past seven months for attempting to apply for visas to the United States of America using forged documents. Addressing journalists at the Uganda Media Centre in Kampala, James Bloomer, the Regional Security Officer at the United …

SPECIAL REPORT | THE INDEPENDENT | Women remain vastly underrepresented in political leadership worldwide, according to the latest “Women in Politics: 2026” map, prepared by the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) and UN Women. The findings reveal that men continue to dominate executive positions and parliamentary seats, with women far from achieving …

Could China and America be destined for peace, not war? COMMENT | NNANDA KIZITO SSERUWAGI | How about this: rather than being destined for war, America and China were actually destined for peace? Could America’s treating of China as an enemy risk turning it into one? And could the opposite also …

Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Former Uganda People’s Congress (UPC) Party president Olara Otunnu has described his rare public photo moment with President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni in Gulu City as a surprise, saying the moment was not planned. The two leaders briefly met and posed for photographs on Saturday …

COMMENT | OBED K KATUREEBE | The increasingly speculative UN Commission on Human Rights has once again issued a report about Uganda’s involvement in the South Sudan conflict. The report makes serious allegations against the Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF), which are currently working to prevent what could become one of …

  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Owing to the growing creative economy and the increasing value of intellectual property, the Center for Law, Policy, and Innovation Initiative (CeLPII), in partnership with the Africa Creatives Alliance (ACA), will host a high-level dialogue on intellectual property-backed lending on March 19 at Motiv, …

COMMENT | ALLAN OMURON | Uganda’s boda-boda sector operates under relentless pressure, tight margins, long working hours, unforgiving roads that push the riders and machines to their limits. Conversations about boda safety often focus on rider behaviour – speeding, helmet use, licensing, or traffic discipline – leaving out one equally …