Tag Archives: FDC

Kampala, Uganda | URN | The Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) has raised fresh concern over the reported deterioration in the health of its founding president, Dr Kizza Besigye, who has been in detention for more than two years. The party is calling for Besigye’s immediate and unconditional release on …

Kampala, Uganda | URN | The Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) has opposed a proposal to develop part of Kampala’s Constitutional Square into an eco-friendly hotel and shopping mall, warning that it will challenge any attempt to alienate the public land in court. In a media briefing on Monday, FDC …

Kampala, Uganda | URN | The Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) has sharply criticised the proposed National Budget for the Financial Year 2026/27, describing it as detached from the realities of ordinary Ugandans and overly skewed towards government and security spending. Speaking during a media briefing at the party headquarters …

Kampala, Uganda | URN | Ibrahim Ssemujju Nganda, the former Kira municipality member of parliament, will dedicate most of his time now to growing his current party, the People’s Front for Freedom-PFF. Ssemujju, the Secretary General of PFF, lost the parliamentary seat he had held for 15 years to National Unity …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | When Yusuf Nsibambi, the outgoing Member of Parliament for Mawokota South, walked into the weekly press conference of the Uganda Law Society’s Radical New Bar, he did not come as a triumphant politician. He came as a reflective one. Recently defeated in the January …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) has broken its silence on the defection of its former Chief Whip in Parliament, Yusuf Nsibambi, to the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM), calling the move both “disappointing and shocking,” but insisting it will not weaken the opposition. …

Kampala, Uganda | JULIUS BUSINGE | Uganda’s political battlefield was jolted Wednesday after Mawokota South legislator Yusuf Nsibambi formally defected from the opposition Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) to the ruling National Resistance Movement, a move analysts say deepens the widening cracks inside the country’s opposition ranks. Nsibambi was officially …

Rukungiri, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Dr. Wallen Nuwagaba Tumwiine, former Rukungiri Municipality FDC flag bearer, says he regrets supporting the opposition, because there is no political direction. In FDC’s 2020 party primaries Nuwagaba beat then incumbent Roland Mugume Kagyinda and Ingrid Turinawe to the 2021 flag. As Kagyinda conceded, …

Katakwi, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  The Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) party has suffered another political setback in Katakwi District following the defection of two key party mobilizers to the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM). The defectors are Joseph Ecuman, the Vice Chairperson of Katakwi District, and Abdullah Latif Okeng, …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) has declared Nathan Nandala Mafabi as the party’s presidential flagbearer for the 2026 presidential general elections. Nathan Nandala Mafabi was declared the party’s presidential flagbearer by FDC Electoral Commission Chairperson Toterebuka Bamwenda at the party headquarters in Najjanankumbi, …