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    Kampala, Uganda |  Xinhua | Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has endorsed a proposal to introduce a single East African entry visa for the 2027 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON), which Uganda will co-host with Kenya and Tanzania. Museveni, according to a State House statement issued on Thursday, directed …

    DUNGA BEACH, Kenya | DAVIS J WEDDI – SciDev.Net |  For years, fish farmers at Dunga Beach, along Kenya’s stretch of Lake Victoria, lived with a dread that never really left them. They could end one day looking out at cages packed with healthy tilapia and begin the next …

  How PLU is swallowing NRM   Kampala, Uganda | IAN KATUSIIME | Is the Patriotic League of Uganda (PLU) an opposition outfit? Is it a faction within the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM), or does it operate as an independent political entity? Those are the questions dominating political discourse …

    New American sanctions target the commercial networks that turn Congo’s conflict minerals into global business   NEWS ANALYSIS |  RONALD MUSOKE | For years, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo’s wars have been fought with rifles, rockets and militias. Increasingly, however, Washington believes the conflict is being sustained somewhere else …

  Kenyan constitutional lawyer and veteran politician Martha Karua embraced the brief to defend Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye after his abduction from Nairobi in November 2024. Nearly two years later, she finds herself barred from entering Uganda, in a legal and political saga that is testing the boundaries of justice, …

  NMG Staff Stranded As Security Forces Seal Offices, Shut Down Stations   Kampala, Uganda | URN | Employees of Nation Media Group (NMG) Uganda woke up to restricted access and disrupted operations on Sunday morning after security forces moved into the media company’s offices in Kampala, leading to the …

Kampala, Uganda | URN | Starting next month, Ugandans will wake up to new tax adjustments and tax administration measures, including the Income Tax (Amendment) Act 2026, as the 2026/2027 National Budget implementation begins next week (July 1).  One of the main features in this Act is the adjustments in …

    A wave of opposition arrests, military detentions and treason charges signals a deepening political crisis   COVER STORY | IAN KATUSIIME | Uganda’s security agencies’ continued abduction and torture of political opponents, with Erias Lukwago, former Kampala Lord Mayor and lawyer to the incarcerated Dr Kizza Besigye on …

  Whether via emergency evacuation or outreach vaccination, Uganda’s boat ambulances are life-preservers for remote island communities   Mukono, Uganda | JOHN MUSENZE | When 36-year-old Rebecca Nabiryo began bleeding four months into her pregnancy, midwife Ruth Gokyalya was more worried than she would have been if they hadn’t both …

  Kampala, Uganda | URN | Kampala Lord Mayor and People’s Front for Freedom (PFF) President Erias Lukwago has been brought to the magistrates’ court premises at Makindye, where the government is set to charge him with misprision of treason. Medard Ssegona is leading his defence team. Misprision of treason is …