Police in Uganda block opposition prayer rallies; arrest 22
Kampala, Uganda Security agencies in Uganda used teargas to disperse supporters of opposition political parties who had gathered in Kampala on Friday for end of year prayer events. The events had been organised by two key opposition political party leaders – Colonel Kizza Besigye, of the Forum for Democratic Change, and Robert Kyagulanyi, also known […]
Ugandan Government accuses Catholic Church of “meddling” in politics
Kampala, Uganda The Ugandan Government has accused the Catholic Church of failing to play its core role of spreading the Gospel and instead meddling in electoral politics. While addressing a press conference in Kampala last weekend, the Minister for Presidency, Esther Mbayo, told journalists that Catholic Archbishop Cyprian Kizito Lwanga, of Kampala Archdiocese, and Catholic […]
100 hours in the dark: How an election internet blackout hit poor Ugandans
Nairobi, Kenya/Kampala, UgandaThomson Reuters Foundation When Uganda ordered an internet shutdown on the eve of the presidential election, groundnut seller Susan Tafumba’s trade collapsed. The 34-year-old sells groundnuts at Kampala’s Nakawa market, but much of her business now comes through a mobile phone app that customers use to order goods to be delivered to them […]
UGANDA: BOBI WINE CASE HEIGHTENS TENSIONS BETWEEN MUSEVENI AND CHURCH LEADERS
DOREEN AJIAMBO, of Religion News Service, reports…