Sudan RSF leader visits Uganda in first known wartime foreign trip
Reuters The leader of Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo said on Wednesday he met Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni, his first confirmed appearance outside of Sudan since the war between RSF and the Sudanese army broke out in April. Dagalo, whose whereabouts during the war have been unknown, said on X the […]
Uganda sends more troops to pursue attackers who killed 37 students
Kampala, UgandaReuters Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni on Sunday ordered more troops to western Uganda where attackers from a group with links to Islamic State killed at least 37 secondary school students. Members of the rebel Allied Democratic Forces killed the students late on Friday at Lhubirira Secondary School in Mpondwe, near the border with the […]
UN rights chief urges Uganda’s President Museveni not to sign bill prescribing death, life sentence for LGBTQ people
Kampala, Uganda The United Nations High Commissioners for Human Rights, Volker Turk, has asked President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda not to sign the anti-homosexuality bill that was passed by the country’s parliament on Tuesday. The bill that proposes a death penalty for the offence of aggravated homosexuality, life imprisonments for the offence of homosexuality, up […]
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 […]
Ugandan clergy call for restraint ahead of 2021 polls
Religious leaders in Uganda have asked the government and the civil society to exercise restraint as a crackdown on civil liberties gathers momentum ahead of the 2021 general election. The Anglican Bishop of Mukono Diocese, the Rt Rev James William Sebaggala, told Sight officials in government as well as those in civil society must take responsibility for […]
Ugandan election: Two prominent pastors enter presidential race as clergy flock to politics ahead of 2021 election
JOHN SEMAKULA reports how two pastors are hoping to bring Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni’s long rule to an end in next year’s presidential election…
Pentecostal pastors vow to fight proposed Uganda church regulations in court
Kampala, UgandaRNS Pentecostal pastor Amos Mugabi used fighting words recently when talking to hundreds of congregants about a proposed government policy he believes is threatening thousands of churches’ existence. “Satan is fighting the church,” prayed Mugabi. “The government wants to stop the church from spreading the good news of Christ, and we’ll not let that […]
UGANDA: BOBI WINE CASE HEIGHTENS TENSIONS BETWEEN MUSEVENI AND CHURCH LEADERS
DOREEN AJIAMBO, of Religion News Service, reports…