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Are CSOs In Uganda Under Attack?

The Financial Intelligence Authority (FIA) has frozen bank accounts belonging to several non-governmental organisations operating in Uganda as part of ongoing investigations into the sources of their funding and...

LETTER TO PRESIDENT MUSEVENI: Akandwanaho Joshua Israel – NRM Flag Bearer & Former Contestant For Worker’s MP 2026-2031

The President of Uganda and Chairman of NRM-PARTY. Your Excellency President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni State House Kampala, Uganda Your Excellency, As I...

Inside the July session of 2026 UN High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development-HLPF

SDGs Knowledge Hub. The UN Secretariat has published the programme for the July session of the 2026 UN...

NORTH KOREA: Schoolchildren & other people being executed for watching Squid Game and other foreign media 

Additional reporting - Sky News. People in North Korea, including schoolchildren, are being executed for watching Squid Game...

STILL MISSING: ABDUCTED NUP VP WESTERN UGANDA JOLLY JACKLYN TUKAMUSHABA’S FAMILY WORRIED & STRUGGLING

Ashaba Patricia,the first born of Jackline Tukamushaba - NUP Vice President Western Uganda and Rukiga district Woman MP...

HOW GOLD & SAND MINERS ARE DEGRADING THE ENVIRONMENT IN ANKOLE

Residents, leaders and environmental/climate activists in the districts of Buhweju, Sheema and Rwampara in Ankole sub-region western Uganda have expressed concerns over the escalating...

HOW NYABUHIKYE & KIBURARA PRISONS ARE DEGRADING IBANDA WETLANDS

Environmental defenders and authorities in Ibanda district have decried escalating degradation of wetlands especially by government institutions which put the environment/climate at a high...

NEMA orders Hoima Sugar Ltd to restore degraded areas in Kikuube, cancels approval for urban centre development in the ecosystem 

The National Environment Management Authority-NEMA statement on Tuesday, September 27, 2022. NEMA has ordered Hoima Sugar LTD to restore degraded parts of Kikuube mixed...

IS THE EACOP UNDER ATTACK BY EU?

The Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Rt. Hon. Thomas Tayebwa has condemned resolutions by the European Parliament against construction of the East African Crude Oil...

MBALE FLOODS: 9 BODIES RECOVERED SO FAR, SERVICES PARALYSED

A body of Uganda People’s Defence Forces-UPDF officer is among the nine that have so far been recovered following floods that swept through Mbale...

Conserve biodiversity & culture to boost tourism – Miss Tourism Ankole 2022/23 contestant Lillian Namara Kigundu

Variety of life on Earth at different levels; genes to ecosystems encompassing the evolutionary, ecological and cultural processes that sustain life. There is a...