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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...

National Coffee (Amendment) Bill 2024: Where Are the Gaps?

MISAIRI THEMBO KAHUNGU, Parliament Watch. On Thursday, 24th October 2024, Parliament voted to advance the National Coffee (Amendment) Bill, 2024, which proposes the dissolution...

UGANDA: WHY FARMERS MUST EMBRACE CLIMATE-FRIENDLY & SMART FARMING & AGRICULTURE  

Still relied on as the backbone of Uganda in terms of generating income and being a leading source of food, farming and agriculture across...

WHAT IS HINDERING UGANDA’S FIGHT AGAINST FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE?

Leaders from over 10 districts of Ankole sub-region have decried gaps in the fight against foot-and-mouth disease-FMD ravaging the cattle corridor, which led to...

OVER UGX30 BILLION COFFEE MONEY SCANDAL: HOW NELSON TUGUME OF INSPIRE AFRICA COFFEE TRICKED PRESIDENT MUSEVENI

On March 23, 2023, President Museveni held a meeting at State House Entebbe with National Resistance Movement (NRM) Parliamentary Regional Whips to promote the...

BILLIONS OF COFFEE MONEY STOLEN: INSIDE INSPIRE AFRICA COFFEE & ITS CEO NELSON TUGUME’S $20 MILLION SCANDAL

Coffee farmers and investors in Uganda have accused the CEO Inspire Africa Coffee, Nelson Tugume for pocketing US$20m (Ugx76,152,840,000) meant to finance coffee export...

INSIDE EAST AFRICA’S PRODUCTIVE USE OF OFF-GRID SOLAR

This explainer is produced as part of African Centre for Media Excellence-ACME’s two-year project, implemented in partnership with the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, to...