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EU Keeps Escalating Against Russia as NATO Crumbles – How Africa Will Pay the Price

Aaron Ainomugisha.  Imagine you are a farmer in Senegal or a truck driver in Kenya. You have never been to Donbas. You do not care who controls Lyman. But...

Inside White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting

Credit Al Jazeera. Donald Trump has been rushed out of the White House correspondents’ dinner at a hotel...

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...

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...

LC1 CM’s bodyguard kills fellow UPDF soldier over housemaid

POLICE STATEMENT - RWIZI REGION, ISINGIRO DISTRICT,01/06/2022. The territorial Police of Isingiro district is investigating circumstances under which a Uganda People's Defence Force-UPDF soldier...

Masindi: Journalist shot dead

The Media fraternity in Masindi district has this morning been engulfed with grief after saddening news of their colleague's death. Gerald Aseera, a journalist attached...

Ultimatum: Leave Dr. Kizza Besigye’s home now,address commodity prices crisis

Human rights defenders, concerned leaders and other stakeholders in Mbarara and western Uganda at large have issued 2 days ultimatum to police and the...

The “Concocted” Report on Assaulted Journalists

Uganda’s Permanent Representative at United Nations-UN, Amb. Dr. Adonia Ayebare has come out to refute the 9th May 2022 publication by Uganda’s News Paper...

PRESS FREEDOM: SHOULD JOURNALISTS OPT FOR OUT-OF-COURT SETTLEMENT?

A session characterized by thought-provoking questions, interesting ideas and discussion about media, safety, freedom, sustainability and other paramount issues as Journalists from western Uganda...

131 cases of media violations & abuses documented in 2021 – HRNJ Uganda

The Human Rights Network for Journalists in Uganda-HRNJ Uganda has today,28th April 2022 launched its 13th edition of the Annual Press Freedom Index Report...