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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...

NIGERIA’S PARAMILITARY ARRESTS 76 YOUTHS ON GAY WEDDING & BIRTHDAY

76 youths including 59 men and 17 women were arrested on Saturday, 21st October 2023 by Nigeria’s paramilitary on charges of organizing a gay...

IN-DEPTH: HOW UGANDA POLICE FORCE IS UNDER MILITARY CAPTURE

Human rights defenders/organizations, politicians and other concerned stakeholders continue to decry human rights violation by Ugandan security forces including police and the military, accused...

MBARARA PASTOR ARRESTED AFTER A VIRAL VIDEO OF HIM PROMISING TO JUBILATE WHEN PRESIDENT MUSEVENI LEAVES POWER

Opposition politicians especially from the National Unity Platform-NUP, some pastors and activists in Mbarara city western Uganda have accused security forces for intimidating them,...

AT LEAST 6 JOURNALISTS KILLED IN GAZA: ISRAELI STRIKE KILLS REUTERS VIDEOGRAPHER ISSAM ABDALLAH

The Reuters news agency has confirmed that its videographer Issam Abdallah has died, and several others wounded in today’s shelling attack by Israeli forces...

SGBV: 16-YR-OLD JUVENILE ARRESTED FOR ALLEGEDLY DEFILING A 5-YEAR-OLD CHILD

Police in Rubirizi district western Uganda have arrested a 16-year-old juvenile on allegations of defiling a five-year-old child. https://x.com/RiseNewsUganda/status/1706241488135307511?s=20 Martial Tumusiime, the Greater Bushenyi police spokesperson...

HON. CRISPIN KAHERU: WE NEED MORE HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS

The Honourable Member of the Uganda Human Rights Commission (UHRC), Hon. Crispin Kaheru has emphasized the need for more Human Rights Defenders due to...