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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...

IN-DEPTH: GENDER INEQUALITY AS KEY POPULATIONS SEEKING HIV CARE CHOKE ON UGANDA’S ANTI-HOMOSEXUALITY ACT 2023

On 26th May 2023, President Yoweri Museveni assented to Uganda’s new Anti-Homosexuality Act (AHA 2023), prompting some organizations and individuals to run to court...

UGANDA’S NEW ANTI-LGBTQIA+ ACT 2023: WORLD BANK SUSPENDS PUBLIC FINANCING TO UGANDA

The World Bank on Tuesday, August 8, 2023 released a statement on Uganda’s new war against sexual and gender minorities, following the passage of...

INSIDE UGANDA’S CASE BACKLOG AND CONGESTED PRISONS

Authorities at Bushenyi government prison (Nyamushekyera prison) have decried congestion at the facility which has increased health risks for prisoners especially women. Located in Bushenyi...

LGBTQIA+ Rights in Africa: Will Kenya be the latest to pass Anti-homosexuality Law?

CREDIT - Catherine Byaruhanga,BBC News, Nairobi. In the latest sign of rising homophobia in different African countries, a Kenyan opposition MP...

FRANCE PROTESTS: Thousands defy bans to rally against police brutality

ADDITIONAL REPORTING – AL JAZEERA. Thousands of French protesters have defied a ban to march in central Paris against police brutality, a week...

LGBTQIA+ CLAIMS: RWENZORI WEST & FORT PORTAL EAST POLICE HUNTING FOR A 37-YEAR-OLD PATRON

The Territorial Police in Rwenzori West and Fort Portal East division is actively hunting for Ssali Joash,37,a patron to a P.3 pupil aged 9...