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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...

WESTERN UGANDA: THE STORY OF A RETIRED CATECHIST, ALLEGED AGGRAVATED HOMOSEXUALITY & TRAFFICKING SAGA  

David Kagabwa, a retired catechist hailing from Kigunda cell Kati parish Kanyabwanga sub-county in Mitooma district western Uganda and his accomplice Kenneth Atuhikire are...

GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE: KASESE’S DETERIORATING SITUATION

Leaders and other stakeholders in Kasese district western Uganda have expressed concern over the deteriorating situation as gender-based violence (GBV) cases escalate in the...

HRAPF,MP Fox Odoi,Journalist Andrew Mwenda and 8 others petition constitutional court over Anti-homosexuality law 2023

The Human Rights Awareness and Promotion Forum-HRAPF organization and 10 people have petitioned the Constitutional Court challenging the Anti-homosexuality law 2023 signed by President...

MBARARA CITY,WESTERN UGANDA: LGBTQIA+ community worried as local leaders gang up against them

By Aarron Ainomugisha. Members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer/questioning, asexual-LGBTQIA+ community in Mbarara city and other parts of western Uganda have...

PRESIDENT MUSEVENI WARNED: WHITE HOUSE, EU, AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL & UN CONDEMN UGANDA’S NEW ANTI-HOMOSEXUALITY BILL

The White House and the European Union (EU) have joined the United Nations (UN), Amnesty International and other human rights groups in condemning Uganda’s...

WESTERN UGANDA: SUSPECTED LGBTQIA+ MEMBERS FIRED FROM WORK

By Aaron Ainomugisha. Two men suspected to be members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer/questioning, asexual-LGBTQIA+ community have been fired from work...