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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...

UGANDA COMMUNICATION COMMISSION SHUTS DOWN 11 RADIO STATIONS

The Uganda Communications Commission-UCC has ordered the shutdown of 11 radio stations across the country for operating illegally. The UCC ED, Hon. Nyombi Thembo...

Ugandan Journalists Should Be Patriotic – Ambassador Dickson Ogwang 

Aaron Ainomugisha. Uganda has increasingly become a priority for foreign investors, superpowers and other foreign players undertaking different projects due to different favorable diplomatic...

UMEME CITED IN KABALE JOURNALISTS’ & SOCIAL MEDIA INFLUENCERS’ ARREST AS LOCALS PLAN TO ‘MARCH TO UMEME’ 

Police in Kabale municipality western Uganda have been accused by media rights activists for conniving with UMEME to arrest a group of journalists and...

PROMOTING QUALITY & IMPACTFUL JOURNALISM: Uganda National Journalism Awards 2024 winners

CREDIT – The African Centre for Media-Excellence-ACME.  The winners of the Uganda National Journalism Awards 2024 were announced at a colourful gala held at...

SHRINKING PRESS FREEDOM IN UGANDA: JOURNALISTS DICKSON MUBIRU AND ALIRABAKI SSENGOBA FURTHUR REMANDED

SHRINKING PRESS FREEDOM IN UGANDA. Buganda road court has further remanded two journalists, Dickson Mubiru and Alirabaki Ssengooba to Luzira prison until July 9,...

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange freed in US plea deal

After a years-long legal saga, Wikileaks says that founder Julian Assange has left the UK after reaching a deal with US authorities, for him...