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New ACME Report: The Widening Gap between Uganda’s Media Laws and Constitutional Protections

CREDIT - ACME.   Uganda’s media sector faces mounting constraints from restrictive laws, expansive regulatory controls and financial pressure, according to a new report by the African Centre for Media...

UGANDA: Children’s Home Director Sentenced to 46 Years for Trafficking & Raping Young Girls

The Director of a Community Based Organisation (CBO) has been sentenced to serve 46 years in prison on...

Crisis in Journalism

PRESS RELEASE. LONDON/WASHINGTON, D.C. — Independent media outlets around the world are facing an unprecedented crisis, according to...

World Day Against Child Labour: 138 million children still trapped in child labour

On this year’s World Day Against Child Labour, 12 June, the International Trade Union Confederation-ITUC has called on...

How Trans Ugandans are building power through business

Achen, not her real name, is a soft-spoken 26-year-old from northern Uganda. She never imagined she would run...

CORRUPTION SCANDAL! Energy Ministry PRO Solomon Muyita & Other Govt Bosses in Trouble  

The Inspectorate of Government (IG) has ordered the Chief Administrative Officers-CAOs of Bundibugyo and Dokolo District Local Governments (DLGs), and the Town Clerk of Koboko...

RELIGIOUS EXTREMISM: Is Apostle Grace Lubega using Phaneroo Ministries Ugx200 Billion Complex Project to Clear over Ugx10 Billion Loan?

INSIDE STORY.  As the controversies that Apostle Grace Lubega, founder of Phaneroo Ministries International planning to build a $55 million (about Shs200 billion) complex...

MINISTER JIM MUHWEZI & NRM MOBILIZER PEACE RUGAMBWA WRANGLE DEEPENS

Western Uganda. Rukungiri district controversial NRM mobiliser, Peace Rugambwa is nursing injuries after she was reportedly attacked and beaten up by UPDF soldiers. Rugambwa says...

State House scandal: Why President Museveni’s Trusted Aide Michael Christopher Ayeranga has been Arrested

State House has been locked in a scandal where one of President Museveni’s most trusted aides, Michael Christopher Ayeranga, was implicated in a major...

BLOODY: NEC-WATU Automobile Group & UPDF Cited as Chinese Investors in Uganda Fight Over Industrial Park

The usually quiet Namanve Industrial Park, 10 km east of Kampala, has turned into a hotspot as fights among investors turn bloody. Two Chinese...

YOTV PRORIETOR AGGREY MUGISHA SENT TO PRISON OVER UGX264 MILLON NSSF ARREARS  

The troubles surrounding Al Bayan Media Limited proprietor, Aggrey Mugisha have escalated after being remanded by Buganda Road Chief Magistrate’s court for allegedly failing...