The opposition pressure group, Activists for Change insists it will go on with its planned protests, even as government issues fresh warnings against it. Police yesterday fired teargas to disperse a crowd that had gathered in Nyendo, Masaka where FDC President, Rtd. Col Kizza Besigye and other opposition leaders addressed them. Speaking to the […]
For the past two or so weeks, we haven’t seen any of the popular walk to work protests that had come to characterize every Monday and Thursday of the week. The leaders of the Activists for Change who led the protests have been insisting they are still going on but we haven’t seen much since […]
We can talk n talk but can we do the walk? You must have heard of that song in which some musicians claim mbu some people in this country will talk n talk…and that some people talk but they can’t do the walk? There is a way I believe some of our brothers in the […]
Activists for change have launched a series of new campaigns to follow the walk to work, walk to pray campaign which was launched earlier geared at informing the government of the issues affecting Ugandans. Speaking at a press conference today in Kampala, the national coordinator of A4C, Mathius Mpuga says they are starting with prayers on […]
The politics of Uganda has been characterised by reactionary ideology (not progressive, not patriotic) before colonialism, during colonialism and after colonialism. Before colonialism, following the collapse of the Bachwezi Empire around 1500 AD, this area was being dominated by small kingdoms and chiefdoms: Bunyoro, Buganda, Ankole, Tooro, Rwanda, Burundi, Karagwe, the chiefdoms of Buhaya, Busoga, […]
The Uganda national students association UNSA has warned students in institutions to shun the ongoing walk to work protests. The president of the Uganda National Students Association, Richard Okelo Abala said that since the walk to walk kicked off many students have been injured or arrested in the fracas between the opposition and police. Addressing press briefing at their offices in Kampala, […]
The walk to work protests that started early April have reduced the Growth Domestic Product (GDP) according to the report from Ministry of Tourism. While talking to the press conference in Kampala, the Ministry of Tourism Spokesperson, Edwin Muzahura said that in only one month the country has lost about 100 billion shillings. Muzahura says […]
Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) vice president, Salam Musumba has revealed that the party president, Rt.Col. Dr. Kizza Besigye is set to return back to Uganda on Wednesday morning aboard Kenya airlines. According to the party’s top brass, Besigye is expected to touch down at 9am from the Kenyan capital Nairobi where he has been receiving treatment after he was spread […]
Members of Parliament from the ruling national Resistance Movement party have rejected a demand by the opposition mps to have police officer Arinaitwe Gilbert and Kampala metropolitan regional police commander Kampala Grace Turyagumanawe to be prosecuted for their action during the violent arrest of Forum for Democrat Change President, Dr. Kizza Besigye. The NRM side […]
The Uganda Law Society on Wednesdaybegun their three-day sit-down strike at the High Court building in Kampala in which they are protesting the increased brutality of the police force and what they term as eroding of the rule of law. The lawyers led by their President Bruce Kyerere presented a petition to the Chief Justice […]