Politics

For years, speculation has spun around the operations of the National Unity Platform (NUP), especially the army of dedicated 'foot soldiers' who accompany the party president and other top party leaders at rallies, processions, and even burial events. Clad in their signature red berets and overalls, these individuals are always at the forefront—clearing the way, brutalizing onlookers, confronting security, and energizing crowds with chants of solidarity. Most of the times, they outmatch the organic crowds gathered for the events. This...

The detained former presidential candidate Kizza Besigye seems to have not only lost relevance in the central region but also in Rukungiri district his home. Besigye lost the central region which was the epicenter of opposition to the National Unity platform party and indeed the 2021 elections saw the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) party lose the position of Leader of Opposition in Parliament. The four times presidential candidate and one of FDC’s pillars used to be Rukungiri’s Lion that...

During the inauguration of Donald Trump as the 47th president of the United States at the Capital One Arena on January 20, 2024, President Trump had no kind words for homosexuality and those promoting it. “As of today, it will henceforth be the official policy of the United States government that there are only two genders, male and female,” President Trump said. Trump’s declaration is not good news for Bobi Wine and his National Unity Platform cult since they have been...

The Deputy Director General of the Internal Security Organisation (ISO), Col. Emmy Katabazi, has urged the National Resistance Movement (NRM) mobilisers from Busoga region to embrace the spirit of innovation and support the revolutionary struggle. Col. Katabazi made the remarks on January 20, 2025, while giving a lecture of opportunity to the mobilisers, where he urged them to adapt to modern economic realities to ensure a prosperous future, emphasizing that the way of doing things must change, including how they...

The opposition Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) party’s national youth league has encouraged young people to actively participate in the ongoing voter register update exercise. Francis Adepo, the FDC Youth League chairperson, said Chairperson Adepo Francis was addressing the weekly presser at the party headquarters in Najjanankumbi on Monday, January 20, 2025. Adepo said that as FDC they commend the flexible roadmap of the 2026 general elections and called upon all Ugandan youths to fully embrace it. “These registers are going to...

The leader of the Democratic Alliance (DA), a local political pressure group, MP Mathias Mpuuga, has confirmed that he is ready to kick Robert Kyagulanyi and his National Unity Platform Party from the opposition politics in 2026. Mpuuga, who is also the former Leader of the Opposition in Parliament, said that Bobi Wine and the entire NUP group will, beginning in 2025, be facing rough political terrain as they embark on their mobilization. During a media briefing on Monday, January 20,...