Politics

1Uganda, since the colonial days, has grappled helplessly with a barbaric and ferocious vice of ethnic and religious sectarianism, often shoved down our spines by selfish and evidently incompetent leaders, mostly in the political arena. Our history, shaped by the deep-seated mischiefs stemming from sectarian tendencies, serves as a vital lesson. It reminds us to learn from our past and to move beyond these harmful and anti-people flaws. The divide-and-rule strategy employed by the British colonial administration was significantly reinforced by...

The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) has arrested a man who confessed to having planted and detonated a bomb that killed a top general, Igor Kirillov, in Moscow on the instructions of Ukraine's security service. A footage released on Wednesday, December 19, 2024, showed the interrogation of the alleged killer of General Igor Kirillov. In the video, an arrested Uzbek citizen confessed to his involvement in the terrorist attack that resulted in Kirillov's death. General Kirillov and his aide were killed...

The National Unity Platform (NUP) party President, Robert Kyagulanyi, aka Bobi Wine, has predictably continued to exhibit political immaturity and ideological deficiency in all his political activities in the country and abroad. Ugandans have waited for Bobi Wine to tell them what he would do for them if given a chance to be president, but it has turned into a tall order. Bobi Wine, instead of marketing his manifesto like other politicians do, has, for all his political life, done nothing...

In a troubling development, several asylum seekers associated with the National Unity Platform (NUP) are facing imminent deportation from their host countries due to the use of forged documents processed prior to their traveling abroad. This situation was brought to light to this website through some of the affected victims who allege that NUP bosses helped them forge travel documents from Nasser with false medical reports alleging persecution and mistreatment. The background NUP, a political opposition party in Uganda, has been a...

Congolese President Félix Tshisekedi and Rwandan President Paul Kagame are set to meet for critical talks amid escalating tensions in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), particularly over allegations that Rwanda is supporting the M23 rebel group. Speaking to the press recently, Congolese Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Thérèse Kayikwamba, a prominent figure in Congolese diplomacy, explained that Angolan President João Lourenço will mediate Sunday's crucial negotiations.  The talks will focus on key issues, including the neutralization of...

The National Resistance Movement (NRM) Deputy Secretary General Rose Namayanja Nsereko has emphasised the importance of the ongoing party membership register digitalization exercise that is aimed at creating a comprehensive, computerized database for the party. Speaking after an inspection visit to the Greater Mukono data center on December 11, 2024, Namayanja explained that the exercise involves transferring data from physical registers which were updated earlier this year into a comprehensive database. "What we are doing today is entering all that data...