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Challenged in Russia, because of the war against Ukraine, TotalEnergies’ business is also contested in East Africa. A month ago, we denounced the oil company’s mega-project in Uganda and Tanzania in these columns. We return to the development of mobilisations against this programme on the (...)
On Tuesday, 17 November 2015, the Uganda government signed an agreement with Export-Import Bank of China (Exim Bank) to borrow $207 million at two per cent upon disbursement. The loan had a maturity period of 20 years including a seven-year grace period.
It has now emerged that the deal signed (...)
Discussing the recent elections, Luke Melchiorre argues that Uganda’s Bobi Wine is a symbol for a generation’s desire for political change. However, his power has often distracted attention from the underlying politics of his People Power project. Melchiorre explains that Wine did not disavow the (...)
Ugandan activist and politician Dr. Stella Nyanzi challenges a new generation of women to take up the struggle for political freedoms and revolution.
It is difficult to articulate the place and position of Dr. Stella Nyanzi, medical anthropologist and women’s and LGBTQ rights activist, in (...)
The discovery of commercially viable quantities of oil in Uganda’s Albertine Graben region in 2006 triggered a mad dash for land, in an area where its people are historically well known for having staged spirited resistance against British colonial invaders in the second half of the 19th (...)
Government hails 2% levy on alcohol and water as step towards greater independence from donors
Taxes levied on alcohol and soft drinks in Uganda will be used to fund the country’s HIV treatment programmes, in a move designed to make the country less reliant on donors.
The government believes (...)
Campaigners are warned they will break the anti-homosexuality law if they open safe space
Activists trying to open Uganda’s first centre for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people have been told their plans for a safe space are illegal.
Simon Lokodo, minister for ethics and integrity, (...)
President Yoweri Museveni has ruled Uganda with authoritarian firmness for the last 32 years. But even his most ardent supporters were shocked by the ferocity with which his security forces recently meted out violence on journalists and supporters of Robert Kyagulanyi, a (...)
Ugandan singer turned politician Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, known as Bobi Wine, is at the centre of a storm in the East African nation.
A protester in Nairobi, Kenya, displays a poster calling for Bobi Wine’s release. Daniel Irungu/EPA
Ssentamu has been arrested and charged with treason in (...)
The net remains the only safe place for dissent – but President Museveni would rather silence critics than address their issues
On the morning of 1 July, Ugandans woke to find they could not read their WhatsApp messages, scroll through the chitchat on Facebook and Twitter, or post a picture of (...)
Kasha Jacqueline Nabagesera is one of the leading LGBTI (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex) activists on the African continent. She is one of the founding members of the Ugandan LGBTI movement and played an instrumental role in scrapping down draconian anti-gay legislation in (...)
The report of the Auditor General (AG) for 2016–2017 is another catalogue of systemic theft, embezzlement and wastage of public goods. In this, it is similar to audit reports going back at least two decades. It appears that incompetence as much as theft are responsible for the seeming inadequacy (...)
Uganda has finally admitted that there is an increasing likelihood that the country will default on its debt obligations. The (Central) Bank of Uganda issued the warning in the first quarterly State of the Economy Report of 2018. The public external debt has trebled in the last three years. (...)
Three years ago, Samuel Mugisha almost quit his job. As the driver of a motorbike taxi (known locally as a boda-boda) in the Ugandan capital of Kampala, rampant police harassment was having a huge, negative impact on his daily earnings. But today, Samuel is thriving as a member of the (...)
Uganda is in imminent danger of defaulting on its debt repayment obligations. The Auditor General notes in 2017 that interest payments on the public debt exceeded legal limits (15% of the annual budget) and are likely to be unsustainable going forward.
What will follow will be attempts by (...)
An abiding image of Uganda in April 2017 is of a group of elderly people squatting around an anthill, men and women, patting it with bunches of greenery to coax the termites out. They then pluck up the termites and eat them, not as the seasonal delicacy usually caught by young people on moonlit (...)
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This paper analyses the power resources of informal transport workers in Uganda, and the transformation processes of the ATGWU and their newly-affiliated informal workers’ associations in organising informal workers. We examined the process of organisation; how strategic choices were (...)
Uganda’s draconian Anti-homosexuality Bill is currently awaiting President Yoweri Museveni’s signature. President Museveni has 30 days from 23 January 2014 when the bill was presented to him to either sign it into law or return it back to Parliament for reconsideration. The bill is in gross (...)
Uganda’s coalition of LGBTI activists today urged their international supporters to speak out against the repressive Anti-Homosexuality Bill that was recently passed by the Ugandan parliament, but to take care with any threats to withhold foreign aid.
Any discussion with Ugandan officials (...)
Uganda held a historic weekend long gay pride which turned out a success despite a police raid, widespread homophobia and anti-gay laws.
Uganda’s LGBT community was able to conduct a weekend of gay pride events despite police arrests and harassment.
The historic LGBT pride was a series of (...)
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