The Brilliant press secretary to Ugandan president Yoweri Kaguta Museveni last week repeated his argument that most Ugandan journalists are actually political activists...

The mood of fear has once again reasserted itself in Ugandan society. This comes mainly ahead of the general elections due in 2011. Timothy Kalyegira looks at why?

Uganda’s former army chief James Kazini has been killed at his girlfriend’s flat in the capital, Kampala. A BBC correspondent says Maj Gen Kazini died...

The border between Uganda and Democratic Republic of Congo is being redrawn — by a river! Technocrats from the two countries are quietly working to head off a...

The gay community in Uganda has turned to social media — blogs, twitter, mailing lists and Facebook — in a bid to garner support for its opposition to the...

The year 2009 shall be best remembered as the ‘Black Year’ in the media fraternity in Uganda and the reasons for this have always been certain. The last...

nalysis of the national voters’ register confirmed that “some ghost voters existed”. Speaking at a monthly caucus of MPs from the ruling party, President Museveni...

THE Government is going to crack down on media houses that publish pornography, ethics minister James Buturo announced on Thursday. Radio stations that advertise...

Ugandan security agencies on Friday foiled a bomb plot in the capital Kampala just a week after Somali militants threatened terror attacks on the city. Gerald...

A primary school head teacher in Luweero District could lose his job amid accusations that he strip-searched five girls who were accused of stealing money from another...

Homosexuals should not be killed but instead imprisoned for life, religious leaders have suggested. Making their input in the Anti-homosexuality Bill 2009 yesterday,...

Journalists in developing countries have one common problem with governments.....persecution! And then, when the journalists are persecuted, it obviously become media...

A Belgian tourist who was arrested on Saturday for taking pictures of naked girls and women in Gulu has been sent to prison on remand. Mr Peter Kets, a 39-year-old man...

Turkish website hackers are on rampange defacing government and media websites in developing countries. The latest casuality in the Kampala dispatch (a newsletter) that...

PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni has warned Islamist rebels who threatened to attack Kampala that they will pay a heavy price if they did so. “Those groups, I would advise...

The chattels security bill 2009 being debated in parliament, will if passed into law, grant Ugandans the ability to access loans using household property. Banks usually...

One out of every 10 names in the national voters register is a ghost, an NRM special internal investigation has revealed. The report, commissioned in May by NRM...

Kenya has once again topped the list of the most corrupt countries in the region. Transparency international’s bribery index says Kenya has the most incidents of...

The swine flu outbreak that has affected various schools in the country has led the ministry of health to issue a ban stopping parents and guardians visiting students...

Even though the government has denied the information as media rumours, this is the second time that Kenya has been mentioned in issues regarding the militia and the...