Winners and losers: NRM should triumph in the general elections
By Ofwono Opondo By the time you read this article, the massive fallouts from the just concluded primaries to select NRM parliamentary flag-bearers would still be unravelling across the country. Bitter and sour tastes will be hard to swallow, while the winners will be smiling gleefully. Just imagine the ever-disruptive
Power Struggle Rocks UPC as Akena Fires Electoral Commissioners Amid Leadership Crisis
In a dramatic turn of events, Uganda People’s Congress (UPC) President Jimmy Akena has sacked three senior members of the party’s Electoral Commission, accusing them of plotting to usurp party leadership ahead of the 2026 general elections. The expelled officials—Vice Chairperson Jack Kabuusu and commissioners Magere Emmanuel and Aisha Naomi
Intra-Party Democracy: How The NRM Beats Others
By Ambassador Henry Mayega Uganda’s democratic bar has, during the Yoweri Museveni administration’s epochal supretendence, been raised to unprecedented levels rendering several old and new parties on the country’s political canvass failures and unable to cope with the dictates of the political parties and organizations act. The resumption of political
Deported Ugandan Ambassador Declines New Posting, Reaffirms UPC Loyalty
Joy Ruth Acheng, the former Ugandan High Commissioner to Canada and former Woman MP for Kole District, has publicly declared that she has never been a member of the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) party. Acheng was expelled from Canada in September 2024, after being declared persona non grata on
EC, Police Meet Over Violence in Kawempe By-Election Campaigns
The Electoral Commission (EC), led by Chairperson Justice Byabakama Mugenyi Simon, has met with senior leadership of the Uganda Police Force, headed by Director of Operations AIGP Frank Mwesigwa, to address the ongoing clampdown on opposition campaigns in the Kawempe by-election. Over the weekend, political campaigns for the Kawempe North
