KAMPALA, May 4 (Xinhua) -- Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni on Monday extended the nationwide COVID-19 lockdown for another 14 days, while easing some of the 35 restrictions aimed at stopping the spread of the virus. Museveni in a televised address said the lockdown will now expire in t...
The panel of five judges led by Deputy Chief Justice Richard Buteera received written submission and arguments from gay rights activists and civil society organizations seeking to declare the new legislation, which President Yoweri Museveni signed into law in May 2023, "null and void." Buteera sa...
We recall the Kale Kayihura saga and the circumstance under which President Museveni took drastic measures to purge the police of “weevils” suspected of serving subversive foreign interests. Museveni insists that the police (and probably other security agencies) are heavily infiltrated and may have...
Scott Lively has been active abroad as well. In 2006, he founded the Lativian-based Watchmen on the Walls, yet another hate group. The name comes from the book of Nehemiah, in which watchmen protect the reconstruction of Jerusalem. Today, what’s being protected is society, and the threat...
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author and Harvard law professor served at the U.N. during President Barack Obama's second term. She co-hosted the U.N. Security Council's first-ever hearing on LGBTQ rights in 2015 that featured a gay Syrian and gay Iraqi telling their experiences at the height...
Severe censorship under former dictator Idi Amin's rule hindered the press, but under the current president Yoweri Museveni's rule, the press appears to be flourishing. There are now about 12 newspapers, of which three are English daily papers—New Vision, the government-owned paper, The Star...
By ruth sierra on August 23, 2018 Arrests, Bobi Wine, Charges, Freedom Corner, gulu, Kenyans, Law society in Kenya, MPs, nairobi, Police, president, protests, Robert Kyagulanyi, Steerts of Nairobi, uganda, Ugandans in Kenya Regional Kenyans joined to Ugandans in protesting against the ...
African leadership and the role of the presidency in African conflicts : a case study of Uganda's president Yoweri Museveni ENGLISH ABSTRACT: As a wave of political uprisings swept across North Africa since January 2011, ridding the region of longstanding autocratic lea... M Botha - 《Stellenbo...
Polling agents from the National Resistance Movement (NRM) party celebrate the victory of Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni in the concluded general elections in Kampala, Uganda January 16, 2021. REUTERS/Baz Ratner KAMPALA (Reuters) - Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has scored a decisive...
law was restored. In 2001 Museveni allowed political parties to form and to compete for all offices in national elections, including the race for president. Amid fears that Museveni would lose in a free and fair election, he defeated his opponent by winning 69 percent of the popular vote. ...