Assassinated by former president Idi Amin, Benedicto Kiwanuka was Uganda’s most controversial and disruptive politician. On the eve of independence in 1962, he led the Democratic Party (DP), a ...

Colonialism did not express the civilising impulses of the colonialist. Instead, it revealed the socio-economic conditions in the West. It is common knowledge that the colonialist exploited Africa to ...

The foundations of Uganda's modern police force were laid on this day in 1906 when the colonial administration officially renamed the Uganda Armed Constabulary to the Uganda Protectorate Police, a ...

The Minister of State for the Uganda Ministry of Tourism, Wildlife and Antiquities (MTWA), Hon. Martin Mugarra Bahinduka, received 39 significant and priceless artifacts at Entebbe International ...

Uganda’s Owen Falls hydropower plant has a rich history that predates the country’s independence in 1962. The plant is located across the White Nile and sits between the towns of Jinja and Njeru on ...

Uganda has started construction to restore a British-era railway line after it failed to get funding from China for another standard gauge railway (SGR). The line will cut the cost of shipping goods ...

On 5 December, we at the Human Rights Awareness and Promotion Forum (HRAPF) received an alert from Uganda’s Constitutional Court. The court was about to pass judgment in our case challenging the ...

Once a tool of British colonial rule, Uganda’s anti-homosexuality laws are now being used to forge national identity, permeating all avenues of life. Decriminalisation must only be the first step in ...

Uganda's Owen Falls hydropower plant has a rich history that predates the country's independence in 1962. The plant is located across the White Nile and sits between the towns of Jinja and Njeru on ...