“I expected to be killed. I expected to be raped,” said Aloikin Praise Opoloje, a few days after she was released from detention on bail in August this year.  The 25-year-old law student had been arrested, along with dozens of others, after taking part in an anti-corruption protest in Kampala on 23 July. During the arrest, one male police officer had put his hands between her legs and squeezed her…

A year after his arrest by the Fish Protection Unit of the Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF), Moses Musitwa was still paying off debts he incurred to get out of prison when we interviewed him for this story in April this year.   Musitwa, a resident of Buyange Island,…

It is 7:00pm July 14, 2022. Despite the onset of darkness, hundreds of students are moving on all university roads, chanting their candidates’ names. On the road from Livingstone Hall to Mitchell Hall alone, about 10 bands draped in different colours of different political parties, are singing all tribes of names and sounds. Kadodi (the Gishu traditional dance) is the most dominant. Suddenly, there is gloom. News is circulating that at…

As July 01 which is the new launch deadline for digital number plates in Uganda approaches, The Independent has new details about Security Minister Jim Muhwezi’s troubles in ensuring it does not fail this time – despite many concerns. Details emerging centre around a meeting that Muhwezi called in the President’s Office in Kampala on Feb.13. In attendance at the high level meeting held in the cabinet library were about…