Disinformation in Uganda’s 2025-26 general election cycle
Uganda’s election year 2025-2026 is here and the country’s legacy or mainstream media houses and their digital affiliates should either have or be drawing up strategies about how their coverage will maximise audience attention, make them money, and k
Part I: One political activist’s lasting fight with Speaker Among
An acquittance invited Habib Buwembo, 42, a renown political activist, for a meeting at a Kampala hotel in January 2017. When Buwembo arrived, the acquittance asked him to sit, and excused himself. Suddenly, Anita Among (now the speaker of parliament), then an ordinary Member of Parliament, a few…
Part II: How Buwembo was jailed for threatening Speaker Among
On February 8, 2022, the Ugandan parliament was unusually charged. One after another, legislators lambasted government over widespread state-sponsored torture. Kampala Central MP, Mohammad Nsereko, had increasingly toned down his criticism of government. But on this day, he was unusually livid. The problem was so severe that that torture victims were owed Shs12…
How Uganda tried to silence #March2Parliament protests
“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…
Poor fishing communities targeted and discriminated against on L.Victoria
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,…
‘Release our people’ – Wives & mothers of political victims cry out
Since the 2021 elections, hundreds of opposition supporters have been detained, disappeared, and even killed. Some are facing trial before the Military Court Martial. The whereabouts of others…
How Makerere erased our freedoms – Part 2
Three decades later, it is telling that at Makerere University, political parties have been abolished, physical campaigns and voting banned, dissenting lecturers forced to leave,…
How to spot fake news
Fake news is nothing new, but bogus stories can reach more people via social media than what good old-fashioned viral emails could accomplish in the years past. A…
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