Our Investigations
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
Read More
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
‘Worse than business as usual’: EU overlooks Uganda’s attack on human rights
The European Union claims to stand up for human rights, the rule of law, transparency in government and peaceful, democratic elections. Yet in recent years…
How Makerere erased our freedoms
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…
Karimojong women and children face tough choices home and away
Former President Apollo Milton Obote is famously quoted in the Uganda Gazette of 1963 to have said that “we shall not wait for Karamoja to…
Fresh details on digital number plates
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…