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Three Ugandan lawmakers, members of the ruling party have been charged with corruption for trying to influence a rights body to inflate its budget, Reuters reported. The three legislators – Mutembuli, Paul Akamba and Cissy Namujju Dionizia – were charged with corruption late on Wednesday at the High Court in …

Uganda’s ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) on Tuesday set a date for expressions of interest for the post of Speaker of Parliament following the death of Jacob Oulanyah, senior sources said. The Central Executive Committee (CEC) will later convene on Wednesday and Caucus on Thursday. Sources added that the election …

President Yoweri Museveni has once again accused tech giant Facebook of being biased against Uganda’s ruling party and its supporters. The social media platform suspended several accounts linked to the National Resistance Movement (NRM) party days to the January election, accusing them of being involved in Coordinated Inauthentic Behaviour (CIB) …

The leader of the National Unity Platform (NUP) Mr Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine has instructed his lawyers to withdraw the presidential poll petition which he had filed in the Supreme Court, challenging President Museveni’s victory in the January 14 general election. “We are withdrawing from the courts but we …

Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine filed a supreme court challenge on Monday seeking cancellation of the results of a presidential election that handed victory to incumbent Yoweri Museveni. “We want the poll cancelled and repeated,” said George Musisi, lawyer for Wine’s National Unity Platform (NUP). Wine, 38, a pop star …