Museveni lifts ban on Democratic Governance Facility.

Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 1814 EAT on Thursday 23rd June 2022. President Yoweri Museveni has agreed to lift a ban he imposed on Democratic Governance Facility (DGF), a civil society funding body, whose activities were suspended last year.  In a press statement issued by the Presidential Press Unit (PPU), Museveni lifted the ban…

Malawi President strips VP’s power, fires police boss after corruption allegations.

Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 0824 EAT on Thursday 23rd June 2022. Vice President Saulos Chilima Malawi President Lazarus Chakwera has suspended the powers of Vice President Saulos Chilima after the country’s Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) accused Chilima of accepting kickbacks in return for government contracts.The bureau’s findings come a month after Britain’s National Crime…

Body organ testing: Labour exporters reject Sudhir’s hospital.

Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 0100 EAT on Thursday 23rd June 2022. Labour export firms have rejected a directive by the ministry of Internal Affairs to conduct body organ examinations for all migrant workers at the Bukoto-based UMC Victoria hospital which belongs to businessman Sudhir Rupaleria. On May 27, 2022, Internal Affairs minister, Maj…

Kakwenza petitions Human Rights Commission over children’s passport.

Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 0049 EAT on Thursday 23rd June 2022. Exiled novelist Kakwenza Rukirabashaija has petitioned the Uganda Human Rights Commission (UHRC) accusing the passport office of violating the rights of his children to own a passport.  In his June 20, 2022 petition filed by counsel Eron Kiiza, Kakwenza says that his…

Nabadda to officiate at 2022 Women Africa Cup of Nations

By Faith Barbara Namagembe updated at 1230 EAT on 18 June 2022. Uganda Centre referee Shamirah Nabadda will officiate at the forthcoming TotalEnergies Women Africa Cup of Nations in Morocco. Nabadda is one of the 16 centre referees appointed by CAF to officiate at the biennal Championship that will take place between 2nd -23rd July…

Russia Ukraine latest: UN says civilian casualties exceed 10,000.

The dead include hundreds of children killed mostly in intense shelling, missile and air strikes. Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 1220 EAT on Saturday 18th june 2022. Russian President Vladimir Putin has told an event in St Petersburg that the country has weathered economics sanctions  imposed as a result of the invasion of Ukraine. The…