March 15

• Uganda: Has Sexual Minority Movement Failed? [opinion]

  Rather than continuing to operate on an exclusive basis, the LGBT movement in Uganda should strive to nurture a multivariate movement for social justice, creating a multi-normative... Read more »

March 11

• Congo-Kinshasa: Obama Official Gives Insights on U.S. Congo Policy [analysis]

  The US insists on greater attention and response to the crisis in the DRC. However, it appears that the Obama administration continues to operate on the notion that 'quiet... Read more »

February 15

• Uganda: How Bishop Niringiye's Anticorruption Crusade Landed Him in Captivity [analysis]

  The Ugandan government has been in the news recently over cases of grand corruption. There is a widely publicised campaign by civil society to clean up government. But what many... Read more »

December 7, 2012

• Uganda: How State Rights Body Has Failed Ugandans - The Case of Moses Mukisa [analysis]

  Vincent Nuwagaba challenges the Uganda Human Rights Commission on its abysmal failure to promote and protect human rights, let alone award compensation to victims. Read more »

December 3, 2012

• Uganda: Country's Human Rights Commission Is a Joke [opinion]

  The commission is mute in the face of egregious human rights violations perpetrated by the Museveni regime. The political leanings of its officials undermines their commitment to... Read more »

• Uganda: Human Rights Defenders and Land Ownership [analysis]

  Northern Uganda is rising from the debris of a long conflict involving the rebel Lord's Resistance Movement. Many challenges remain especially on land issues. But human rights... Read more »

• Uganda: Tragedy of the Commons

  It is not necessarily land scarcity, but rather improper land administration, abuse of power and systems that are key land conflict triggers in northern Uganda. Read more »

October 12, 2012

• Uganda: Celebration or Realisation? The Nation at 50 [analysis]

  Many Ugandans do not feel that there is much to celebrate in a country where politics is about self-enrichment through corruption. But there is a growing realisation of the need to... Read more »

• Uganda: Celebrations Are Okay, But What About the Future?

  Where the country will be in another 50 years depends on what Ugandans and their leaders begin to do now. No miracles are going to happen. Read more »

September 14, 2012

• Uganda: Mr President, Even if You are Tilling a Soft Soil You Must Retire [opinion]

  Even the one tilling a soft ground retires, says a popular Ugandan saying, but President Museveni insists that there is nobody to replace him. Read more »

July 27, 2012

• Uganda: The State, Private Sector and Market Failures - A Response to Prof Joseph Stiglitz

  'The challenge is not how the state can regulate the market, but how society can regulate both the state and the market.' Read more »

July 20, 2012

• Uganda: Internal Security Officer Named in Uganda Land Dispute [analysis]

  A senior official in Uganda's Internal Security Organization (ISO), Major Herbert Asiimwe Muramagi, has been named in a complex land dispute in oil-rich Hoima District where, some... Read more »

July 6, 2012

• Uganda: Uganda - Thugs Attack Villagers Who Say Their Land Was Stolen [analysis]

  Months after the central government tried to quell land speculation in oil-rich Bunyoro by suspending the issue of new land titles, 'Oil in Uganda' visited Kasenyi, on the north... Read more »

June 15, 2012

• Uganda: Complicit Neighbours - Rwanda, Uganda and East DRC [analysis]

  The troika of Rwanda, Uganda and the international community continue to get away with destablising the east of the DRC. Read more »

June 8, 2012

• Uganda: Uganda - The Wrong Transition? [opinion]

  Long before the ICC, or even Invisible Children, made Kony an Internet sensation, local activists were shouting themselves hoarse trying to get the world to understand the broader... Read more »

May 3, 2012

• East Africa: Somalia, Museveni and Militarising the Region [interview]

  'Everybody knows the solution in Somalia is political not military. Even if there is a military victory in Somalia, it will not be sustainable without a political solution.' Read more »

April 6, 2012

• Uganda: As a Citizen, I Demand Justice or Death [analysis]

  A personal account of human rights abuse in Uganda raises questions about the role of mainstream human rights organisations supported by international donors. Read more »

March 23, 2012

• Uganda: White Saviours, Black Victims - an Old Story [opinion]

  What is really disturbing about Invisible Children is, if a group of Africans had made the Kony2012 film would it have got the publicity from around the world? Would they have been... Read more »

• Africa: Kony2012 - Militarization and Disinformation Blowback [analysis]

  This Kony2012 video has reinforced my own conviction that demilitarization and peace in Africa is intricately connected to demilitarization and peace in the United States. Read more »

March 16, 2012

• Central Africa: Kony 2012 - Widening the Cracks, Letting the Light In? [opinion]

  Forget that the Kony 2012 video has flaws. Rather, bring on the help and catch Joseph Kony. Read more »

March 15, 2012

• Central Africa: The Downside of the Kony 2012 Video [analysis]

  A 30-minute documentary about Ugandan rebel leader Joseph Kony has been watched by tens of millions online. But will this mobilization of millions be subverted into yet another... Read more »

March 9, 2012

• Uganda: Acholi Face Second Genocide With U.S. Troops [opinion]

  In October 2011, President Obama sent 100 U.S. Special Operations Forces into Uganda's northern region to, he said, help the Ugandan Army protect the people by hunting down Joseph... Read more »

February 6, 2012

• Uganda: David Kato Award Goes to Jamaican Activist [document]

  The winner, who fled Jamaica a year ago following homophobic death threats, vows to continue with the struggle for LGBT rights in honour of the the fallen Ugandan activist. Read more »

January 20, 2012

• Uganda: Labour Unions a Threat to Workers' Rights [analysis]

  The unions have been turned into a de facto branch of the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) party. Bribery, pursuit of personal interest, co-option, intimidation and... Read more »

November 25, 2011

• Uganda: Is U.S. After Kony, or Oil? -

  Ugandans are unsure of the Obama administration's agenda in its military intervention in the hunt for rebel leader Joseph Kony. Why now, they ask. Jackee Budesta Batanda reports... Read more »