Landmark ICC judgment met with mixed reactions by former victims of the Lord’s Resistance ArmyA former militia leader and child soldier from Uganda Read More
Feb 04, 2021
Uganda
Feb 03, 2021
ICC ready to rule on ex-child soldier accused of war crimes
Dominic Ongwen was abducted by Uganda’s Lord’s Resistance Army aged 10 before rising to high rankA former militia leader from Uganda may become the Read More
Feb 03, 2021
ICC ready to rule on ex-child soldier accused of war crimes
Dominic Ongwen was abducted by Uganda’s Lord’s Resistance Army aged 10 before rising to high rankA former militia leader from Uganda may become the Read More
Dec 24, 2020
Uganda charges leading lawyer for LGBT rights with money laundering
Human rights organisation says allegations that Nicholas Opiyo withdrew over $300,000 in funds are ‘frivolous’ and ‘fabricated’Nicholas Opiyo, one of Read More
Sep 28, 2020
Woman wins UK legal fight over unlawful deportation to Uganda
Court of appeal dismisses Home Office’s case against lesbian asylum seeker known as PN The Home Office has lost a case in the court of appeal against Read More
Mar 29, 2020
We Ugandans are used to lockdowns and poor healthcare. But we’re terrified
Coronavirus has given President Yoweri Museveni an opportunity to further clamp down on freedoms In Uganda, for the first time since 2013, more than Read More
Mar 06, 2020
Mary Tandon obituary
My mother, Mary Tandon, who has died aged 82, undertook many roles as a lawyer, writer and campaigner. Her life was punctuated by flights from her Read More
Mar 06, 2020
Mary Tandon obituary
My mother, Mary Tandon, who has died aged 82, undertook many roles as a lawyer, writer and campaigner. Her life was punctuated by flights from her Read More
Jan 17, 2020
‘You can’t handcuff my spirit’: jailed writer wins freedom of expression prize
Stella Nyanzi, imprisoned in Uganda after writing poem about president’s mother’s vagina, lambasts regime’s ‘fear of writers’The Ugandan academic, Read More
Jul 08, 2019
A brutal warlord has been convicted – so why doesn’t it feel like a triumph? | Vava Tampa
Bosco Ntaganda killed, raped and enslaved Congolese people for years while living in plain sight. Does the world care so little?In 2015, the Read More
Aug 31, 2018
Protests in Kampala as pop star politician blocked from leaving Uganda
Outcry after authorities prevent Bobi Wine from going to US for ‘torture’ treatmentProtests have erupted in Uganda’s capital after police prevented a Read More
Aug 25, 2018
Uganda’s brutal treatment of MPs is enabled by global indifference | Robert Amsterdam
MPs including the Afropop musician Bobi Wine are allegedly being tortured by the Museveni regime. The Magnitsky Act can curb this shocking abuseIn a Read More