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Guinea’s main opposition leader said “direct resistance” to the country’s coup leader-turned-president was now the only way to ​bring about change after the government consolidated its position by dissolving ‌40 political parties. President Mamady Doumbouya, a former special forces commander, seized power in 2021 and won a seven-year term as president in December in a result contested by his ​opponents. Legislative elections …

Hundreds of supporters of detained Ugandan opposition figure Kizza Besigye held a defiant prayer service inside a Catholic cathedral on Monday, pressing authorities to free him after more than a year without trial on treason charges, as concerns mount over his failing health. The service at Lubaga Cathedral in Kampala was meant to be a holy mass presided over by …

Opposition leader and National Unity Platform (NUP) presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, popularly known as Bobi Wine, has said that security forces deployed at his home in Magere are guarding an empty house after his wife and children fled the country for safety. Speaking at the Geneva Human Rights Conference, Bobi Wine said the heavy security presence at his residence …

The People’s Front for Freedom has called for an independent audit of Uganda’s 2026 general elections. They accuse the Electoral Commission (EC), the military and state security agencies of presiding over what it described as an “industrial-scale electoral failure” characterised by violence, abductions and systemic fraud. Addressing journalists at the party’s headquarters on Katonga Road on Monday, PFF president Erias …

Kansiime Boaz Matiita Rukungiri, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) party has ended a 40-year opposition hold on Rukungiri Municipality after its candidate, Boaz Kansiime Matita, was declared the duly elected mayor. According to the Rukungiri District Electoral Commission Returning Officer, Abbass Namara, Matita won the mayoral race after polling 5,759 votes, defeating Denis Ngabirano …

“All this is an effort to eliminate regime critics under the guise of ‘protecting the people’,” she said, adding that similar tactics had previously been deployed in Kasese, Kampala and Masaka. “Hon. Kivumbi isn’t a criminal. He is another target of the state’s dirty politics.” Kivumbi, the incumbent MP and vice president for Buganda of the National Unity Platform (NUP), …

By Kabuye Ronald The Democratic Front (DF) has rejected the recently concluded presidential and parliamentary election results announced by the Electoral Commission, citing widespread irregularities that it says undermined the credibility of the entire electoral process. Addressing the media at the party headquarters in Namirembe, Kampala City, DF President Rt. Hon. Mathias Mpuuga Nsamba accused the Electoral Commission of presiding …

By Jumah Kakomo and Kabuye Ronald Uganda’s President-Elect, General Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, has said his decisive 71 percent victory in the 2026 presidential election reflects a nationwide resurgence of the National Resistance Movement (NRM), while cautioning opposition actors against what he described as subversive and violent schemes. In his first national address since being declared President-Elect by the Independent Electoral …

KAMPALA, UGANDA — As vote counting continues following Thursday’s general elections, opposition candidates are reported to be leading in multiple key constituencies across Uganda, even as the electoral process was marred by a nationwide Internet shutdown and widespread failure of Biometric Voter Verification Kits (BVVKs). Preliminary results collated from independent observers, candidate agents, and local media suggest a strong showing …

Ugandan security forces have surrounded the residence of President Kyagulanyi Ssentamu Robert, widely known as Bobi Wine, in what opposition figures and rights advocates describe as a de facto house arrest. According to accounts from the National Unity Platform (NUP) and witnesses at the scene, heavily armed military and police officers sealed off the perimeter of Kyagulanyi’s home, restricting all …