Path to LGBTQ+ decriminalisation takes courage, legal support

What’s the context? Personal courage and legal expertise needed to defend LGBTQ+ rights in increasingly hostile world - Human Dignity Trust founder. LONDON - As LGBTQ+ rights are rolled back globally and activists wage legal battles to...

Kenyan activists Bob Njagi, Nicholas Oyoo abducted in Uganda

Audio By Vocalize Two Kenyan activists, Bob Njagi and Nicholas Oyoo, were on Wednesday afternoon allegedly abducted by four armed men believed to be security officials. The two, who had joined National Unity Platform Presidential candidate Bobi...

Uganda Baati to showcase building solutions at UMA trade fair

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda Baati Limited (UBL) has confirmed its participation in the 31st Uganda International Trade Fair, which will run from October 2 to 12, 2025, at the UMA Show Grounds in Lugogo, it said in a news write-up...

President Museveni Pledges Wealth Creation, Education Reforms and Fisheries Boost

President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has today outlined the National Resistance Movement’s (NRM) achievements and future commitments in wealth creation, health, education, and fisheries as he held his first campaign rally in Lango Sub-region in...

October 3 Uganda Martyrs Bean

at Uganda Martyrs Catholic Church, 3rd & Choctaw in Okmulgee, on Friday, Oct. 3, from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. The meal will include a bountiful serving of ham n’ beans, coleslaw, cornbread and dessert for a donation of $10. Meals are dine-in or...

UN anti-AIDS leader tells off Ugandan homophobes trolling her son online

Winnie Byanyima tells ‘weak trolls and bots’: ‘Stay out of our family affairs.’ Winnie Byanyima with her son, Anselm Besigye. (Photo courtesy of Winnie Byanyima via X/Twitter) Online homophobes have launched a hate campaign against the son of...

CRS Brings Hope to World’s At-Risk Children

Archbishop Jeffrey S. Grob speaks at the 18th Annual Archbishop’s Reception for Catholic Relief Services, where tiny shoes adorn the cocktail tables as reminders of the at-risk children around the world who depend on CRS programs. (Submitted...

Ugandan schools grapple with gangs, drugs

Drug abuse and violent gangs among students in Mbale City are putting schools at risk, turning classrooms into places of conflict instead of learning. The trend has raised concern among parents, teachers, and local leaders about the future of...

Uganda: Government alarmed by rise in teen pregnancies

The government has raised concerns over the rising number of young girls giving birth before reaching the childbearing age. Mr Aggrey Kiyingi Kabenge, the permanent secretary of the Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development, said the issue...

Uganda: Senior two student arrested for kidnapping cousin's children in Mukono

Police in Mukono District are holding a Senior Two student of Panorama College for allegedly kidnapping two of his cousin’s children and demanding a ransom from their parents. According to Ms Marvis Iriko, the children’s mother, her cousin picked...

High education costs, cultural norms still block girls from school, experts warn

The Executive Director of Uwezo Uganda, Dr Gorreti Nakabugo, has said the high cost of education and harmful cultural practices remain huge barriers to girl-child education in Uganda and need urgent attention to reverse the situation. “Though...

Uganda’s January 2026 elections to pit Museveni’s dictatorship against the bourgeois populism of Bobi Wine

Uganda will hold presidential elections in January 2026, pitting the four-decade ruler Yoweri Museveni against his main opponent Robert Kyagulanyi, popularly known as Bobi Wine. Museveni, who has been in power since 1986, was formally nominated...

NYC’s Mayoral Mess: The Children Are In Control

If the pundits and politicians are right, New York City Mayor Eric Adams’s agonized and belated departure from the November 4 general election is unlikely to realign the now three-way contest that favors the avowed socialist and Islamic candidate...

Bobi Wine’s Revolutionary Train Campaign kicks off across Uganda: #FreeUgandaNow

KAMPALA-(MaraviPost)-The revolutionary train, led by Musician Bobi Wine, originally known as Kyagulani Ssentamu Robert, started its countrywide campaign on Monday, 29 September 2025, marking the beginning of an ambitious nationwide initiative....

Flush of glory! Uganda rolls out first WASH awards

On Friday night, the red carpet at Kampala’s Protea Hotel will look a little different. Instead of pop stars or movie idols, the spotlight will fall on engineers who have built boreholes in forgotten villages, youth who have mobilized neighbors to...

Clonkill woman appointed Irish ambassador to Uganda

Previous Next Published: Wed 1 Oct 2025, 9:16 AM Clonkill woman Margaret (Mags) Gaynor has been appointed Irish Ambassador to Uganda, and was recently received by, and officially presented her credentials to, President Yoweri Museveni at State...

Who are the people designing Uganda’s taxes?

We were discussing taxation recently and a friend asked me if there were any political economists inside the ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development, Bank of Uganda or Museveni’s inner circle. The question was specific: political...

Ugandan presidential candidate says that if wins, he will ban Swahili and make French the official language of the country

Uganda’s presidential candidate Mubarak vows to abolish Swahili if elected “We shall ban Swahili as our national language, we shall ban it, we need French instead.” Mubarak Munyagwa has vowed to abolish Swahili language if he clinches the top...

Uganda’s minerals boon moment?

Mkhululi Ncube, a Programme Officer at the Africa Minerals Development Centre (left) and Morris Tabaaro, the Inspector of Mines at the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development showcase the assessment report that analysed the governance...

Expunging the ghost of Innocent Ngobi Ndiko: An appraisal of the Constitutional Court’s decision on ‘no fault’ divorce in Uganda – Part 5

The previous four editions of this column identified four faces of the legal apparition which appeared in the majority decision of the Constitutional Court in Innocent Ngobi Ndiko and Others v Attorney General and Another (Constitutional Petition...