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By Mulengera Reporters Last December, President Museveni instructed his PPS Gloria Omaswa to ring a list of carefully-selected officials from the Foreign Affairs Ministry (MoFA) calling on them to attend a series of sensitive and diplomatically-consequential meetings at Entebbe State House.   The meetings involved some foreign heads of states and their respective dissidents. The big man from Rwakitura was …

Kampala, Uganda — The appointment of Ambassador Adonia Ayebare as Uganda’s new Minister of Foreign Affairs marks more than a routine cabinet reshuffle. For many within diplomatic and policy circles, it represents a significant institutional shift one that places a career foreign service officer, rather than a conventional partisan politician, at the helm of Uganda’s international engagement. At a time …

Viewers: 50,001 By Spy Uganda  How does a revolution lose its soul so quickly? How does a promise born from sacrifice, imprisonment, and popular resistance fracture almost overnight into the familiar tragedy that has haunted post-colonial Africa for decades? Across Senegal, a deep sense of anxiety has been building for months. Observers of African sovereignty watched carefully as tensions …

Viewers: 90,003 By Spy Uganda President Yoweri Museveni has praised Members of Parliament from the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) for passing the controversial Sovereignty Bill, describing the legislation as a necessary step in safeguarding Uganda’s independence and protecting the country from foreign interference. In a strongly worded statement issued on Thursday, the President defended the Bill as a …

At least 231 foreign nationals have been arrested by the Directorate of Citizenship and Immigration Control (DCIC) in a series of intelligence-led operations conducted in Kampala and Adjumani district this week. According to the ministry of Internal Affairs spokesperson, Simon Peter Mundeyi, the coordinated enforcement targeted individuals suspected of residing in Uganda illegally and engaging in unlawful activities. In Kampala, …

At the gracious invitation of his Turkish counterpart, H.E Hakan Fidan, the Honorable Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Uganda, Hon. Odongo Jeje Abubaker, has embarked on an official visit to Antalya, Türkiye, to participate in the 5th edition of the Antalya Diplomacy Forum (ADF2026), due to take place on 17 – 19 April 2026 at the NEST …

A shocking international tourism scandal unfolding on Mount Everest has sent tremors across the global travel industry—and raised uncomfortable questions about how safe and transparent tourism systems are in countries like Uganda. Investigations by the Nepal Police have uncovered a jaw-dropping $20 million (about UGX 75 billion) insurance fraud scheme where mountain guides allegedly drugged unsuspecting foreign climbers to fake …

A storm is brewing in Uganda’s diplomatic circles after a senior official deployed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to an Africa nation allegedly ran off with another man’s wife. RedPepper has learnt that the diplomat (names withheld for now) is accused by sources of volatile behaviour and a dark violence past, claims that have circulated for years in Kampala …

Some families have lost up to £10,000 after being duped into sending money to fraudsters’ bank accounts Foreign students attending independent schools in the UK are being targeted by fraudsters seeking to intercept their fee payments, according to new research. Some families have lost up to £10,000 after being duped into sending money to the bank account of a criminal, …

Trump expands Mexico City policy to “end woke foreign aid”  A 19-year-old woman talks with nurse Valeria Zafisoa at a traveling contraception clinic in eastern Madagascar run by the British nonprofit group MSI Reproductive Choices. That group lost $15 million in funding the last time Trump enforced the Mexico City policy. (Samantha Reinders photo courtesy of NPR) The Trump administration …