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When Anita Annet Among adjourned Parliament sine die on May 5, few people around her believed they were watching the closing act of one of the most dramatic political rises in recent Ugandan history. The Speaker of Parliament appeared firmly in command. Inside the chamber, she had just steered through the controversial Protection of Sovereignty Bill, legislation that criminalises receiving …

James Bogere is rapidly emerging as one of Uganda’s brightest football prospects after helping AGF Aarhus win the Danish Superliga title and qualify for the UEFA Champions League qualifying rounds. The 18-year-old forward joined AGF in February 2026 from El Cambio Academy. Before moving to Denmark, Bogere had already built a reputation on the international stage, starring for Uganda at …

Platform Decay by Martha Wells (coming out May 5) is the 8th installment in a sci-fi series (Murderbot Diaries) about an enslaved android that gains its freedom and claims to hate humans, but it cannot stop saving them. Most Murderbot novels are standalone books, but you won’t appreciate the changes in the protagonist’s attitude and personality if you don’t know …

I saw that video on social media, of a content creator who found an owl in his kitchen and panicked. His enemies were after him. Someone was bewitching him. He paid boda boda guys to kill the poor owl. Ugandans! Life is too short and precious to be scared of every shadow. And the day you realise that indeed, as …

At least five journalists have been recognised for outstanding reporting on Uganda’s coffee sector. Uganda remains Africa’s leading coffee exporter and one of the world’s top producers of Robusta, with export earnings surpassing $2.4 billion by late 2025. The sector supports about 1.7 million households and has registered steady growth, driven by improved farming practices and a gradual shift towards …

Unlike ComicCon, which is geared towards fans, CinemaCon targets cinemas. Studios use the annual 4-day gathering to showcase their upcoming movie slates. The content that brings customers to the cinema comes from Hollywood. The better the movies, the more traffic cinemas can expect, the more money they will make. As such, studios use CinemaCon to reveal footage and trailers for …

Every nation ultimately reveals its true priorities in the way it treats those who build it. It is not in speeches, commemorative parades, or economic reports filled with ambitious projections and comforting statistics that a nation’s true values are found, but in the quiet spaces where its people work; behind office desks, on construction sites, in courtrooms, factories, farms, hospitals, …

Buganda Road Primary School pupils crossing the road at a Zebra Crossing. Photo credit: KCCA Nation-building is like construction. Different leaders play different roles. Some break ground. Others raise the walls. Others will one day roof. Yet history often praises the finished building. It forgets the hands that dug the foundation. The real story begins long before the finishing mouldings …

Parliament has become the latest battleground in a widening national argument over power, money and the meaning of sovereignty. At the centre of the storm is the Protection of Sovereignty Bill, 2026, a proposed law the government says is necessary to shield Uganda from undue foreign influence. Critics, however, see something far more consequential: legislation that could redraw the relationship …