Parliament has adopted a motion urging the government to recognise sickle cell disease as a major public health concern requiring urgent budgetary attention.The motion, moved by Asuman Basalirwa, ...

What makes the situation with Parliament the more disheartening is that this is the institution supposed to lead the line in defending the public interest, in raising issues of national importance and ...

President Museveni has urged leaders of the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) to focus on addressing local community challenges and exposing corruption, rather than spending excessive time ...

If you want to know the true condition of a nation, do not begin with the laws written in its statutes. Look instead at the confidence citizens place in the institutions meant to enforce them. Laws ...

Senegal’s parliament has approved a bill that toughens punishment for homosexuality in the largely conservative West African nation. The proposed law was introduced to parliament last month by ...

"Violence and fear" will spike and "equality and non-discrimination" will be trampled on, warn critics.

On Dec. 10, 2025, Uganda entered into one of the most consequential health partnerships in its recent history. At the Ministry of Finance headquarters in Kampala, senior officials from Uganda and the ...

The new law, which must still be signed by President Bassirou Diomaye Faye, passed by an overwhelming majority and makes same-sex relations punishable by up to 10 years in prison, amid a crackdown on ...

The PM calls three by-elections.

Inspired by village women’s solidarity, she built a life confronting injustice, patriarchy and political repression.

International Women’s Day (IWD), celebrated globally, celebrates the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. It’s a day that also marks a call to action for accelerating gender ...