Politics & Policy

Politics & Policy

Cecilia Atim Ogwal: a fearless politician who spoke her mind and challenged convention

Cecilia Ogwal was a trailblazer, known for her strength and charisma as an opposition leader, and a staunch defender of multipartyism, democracy, and human rights
The late Cecilia Atim Ogwal speaking at an FDC event in Wakiso, November 2023. One of Uganda’s longest-serving female legislators, she passed away on 18 January 2024 at the age of 77. Ms Ogwal was a trailblazer, known for her strength, charisma, and leadership in the opposition. She was a staunch defender of multipartyism, democracy, and human rights. Known for her toughness, she fearlessly stood up to male leaders in the ruling party and her own party, earning her the nickname 'iron lady' in Uganda.
Politics & Policy

Bobi Wine’s 2021 bid highlights youth vote challenge—and Museveni’s mastery

Despite widespread “youth wave” optimism, the NRM employed diverse, embedded strategies and tactics to obstruct Bobi Wine’s efforts to build a national youth constituency
Bobi Wine, standing in a car, surrounded by hundreds of supporters in Lira town, 7 September 2023, while on a countrywide tour.
Politics & Policy

South Africa’s genocide case against Israel: what to expect from the International Court of Justice

Three cases alleging violations of the Genocide Convention have been brought before the ICJ, the first in 1993; of these, the ICJ has only issued a final judgment in one case, 14 years after it was initiated
Naledi Mandisa Pandor, South Africa's foreign affairs ministers as of January 2024
OpinionPolitics & Policy

Africa needs a surge in entrepreneurship

Limited access to finance has been cited as a binding constraint on African economic development, but what if the chronic shortage of entrepreneurs is equally limiting?
An overhead view of Kikuubo, Kampala's busiest market
Politics & Policy

US response to Uganda’s anti-gay law and persistent human rights violations

US government, at the direction of President Biden, published an account of all the actions it has taken in response to the Anti-Homosexuality Act and other human rights concerns
Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel hosts an honour guard to welcome Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni to the Pentagon for a meeting 27 September 2013
Politics & Policy

US sanctions prison chief over human rights abuses

Johnson Byabashaija heads an organisation that has tortured government critics and LGBTQI+ people
Johnson Byabashaija, the commissioner general of prisons. The US has imposed financial sanctions on Johnson Byabashaija, the commissioner general of prisons, in a review and expansion of its visa restriction policy targeting Ugandan officials it says are complicit in human rights abuses.
Politics & Policy

Setting aside regional rivalries would go a long way to neutering the ADF

ADF's recent attacks highlight how regional rivalries in the Congo-Uganda-Rwanda borderlands provide the group with oxygen to survive and grow
Ugandan soldiers serving with the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), listens while Contingent Commander for Uganda, Brigadier Paul Lokech (not seen) briefs members of 09 Battalion before an advance on the town of Afgoye to the west of the Somali capital Mogadishu. AMISOM and Somali National Army (SNA) troops swept through Afgoye on the morning of the 25th May 2012 without a shot being fired, liberating the area and its population - including 400,000 internally displaced people - from the control of the Al-Qaeda-affiliated extremist group Al Shabaab.
East African CommunityOpinionPolitics & Policy

DRC elections: three factors that have shaped Tshisekedi’s rocky first term

While Tshisekedi can claim some successes, including the DRC's accession to the EAC and modest economic growth, much remains to be done to improve the lives of Congo's people
Felix Tshisekedi, president of the Democratic Republic of Congo, speaks at the naming and inauguration of the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture Research Station in Bukavu, DRC, 8 October 2019.
Politics & Policy

US announces visa restrictions in latest anti-gay law sanctions

US to deny visas to officials responsible for anti-gay law and policies that oppress other vulnerable groups
US Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken delivers a speech on US foreign policy at the US Department of State in Washington, D.C., on March 3, 2021.
Digital EconomyInfrastructurePolitics & PolicyTechnology sector

Uganda seeks $146mn Chinese loan for national fibre-optic project

China also funded the first three phases of the national fibre-optic backbone infrastructure project
Servers in a data centre
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