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The trouble began when school authorities denied the learners permission to watch a football match between Manchester United and Manchester City,(Photo by YASUYOSHI CHIBA / AFP) (Photo by YASUYOSHI CHIBA/AFP via Getty Images)

Ugandan soldiers shoot learner while quelling riot

The trouble began when school authorities denied the learners permission to watch a football match between Manchester United and Manchester City

Crunchy: Fried nsenene or bush crickets are a protein-rich delicacy but this year they are scarce. Photo: Michele Sibiloni/AFP/Getty Images

Uganda’s tasty crickets are in short supply

They’re a sought-after seasonal delicacy, but deforestation and a growing export market are leaving Ugandans with too little to crunch on

Rhythms of resistance: Ali Bukeri, stage name Nubian Li, with Ugandan opposition politician and musician Bobi Wine.

Bobi Wine collaborator Nubian Li recounts his prison ordeal

Bobi Wine and Nubian Li have made a lot of music together. And when Bobi Wine transformed himself into the leader of Uganda’s political opposition, Nubian Li stayed by his side.…

A protester is arrested by police officers as Stella Nyanzi (not visible), a prominent Ugandan activist and government critic, organised a protest for more food distribution by the government to people who has been financially struggling by the nationwide lockdown imposed to curb the spread of the Covid-19 coronavirus in Kampala, on May 18, 2020. (Photo by Sumy Sadurni/AFP)

Uganda’s return to the dark days of Idi Amin

Hundreds of opposition supporters have disappeared in the last few months, allegedly detained or abducted by Uganda’s security forces

The dichotomy of Dominic Ongwen

The brutality meted out to the infamous Ugandan warlord was almost as horrifying as that delivered by him

Ugandan soldiers patrol near the street leading to the house of Bobi Wine, in Magere, Kampala, on Sunday. (Yauyoshi Chiba/AFP)

Uganda: ‘I have never seen this much tear-gas in an election’

Counting was slow across Uganda as a result of the internet shutdown, which affected some of the biometric machines used to validate voter registrations.

Bobi Wine, musician, singer and politician, and strong opponent of Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni.
(Photo: Damien Grenon)
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What would a Wine win look like?

Ugandans’ choice at the polls was more about stemming a sixth term for the Museveni regime than about actual policy

During the coup, Obote dispatched one of his most trusted lieutenants, a young Idi Amin, to ransack Mengo Palace, the royal compound in Kampala. Among the items seized were the Kabaka’s collection of luxury vehicles, including four Rolls-Royces. (Image: Nicholas Bamulanzeki)

The return of Uganda’s royal Rolls Royce

The Kabaka of Buganda’s fleet of Rolls-Royces was seized in a coup nearly 60 years ago. Now his successor has brought the only known ‘survivor’ home

As Ugandans prepare to go to the polls in January 2021, the involvement of security forces in the electoral process is a given and political reform seems a long way off

‘He ain’t heavy, he’s a policeman and he’s paying . . .’

The story behind Ugandan photojournalist Nicholas Bamulanzeki’s iconic picture of the policeman in the floods

Shifting times: Vendor Kamulegeya Charles has been able to raise a family on the income he earned selling newspapers, but now the number he sells is declining. (Kelvin Kavuma)

25 years of selling newspapers

From a street corner in Kampala, a newspaper vendor has observed an industry in decline — quickened by the coronavirus pandemic