Yoweri Museveni

Soundtrack to a pandemic: Africa’s best coronavirus songs

Article Kwanele Sosibo & Simon Allison - 2 Apr 2020

Drawing on lessons from Ebola, African artists are using music to convey public health messaging. And they are doing it in style

Scandals embarrass Uganda’s Makerere University

Africa Bongekile Macupe - 29 Jan 2020

Graduation at the ‘Harvard of Africa’ nearly didn’t take place — because the university ran out of gowns

Tensions loom over the Great Lakes region

Africa Nelleke van de Walle - 27 Jan 2020

President Félix Tshisekedi should abandon plans to invite neighbouring militaries into the eastern DRC

I only have eyes for Bobi Wine

Africa Sam Broadway - 13 Jan 2020

Ever since Bobi Wine, Uganda’s biggest pop star, won his seat in parliament in a contested 2017 race, western journalists have...

Uganda police arrest pop-star MP Bobi Wine, teargas supporters

Africa Agency - 6 Jan 2020

Having already been detained a number of times, the singer who looks set to challenge President Museveni in the 2021 elections has been arrested

Bobi Wine, live in concert

Africa Simon Allison & Dhashen Moodley - 12 Dec 2019

This is the show that the Ugandan president, Yoweri Museveni, does not want you to see

New walls in cyberspace: Internet shutdowns and authoritarianism in Africa

Africa Jonathan Fisher - 18 Sep 2019

Cutting off communication has become a favourite ploy of some of the continent’s Big Men. Ironically, this harms their standing in the long term

Silencing the ‘rudest’ woman in Uganda

Africa Simon Allison - 8 Aug 2019

For academic Stella Nyanzi, obscenity — radical rudeness — is an act of rebellion against the repressive Museveni regime

Uganda’s popstar MP Bobi Wine to contest 2021 presidential vote

Africa Agency - 24 Jul 2019

Wine, 36, entered Parliament in 2017, and has emerged as a leading critic of President Museveni

In Uganda, posting a poem about Museveni gets you jailed

Article Bwesigye Bwa Mwesigire & Isaac Ssemakadde - 20 Jun 2019

The charge is "misusing a computer." Dr. Stella Nyanzi remains incarcerated to this day in Luzira Women’s Prison

Feud between Kagame, Museveni takes toll

Article Grace Matsiko - 15 May 2019

The distrust between the presidents has burst into the open in recent months, with the pair trading accusations of harmful nature against each other

It’s time for a reckoning for Kagame and his estern cheerleaders

Africa Timothy B Reid - 23 Apr 2019

As we commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide, we cannot keep excusing the crimes of Rwanda’s current government

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