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The leaders accused the Kenya Kwanza administration of unleashing rogue police units and forming Haiti-style militia gangs to suppress dissent.
Kiiza says he needs urgent medical treatment abroad, specifically in Costa Rica, where he is scheduled to travel for recovery in early July.
Lema, a prominent figure in Tanzania’s CHADEMA party, was detained for more than four hours on Friday, June 6, at the Namanga border post before being...
Samia has come under fire in recent weeks following the arrest and levelling of treason charges against Lissu, as well as the detention of Kenyan acti...
Dr Besigye requested that the court halt proceedings until his lead counsel, Martha Karua, was present.
Mwangi was arrested on Monday, May 19, 2025, in Dar es Salaam, alongside Ugandan activist Agather Atuhaire after they flew to Tanzania to attend a cou...
Mudavadi said the reasons for Besigye’s presence in Kenya “were not quite clear.”
Tanzania’s Minister for Constitutional Affairs and Justice, Damas Ndumbaro said Karua, two others were deported to protect the integrity of the legal...
Karua said she had been held at the Julius Nyerere International Airport in Dar es Salaam since morning, with Tanzanian immigration officials withhold...
Golugwa had been due to represent his party in Brussels at a forum organised by the International Democracy Union, a grouping of centre-right parties...
NUP President Robert 'Bobi Wine' Kyaluganyi revealed that the party raised their concerns about gross human rights violations with the representatives...
The EU Parliament similarly asked member states to engage Tanzanian officials and keep an eye on Lissu's trial.
Mutwe's lawyer, Magellan Kazibwe, said his client had been produced in a chief magistrate's court in Masaka city, 140 km south of the capital Kampala...
Her remarks come amid heightened tension and speculation over a possible rift between Odinga and Siaya Governor James Orengo.
Lissu, who was the runner-up in the 2020 presidential election, was charged with treason last week after allegedly urging the public to rebel and disr...
Rights groups say President Kais Saied has had full control over the judiciary since he dissolved parliament in 2021 and began ruling by decree.
Lissu, runner-up in the country's 2020 presidential election, was charged with treason last week over what prosecutors said was a speech calling on th...
If successfully enacted, the new law could allow the government to take Besigye back to a military court martial.
CHADEMA failed to sign an election code of conduct document, making it ineligible to contest the presidential and parliamentary polls expected in Octo...
That uncompromising approach has seen Lissu, a former presidential candidate, detained numerous times and face charges such as sedition. Analysts say...
The decision, which was read out in court by registrar Ssalamu Ngoobi, highlighted the weight of the accusations and the broad scope of the investigat...
Justice Rosette Comfort Kania is expected to decide whether to release them, deny the request, or impose conditions for their temporary freedom.
Lissu has been holding rallies countrywide in recent weeks under the slogan "No Reforms, No Election" to call for reforms in the way the election will...
Osoro emphasised that ODM members have already been working informally within the government, and this agreement aims to formalise this arrangement.
"Yes. A long time ago I had a relationship with Museveni but it has no relevance now. It was a normal relationship with President Museveni," she said.
The magistrate ruled that the three be remanded at Luzira prison and declined a request for private medical attention, citing that the capital nature...
Concerns over Besigye’s well-being continue to grow, with his supporters calling for immediate medical intervention and his release.
"How can you be accused of serious crimes and, then, your response is a hunger strike to generate sympathy for getting bail? Why don't you demand a qu...
Byanyima learned it was considered a special prison for suspected terrorists.
