Ugandan officials said the jailed opposition leader, Kizza Besigye, will stay locked up until his treason trial finishes. This came from a government press event in Rukungiri District, Besigye's hometown, where people have been complaining about his treatment. The Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Thomas Tayebwa, spoke for President Yoweri Museveni. He was joined by the Security Minister Jim Muhwezi and the ICT Minister Chris Baryomunsi.
Tayebwa claimed the state is ready with its evidence, but the trial keeps getting slowed down by the defense. He argued that Besigye and his co-accused, Obeid Lutale, have themselves delayed things by sometimes not appearing in court. Letting them out before a verdict, Tayebwa suggested, would make the...
This just got spicy. A guy named Lawrence Ampe, freshly fired from the Uganda Prisons Service, announced he is immediately joining the campaign of opposition figure Bobi Wine. The presidential candidate, whose real name is Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, has been doing rallies in the Teso area. Ampe said he would show up at an event in Ngora District to stump for him, telling people online to vote for leaders who care about development.
Ampe got the boot after he publicly backed Bobi Wine and started criticizing higher-ups. He accused prison officials of corruption and abusing both rights and junior officers. He framed his dismissal as part of a bigger fight for national liberation, saying people should push for change even when it costs...
A prison officer in Uganda got fired for backing the wrong politician online. Lawrence Ampe, an officer with the Uganda Prisons Service, was dismissed after he posted support for opposition leader Bobi Wine, whose real name is Robert Kyagulanyi, on TikTok and X. Ampe used those posts to accuse senior officials of corruption and abusing lower-ranking staff.
He is not sorry about it either. After his dismissal, he posted a statement calling it part of a fight for national liberation, telling people to stay focused on change even when it costs them personally. Photos showed his stuff packed on a motorcycle taxi as he left his post. The official reason is clear: uniformed service members are banned from partisan politics and must stay...
Uganda's official number plate maker, and a company named Spiro, just threw a little party for a random motorcycle taxi owner in Kampala. The guy got the two hundred thousand and twenty-sixth new plate. They gave him some branded freebies at the Spiro Bond Site. The Intelligent Transport Monitoring System, or ITMS, says they expect to hit three hundred thousand new plates by year's end, which they claim shows people trust the new system more.
The boda rider himself said he liked the faster service and felt more secure with the new plate. The head of Spiro Uganda, Bruce Mucunguzi, talked about working with the Ministry of Works and Transport and the Motor Vehicle Registration office to make the process quicker and more transparent, even...
The UN Security Council just voted to keep its peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo running for another full year. They renewed the mandate for MONUSCO, which will stay active with its current force size of over eleven thousand military staff and hundreds of police. This happens while fighting gets worse in the east, mostly because of offensives by the M23 rebel group.
The resolution specifically calls out the M23's recent capture of the city of Uvira in South Kivu, calling it a major regional risk. It also directly accuses the Rwanda Defence Forces of supporting and even joining the rebel offensive. The mission's special combat unit, the Force Intervention Brigade, got renewed on what the council called an...
The president of Namibia, Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, has taken fewer trips abroad than her recent predecessors. In her first ten months as head of state, she made twenty-eight international journeys, visiting ten countries and spending about twenty-eight days outside Namibia. This travel qualified her for roughly one point three million Namibian dollars in subsistence allowances. Her spokesperson, Jonas Mbambo, stated she chose to focus on domestic issues first, often sending her vice president or cabinet ministers like Selma Ashipala-Musavyi to events instead.
Analysts have mixed views on the costs and benefits. One expert, Henning Melber, noted that the reduced travel saves money on allowances and presidential aircraft operation. He...
This is some primo conflict of interest drama. The director of Namibia's Roads Contractor Company, Rhys Mbala, got his own private engineering firm, Trinitas Consulting Engineers, picked for a government road job. His lawyers are now saying he had no clue about project changes when his company won the deal. They sent a letter to a newspaper contesting an earlier report.
The legal team from Shipindo & Associates Inc claims the whole bidding process was clean. They say the Works Ministry put out public ads for road projects back in July. Trinitas sent in its proposal then. The project itself, a gravel road in the Kavango West region, got switched up later. The local council asked to change it from a school access road to one for the...
Alright, the Namibian government just dropped five million bucks on glow-in-the-dark gear for farm animals. No joke. The Works and Transport Ministry, led by Minister Veikko Nekundi, bought a bunch of reflective ear tags and collars. The goal is to cut down on car crashes at night involving loose livestock wandering onto roads. The National Road Safety Council's acting boss, Ambrosius Tierspoor, confirmed they ordered around ten thousand of each item for a test run.
They are starting this wild project in three specific regions: Omusati, Oshana, and Khomas. Officials picked those areas because data shows over two thousand accidents with domestic animals there in the last five years. The launch event is happening at Embumba village in...
Man, the vibe at that Blantyre Press Club meeting was basically a giant side-hustle pep talk mixed with some government scolding. A journo turned businessman, Geoffrey Banda, told the room straight up that depending on just a media paycheck is a dead end now. He said after working for regular outlets, he started his own printing company, Choice Communication Solutions, and it changed everything for him financially. His whole point was that reporters need to find legit business gigs on top of their work to actually get ahead and be independent.
The Information Minister, Shadric Namalomba, was also there, laying down some homework. He told journalists they need to actually learn the details of big national plans like the Malawi 2063...
