By using our diplomats and assistance to impose even a small cost for the worst repression, we once helped protect and uplift ...

Uganda’s legal heart-beat pulsed with a single question: who truly holds power when justice seems to bend under pressure? From treason charges and election reversals to long-awaited murder confessions ...

In East Africa's Tanzania and Uganda, political tensions are rising as they prepare for the next elections. Tanzania goes to ...

Former presidential candidate Dr. Kizza Besigye and his aide Hajji Obeid Lutale have formally petitioned the Judicial Service ...

Eid al-Adha is a significant Islamic festival commemorating Prophet Ibrahim’s willingness to sacrifice his son in obedience ...

Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni has signed into law an amendment that will allow, once again, civilians to be tried in a ...

Human rights lawyer Eron Kiiza has petitioned the High court to release his passport, which was deposited as part of his bail ...

Rael Ombuor has been a reporter/researcher in The Post's Nairobi bureau since 2019. She has reported on human rights, the ...

Ugandan President, Yoweri Museveni, on Monday, signed a new law allowing civilians to be tried in military courts that critics said could be used against opposition leaders ahead of next year's ...

The wife of imprisoned Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye said Thursday he was being held under inhumane conditions and ...

In defiance of a supreme court ruling, Uganda’s parliament under the National Resistance Movement’s President Yoweri Museveni ...

I met Agather Atuhaire, a Ugandan human rights defender, in late May at the Oslo Freedom Forum, an event celebrating ...