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

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

Winnie Byanyima says her organization has lost almost 50% of its funding, a gap that is undermining global efforts to combat ...

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

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

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

President Museveni signs law allowing military courts to judge civilians • Move follows Supreme Court ruling barring such trials as unconstitutional • Critics see the measure as undermining rule of ...

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has signed legislation that allows military tribunals to try civilians, parliament said on ...

President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda on Monday signed a controversial law that permits the trial of civilians in military ...

Ugandan opposition leader and four-time presidential candidate Kizza Besigye stands in the dock at the Makindye Martial Court ...

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 ...