Thirty one years since General Yoweri Museveni’s National Resisitance Army marched into Kampala and brought an end to over a decade of chaos, Uganda has stabilised into one of the most powerful countries in East Africa and Horn of the continent. Still, one of the world’s youngest populations is faced with major challenges. The Elephant examines some of them.
How did popular music become the battlefield of Uganda's future? And what are the consequences?
America must make the choice to side with the majority of Ugandans who would like to see democracy take root in Uganda.
1500 – 1852 – Bunyoro Kitara Kingdom: Bito dynasties of Buganda, Bunyoro and Ankole founded by Nilotic-speaking immigrants from the current southeastern Sudan. Expansion of...
We need to be clear: what Ugandans have had was never “peace”, but simply security for the Empire’s interests. And without real peace, even that security...
On 18 November, the insecurities of the past welled up in a bloody bout of peacetime carnage in Kampala – a massacre ignited by fear of...
The patterns of state violence in Uganda are sadly repetitive as the ruling party obstructs burgeoning criticism to President Yoweri Museveni’s decades-long grip on power.
There remains in Kampala today that most heinous of colonial pandemics – amnesia. You have to dig very deep to know what colonialism meant here. Otherwise,...
Science-based containment strategies, including nationwide surveys, significantly reduced COVID-19-related infections and fatalities in Uganda and Rwanda. In contrast, the Kenyan government turned the public health crisis...
The lockdown in Entebbe brings back memories of another lockdown in a boarding school in Teso, where, in the midst of a raging war and looming...
Following the abduction and torture of Member of Parliament Hon. Francis Zaake, the Uganda Police and the Criminal Investigations Department staged a sham investigation with the...
The coronavirus pandemic will end but without strong public services, Uganda will remain vulnerable to the next epidemic, pandemic or extreme climate event. The health, water...
