The Pearl of Africa

KAMPALA — Uganda’s security forces are once again under the spotlight. This follows sharp accusations from presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, who claims law enforcement agencies are selectively applying campaign…

UPDF officer defends corporal punishment on citizens in a remarkable new chapter of government spin. Acting Defence Public Information Officer Col. Chris Magezi, a UPDF officer, has defended corporal punishment…

Families in Atteridgeville, west of Pretoria, are struggling to come to terms with the horror that unfolded in the early hours of Sunday morning when twelve people were shot dead…

In December 1980, Yoweri Museveni—then a young politician and leader of the Uganda Patriotic Movement (UPM)—wrote an angry letter to the Electoral Commission. In it, he catalogued a chilling list…

By Staff Reporter Karl Bushby’s story reads like myth — except every step of it is true. What began as a casual bar bet in the late 1990s has turned…