The transnational security and surveillance doctrine adopted by authoritarian states in the East African bloc has gutted civil liberties, the rule of law and democracy in the region. These cross-border ...
The social appropriation of spyware in Uganda is best framed through the lens of mobile communications. This, perhaps, explains why, between 2023 and 2024, the Uganda Communications Commission (UCC), which ...
The reign of terror under Idi Amin left thousands of Ugandans killed in a methodical and capricious manner led by his notorious intelligence outfits—the State Research Bureau (SRB) and the ...
It was during Father’s Day of 2016 when Tom Voltaire Okwalinga shared a moment with his Facebook audience that felt very raw. There was an innocence and a truthfulness to ...
That the right to privacy is joined at the hip with the concept of human dignity is a no-brainer. Human dignity, which centuries ago had a denotative and connotative meaning ...
On a clear day—and they are never in scant supply—there are panoramic views on this tree-speckled hill. In fact, tourists have settled into a routine of adding the Uganda National ...
In a 1789 letter to Jean-Baptiste Le Roy, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America, Benjamin Franklin, wrote of the new Constitution as, “now established, and ...
The spectre of enforced disappearances continues to haunt the East African region and specifically Uganda, as terror networks hiding in unmarked vehicles purr across neighbourhoods, hunting down regime opponents and ...
Heading down the home stretch of Uganda's 15 January 2026 presidential poll, the eight men intent on leading the East African nation for the next five years have moved up ...
