Today, President Yoweri Museveni, 81, was sworn in for a seventh term in office, extending a rule that began in 1986 and now stretches toward four decades, cementing his place among Africa’s longest-serving leaders. The inauguration ceremony in Kampala, attended by regional leaders, military officials, diplomats, and ruling party supporters, featured elaborate state pageantry, military displays, and renewed promises of stability and economic transformation under Museveni’s le

Opinion: Uganda’s Protection of Sovereignty Bill 2026 is framed as a defence of national autonomy. In a post-colonial state, that instinct is understandable. But as constitutional lawyer Phillip Karugaba argued in his submission to Parliament on Friday, April 24, 2026, the Bill does something far more consequential: it reconfigures sovereignty itself, away from the people and toward the state. Article 1 of the Constitution is unambiguous: power belongs to the people, who exer

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court of the United States has issued a sweeping 6–3 decision that significantly narrows the scope of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, a cornerstone provision long used to challenge racially discriminatory voting practices. In a 6–3 decision, the court’s conservative majority concluded that Louisiana’s congressional map, specifically the district represented by Democratic Rep. Cleo Fields, placed excessive emphasis on race in its design. Wr