LAGOS JUNE 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen opened fire at a car carrying a Ugandan government minister in an attempted assassination on Tuesday, wounding the former army commander and killing his daughter and driver, the military and local media said. Four attackers on motorcycles sprayed bullets at a four-wheel drive vehicle carrying General Katumba Wamala, the minister of…
LAGOS APRIL 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The United States says it is imposing visa restrictions on “those believed to be responsible for, or complicit in, undermining the democratic process in Uganda,“ including during the election in January and the campaign period. Secretary of State Antony Blinken in a statement said the Ugandan government’s actions “represent a continued downward…
LAGOS JANUARY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The European Union has joined a growing number of international voices calling for a probe into Ugandan election abuses and violence that left more than 40 people dead in the lead up to the polls. Opposition candidates were harassed by security forces, the media was suppressed by the government, and observers’ offices…
LAGOS JANUARY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine’s party will challenge President Yoweri Museveni’s election victory. Speaking in a news conference on Sunday (January 17), National Unity Party’s Maathias Mpuuga also condemned what it called the house arrest of Wine and his wife. “We have evidence of ballot stuffing and other forms of election malpractice…
LAGOS JANUARY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Wine, who is also known as Robert Kyagulanyi, showed Reuters around his compound, where several armed men were seen through a fence communicating via radios. “I thought I should inform the world that our lives are in danger and should anything happen to us, at least we have had the opportunity while…
LAGOS JANUARY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine on Friday claimed victory in a presidential election, rejecting early results which gave President Yoweri Museveni a wide lead as a “joke”. “I am very confident that we defeated the dictator by far. I call upon all Ugandans to reject the blackmail. We have certainly won the…