President Yoweri Museveni has praised MPs for passing the controversial Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) Amendment Bill, ...

Bill, 2025, by parliament has drawn sharp criticism from legal experts, opposition figures, and human rights defenders. The ...

There was going to be a serious problem because some people were saying if a soldier does commit a crime such as killing a ...

In Uganda, a crypto founder was taken hostage, held at gunpoint, and told to send crypto worth $500,000 to his attackers.

President Museveni hails Parliament for passing the UPDF AmendmentBbill, says clean politics and peace have transformed ...

Mitroplus Labs said its founder was forced to send crypto from multiple wallets by men impersonating military officers.

Senior counsel Martha Karua has joined the defence team for Ugandan opposition figure Kizza Besigye, just days after her ...

GULU, UGANDA | THE INDEPENDENT | The Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) has called on citizens to maintain calm, peace, ...

The lawyers said the other proposed clauses in the Act are okay, but only the provision of retrying civilians in military ...

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Ugandan lawmakers on Tuesday passed a government-backed bill to authorize civilian trials in military ...

Joint security teams comprising personnel from the Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF), Traffic Police, Field Force Unit, Counter-Terrorism Unit, and plainclothes operatives were deployed ...

Ugandan lawmakers passed a law that will allow military courts to try civilians, just three months after the supreme court ruled that such trials were illegal.