Uganda’s 2026 presidential race kicked off on September 29, 2025, like a motorcycle with no brakes. Eight candidates are gunning for the top job, promising everything from stars to your missing chicken. But hold your bananas! Some promises sound like the mutterings of that village drunkard at a funeral! First up, NUP president Robert Kyagulanyi,…
Over the past week, Ibrahim Ssemujju Nganda, the MP for Kira Municipality, has shaken delicate political tables. In short, he has called upon Uganda’s opposition parties to choose better, smarter candidates for Parliament in the 2026 elections. “We need MPs who can read budgets, understand laws, and argue well, not people who are good at…
By Leonard Egesa There is a great deal of mocking and disparaging commentary on social and traditional media channels that has been given to the narrative that the National Unity Platform (NUP) made a big mistake in denying the outgoing Busiro East MP, Medard Lubega Sseggona, a ticket to defend his seat in the coming…
A section of Busiro East residents have publicly rejected the National Unity Platform’s (NUP) decision to award the 2026 parliamentary ticket to Mathias Walukagga instead of their preferred candidate, Medard Lubega Sseggona. The constituents, drawn from areas such as Mende Sub-County, Wakiso Town Council, Mumyuka, and Kyengera Town Council, expressed their discontent during a consultation…
My name is Simon Mwebesa, and at 26, I should be out there building bridges or drawing plans for the roads that wind through Kampala’s busy hills. Instead, I am staring at the same cracked wall in my small rented room in Kawempe, wondering if today I will finally eat something better than Kikomando. It…
The incumbent, Yoweri Kaguta Museveni of the NRM will start his 2026 re-election campaign in Makindye division while Robert Kyagulanyi of the National Unity Platform (NUP) will head to Jinja on September 29. It is the first time since 1996 that Museveni has not started in Luweero district, which the NRM has symbolically regarded as…
Robert Kyagulanyi, the president of the National Unity Platform (NUP), yesterday said Norbert Mao, the minister of Justice and DP president, had betrayed the struggle for democracy and good governance. Addressing supporters ahead of his presidential nomination by the Electoral Commission on September 23, Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine expressed dismay at Mao’s recent remarks dismissing…
The National Unity Platform (NUP) launched its fundraising drive earlier this year to support its campaign efforts for the 2026 general elections in Uganda. However, concerns persist among analysts and party insiders about whether these funds will be used effectively to achieve their intended objectives. Notable contributions have already been made, with leaders like Shamim…
As Uganda gears up for the 2026 general elections, political aspirants have startedrolling out posters and banners across the country. Go to any town or village in Uganda. All the electricity poles, walls and doors of shops, schools, fences are plastered with posters of aspirants vying for various positions during the 2026 elections. Some aspirants…
Marinos Alexandria, the 31-year-old supporter of the National Unity Platform (NUP) who was abducted from Mbuya in 2022 for playing Bobi Wine’s music is dead. Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine, the president of NUP, said Alexandria had succumbed to the lingering effects of torture and trauma inflicted upon her three years earlier while in detention….
Katikkiro Charles Peter Mayiga is a very selective fellow, those who have worked with him say. Whether it is the pair of shoes, the tie, the suit, or the food he eats, Mayiga will take his time before making a decision. So we take it that the people or institutions he chooses to follow on…
At a social function in Busiro East over the weekend, Medard Lubega Sseggona, the constituency’s outspoken MP, sent ripples through Uganda’s political landscape. Addressing a cheering crowd, he declared: “The next president of NUP will come from Busiro East. And it will be me.” The statement positioned Sseggona as the heir apparent to Robert Kyagulanyi,…
By Kungu Al-mahadi Adam Uganda’s political landscape is a battleground where opposition forces face an uphill struggle against President Museveni’s entrenched regime. In this high-stakes environment, unity among opposition leaders is not just strategic—it’s existential. Yet, the escalating feud between Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine, the charismatic leader of the National Unity Platform (NUP), and…
The absence of John Baptist Nambeshe, the National Unity Platform (NUP) deputy president for Eastern Uganda, at the party’s mobilization activities in the subregion yesterday, has raised eyebrows amidst rumours that he is on the verge of rejoining the NRM. Robert Kyagulanyi, the NUP president, met with party leaders, mobilizers, and supporters from the 40…
Let me begin off by telling you about what I’m reading. I should have been done with this book by now but I had to slow down and start taking notes. Savour it like I do a Café Javas Black Current cake on Sunday morning after church. There is another reason. I could not speed…
The discussions to have Robert Kyagulanyi, the National Unity Platform (NUP) president, appear on NBS TV’s flagship talk show, Barometer, had several twists and turns. Multiple sources knowledgeable about the discussions told Bbeg Media on condition of anonymity that the negotiations were tense, and neither side wanted to cede any of its positions. At one…
Angola has denied entry to several senior African political figures set to attend a conference hosted by the country’s main opposition party, UNITA. UNITA said it had invited the politicians, including Tanzanian opposition leader Tundu Lissu, National Unity Platform’s Robert Kyagalunyi aka Bobi Wine from Uganda, and Mozambique’s Venancio Mondlane. Botswana’s former President Ian Khama,…
