For many years, corruption has noticeably skyrocketed in various public institutions and offices in Uganda. According to a 2018 Transparency International report, Uganda is ranked the 149th least-corrupt country in the world despite claims of curbing the vice by the government. President Museveni announced a policy of zero-tolerance for corruption in 2006 but it has […]
Phil Wilmot’s Farewell Message as he steps aside as Solidarity Uganda’s Executive Director
Friends and comrades, The past decade building power with you has been the privilege of a lifetime. I remember the subversive conversations we had as university students, long before systematic political change even felt possible. With the years to follow — in the forests of Amuru, the mountains of Benet, the hills of Tooro, the […]
Urbanization destroys solidarity and the social fabric that holds traitors to account
This city belongs to its residents and not landowners. We will continue to support libraries and meeting and learning spaces that are made accessible to the poor. They are a beacon of socialist power amidst an increasingly exclusive and exploitative capitalist city management team bent on privatizing all spaces for the accumulation of wealth of […]
WOMEN IN THE ALBERTINE REGION UNITE AGAINST LAND GRABBING
The Albertine region is famous for the oil discovered in the region a couple of years ago. The Albertine region is made up of several districts that include Buliisa, Kasese, Masindi, Kanungu, Rukungiri, Hoima, Kagadi and Ntoroko. While the oil discovery would be a source of economic growth and development for the region, it hasn’t […]
Imprisoned Ugandan academic urges ‘no revolution without a feminist revolution’
Stella Nyanzi refuses to let Ugandan women be spectators in the struggle to end a 30-year dictatorship.