The length of the boycott – now into its eighth week –has set a precedent. As the clock ticks, the speaker of parliament is threatening to expel opposition legislators. But legal and political experts ...

A legislative branch that will earn its stripes by being the ultimate brake on Executive authority is what many pine for ...

The United States on Thursday imposed sanctions on Uganda's parliamentary speaker, her husband and several other officials over corruption and serious abuses of human rights. Parliament Speaker Anita ...

Parliament has approved a supplementary budget totalling Shs 8.104 trillion, making it one of the largest supplementary ...

Parliament's leadership, including Speaker Anita Among, Minister for General Duties Kasule Lumumba and Leader of the Opposition Joel Ssenyonyi, has condemned what they describe as escalating brutality ...

In a bid to strengthen institutional capacity for legislation, oversight and representation, Parliament will start an e-Parliament project. This is contained in Parliament's Strategic Plan for the ...

The death of Uganda’s speaker of parliament, Jacob Oulanyah, has provoked a dilemma, given the law dictates it is the sitting speaker who must elect his/her successor. Who will replace him and how?

STORY: Uganda's parliament passed one of the world's strictest anti-LGBTQ bills on Tuesday (May 2). The new bill retained most of the harshest measures adopted in March, including long jail terms and ...

With over 389 MPs sitting in person, Parliament this afternoon passed the Anti-Homosexuality Bill. The votes for the passing of the Bill were more than the required 2/3rds, and though challenged by ...

The sweeping legislation would criminalize "the offence of homosexuality." LONDON -- In the days after Ugandan Parliament passed one of the world's harshest anti-LGBTQ bills, members of the country's ...

KAMPALA — Fistfights and chair-throwing broke out in Uganda's parliament on Tuesday ahead of a debate on whether to grant long-serving President Yoweri Museveni another term in office. The move to ...

Things in the U.S. Congress can get a little heated at times, but rarely do tensions escalate into physical violence. You have to go back more than a century to 1902 for the last incident of a ...