On September 22, 1995, members of the Constituent Assembly (CA) came up with a preamble in the Constitution as one of the reminders of the dark past committed under the previous constitutions that ...

Constitution-making is often seen as central to forging political settlements in fragile states. Yet, as a 2023 study by the Edinburgh Centre for Constitutional Law shows, such processes frequently ...

In August, I wrote an article in Daily Monitor titled, 'With term limits, age limit would be irrelevant.' Term limits act as a safety value for taming the insatiable appetite for power for African ...

Over the past three decades, Uganda’s electoral calendar has followed a predictable ...

20 . (1) Fundamental rights and freedoms of the individual are inherent and not granted by the State. (2) The rights and freedoms of the individual and groups enshrined in this Chapter shall be ...

What you need to know: The practice of taking an oath dates back in centuries to ancient kingdoms and monarchies where subjects publicly pledged loyalty to kings and rulers. Yesterday marked the ...

The Deputy Speaker, Thomas Tayebwa has made a call to government and civil society to increase public education on the Constitution. Tayebwa made this call whole commissioning the virtual museum of ...

President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda has engineered constitutional changes that could see him rule for life. Daniel Irungu/EPA-EFE For a period of time between 1986 and the early 2000s Uganda was ...