Uganda
2026
- GOVERNMENT
- presidential republic
- CONSTITUTION
- October 8, 1995; amended in 2005
- LEGAL SYSTEM
- in 1995 a common law and customary law system was reintroduced
- LEGISLATIVE SYSTEM
- unicameral, National Assembly
- JUDICIAL SYSTEM
- Court of Appeal and High Court
RELIGIONS
41.9% Catholics, 42% Protestants, 12.1% Muslims, other
From the country
- OCTOBER 13, 2001UgandaDEATH PENALTY
Acaitum Omanyikor Isyagi, during an hearing at the...
Acaitum Omanyikor Isyagi, during an hearing at the Constitutional Review Commission, proposed a change in the national flag, anthem, motto and the abolition of the death penalty
- OCTOBER 5, 2001UgandaDEATH PENALTY
The Ugandan government tabled in Parliament the Suppression...
The Ugandan government tabled in Parliament the Suppression of Terrorism Bill 2001 that seeks to impose a mandatory death sentence for terrorists and any person who aids, finances or supports terrorism
- SEPTEMBER 29, 2001UgandaDEATH PENALTY
The director of operations in the Uganda Prisons Service,...
The director of operations in the Uganda Prisons Service, Moses Kakungulu, proposed that the execution of convicts be privatised if the death penalty cannot be abolished
- SEPTEMBER 15, 2001UgandaDEATH PENALTY
The Ugandan government officially published the Suppression...
The Ugandan government officially published the Suppression of Terrorism Bill, which imposes a mandatory death penalty for terrorists and any person who aids, abets, finances or supports terrorism
- SEPTEMBER 12, 2001UgandaDEATH PENALTY
The former prime minister of the western Kingdom of...
The former prime minister of the western Kingdom of Toro, John Sanyu Katuramu, was sentenced to death by the High Court in Kampala for the murder of Toro's Prince Happy Kijanangoma, 'The New Vision' government-owned newspaper reported
- SEPTEMBER 11, 2001UgandaDEATH PENALTY
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni pardoned Abdallah...
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni pardoned Abdallah Nasur, a governor under former military ruler Idi Amin of the then Central Province
- SEPTEMBER 6, 2001UgandaDEATH PENALTY
The death penalty is not a punishment and should be...
The death penalty is not a punishment and should be scrapped from Uganda laws, the director of human resources at the Bank of Uganda, Magala Nyago, said
- AUGUST 31, 2001UgandaDEATH PENALTY
A Kampala lawyer, Gerald Kakuba of Kiboijana, and Company...
A Kampala lawyer, Gerald Kakuba of Kiboijana, and Company Advocates told the Constitutional Review Commission that the death penalty should be struck off the Constitution
- AUGUST 6, 2001UgandaDEATH PENALTY
According to the independent 'Monitor' newspaper, 52...
According to the independent 'Monitor' newspaper, 52 death sentences have been carried out in Uganda since President Yoweri Museveni's National Resistance Movement (NRM) came to power in 1986
- AUGUST 6, 2001UgandaDEATH PENALTY
Leading human rights campaigner Livingstone Sewanyana...
Leading human rights campaigner Livingstone Sewanyana called for the Ugandan government to abolish the death penalty as part of its ongoing constitutional review
- AUGUST 1, 2001UgandaDEATH PENALTY
Apollo Makubuya, a human rights researcher, told the...
Apollo Makubuya, a human rights researcher, told the Constitutional Review Commission that 55 prisoners were hanged in the last 10 years for murder, rape or aggravated robbery
- AUGUST 1, 2001UgandaDEATH PENALTY
There are over 200 prisoners on death row in Uganda
There are over 200 prisoners on death row in Uganda