Eighteen million people are registered to vote as campaigns wind up. At least 54 people have been killed since November 2020.[2]
11 January – Presidential spokesman Don Wanyama accuses Facebook of interfering in the election after several accounts linked to President Museveni's campaign were removed for inauthentic behavior.[3]
13 January – The United States cancels its observation of the elections, saying the voting will lack transparency and accountability.[4]
14 January – 2021 Ugandan general election.[5][6]Yoweri Museveni is declared the winner with 59% of the vote compared to 35% for Bobi Wine. Wine promises to present evidence of voter fraud and to challenge the election.[7] Museveni had 5.85 million votes and Wine had 3.48 million votes; Vote turnout was 52%.[8]
18 January – Internet service is restored in 90% of the country after a five-day blackout; Bobi Wine remains under house arrest since 15 January.[9]
26 January – Troops withdraw from Bobi Wine′s home, but he remains under surveillance. Wine encourages peaceful protests but does not endorse a court challenge to the election result.[10]
1 February – Bobi Wine files a motion in the Supreme Court to cancel the results of the January election.[11]
3 February – Museveni suspends the multi-million dollar Democratic Governance Facility backed by European nations that supports local groups that promote democracy and good governance.[12]
Uganda imposes a new tax rate for using the internet as the government orders a 12% excise dutyonmobile data. PresidentYoweri Museveni defends the tax as he says that social media users are "endlessly donating money to foreign telephone companies through chatting or even lying" and described the use of social media as a "luxury". This tax proposal, which takes effect immediately, resulted in protests in 2018 and 2019.[18]
29 July – Local human rights activists in Uganda petition President Yoweri Museveni not to sign a controversial bill against gay sex into law as it could increase discrimination and hate crimes and incite violence against gay men. The bill further criminalizes homosexuality by punishing "penetration of another person's anus" with up to 10 years' imprisonment. Richard Lusimbo, a 34-year-old activist, says that even people suspected of being gay will be attacked if the bill comes into effect.[19]
16 August – In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court of Uganda strikes down a 2014 law outlawing the distribution of pornography and wearing of "indecent" clothes as unconstitutional. Women's rights groups in the country campaigned against the law since its inception, saying it unfairly singled out women for discrimination.[20]
27 August – Authorities in Uganda arrest an Islamist belonging to the ADF for planning a suicide bombing attack in the country. Police are also investigating if the murders of 21 civilians in the cities of Lwengo and Masaka since late July were carried out by ADF terrorists. The victims were killed by knifemen during raids in the night. Thirty-eight suspected have been arrested.[21]
29 August – The Home Affairs Ministry of South Africa orders the release of two gay men who were arrested and imprisoned in Johannesburg after escaping Uganda. The couple requested to remain in South Africa out of fears of persecution in Uganda. The South Gauteng High Court ordered the immediate release of the men and also ordered that they be allowed to remain in South Africa.[22]
22 September – UgandanPresidentYoweri Museveni eases COVID-19-related restrictions, including allowing churches and many sports and social activities to resume, due to a decline in the number of infections. The President will also allow universities and other post-secondary education institutions to reopen on November 1.
24 October – IS claims responsibility for yesterday's bombing at a bar in Kampala, which killed one person and injured three others.[25]
25 October – An explosion on a bus in Mpigi District kills one person and injures several others.[26]
26 October – It is revealed that yesterday's explosion on a bus in Mpigi District was carried out by an ADFsuicide bomber. The attacker was killed, and three other people were injured.[27]
28 October – UgandanPresidentYoweri Museveni announces that schools will be reopened in January after being closed for almost two years due to the pandemic, while the rest of the economy will be reopened in the same month.
29 October – Two children are killed by a bomb explosion at a village in Nakaseke District. The device looked like a jackfruit and was given to the children while they were playing.[28]
20 December – The governments of Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo reveal that they have captured 35 rebels and destroyed numerous enemy strongholds within the past week.[33]
21 December - In the past three weeks, two police posts have been attacked at Ssekanyonyi in Mityana district and Nakasozi in Kiboga district where four police officers were killed by unknown armed men and their guns taken. Police spokesperson, Fred Enanga said following leads from the two attacks, operatives from Crime Intelligence and the Flying Squad unit raided Kabuusi swamp in Kassanda district where eight members were rounded up. The eight people admitted that this was a new group named Ugandan Coalition Forces of Change(UCFC) who aim was to change of government in Uganda using the power of the gun. According to security, the group recruited mainly from Wakiso district and later created two camps in Mityana from where they carried out the first attack on Ssekanyonyi police post after luring police officers into an ambush.[34]
