By John Stephen Katende

22^nd Nov 2010

LRA rebel fighters

The network of European NGOs for advocacy on Central Africa [EurAc] has said the military strategy against the LRA will have no lasting impact without dialogue and negotiations.

In a statement issued in Brussels-Belgium on November 15^th, EurAc said it had read with great interest the various reports and declarations by Human Rights Watch, Resolve, Enough, and the International Crisis Group on the problem of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA). (more…)

By Timothy Nsubuga

22^nd Nov 2010

Pope Benedict XVI

After decades of fierce opposition to the use of all contraception, the Pope Benedict has ended the Catholic Church’s absolute ban on the use of condoms.

The Pontiff said it was acceptable to use a prophylactic when the sole intention was to “…reduce the risk of infection” from Aids.  While he restated the Catholic Church’s staunch objections to contraception because it believes that it interferes with the creation of life, he argued that using a condom to preserve life and avoid death could be a responsible act – even outside marriage.

Asked whether the Catholic Church is not fundamentally against the use of condoms, he replied, (more…)

By Timothy Nsubuga

15^th Nov 2010

File photo, Dr.Kizza Besigye

Dr. Kizza Besigye, the IPC’s Presidential candidate, has adopted a very effective method of delivering his campaign messages.

Besigye’s new campaign style is simple too:  Using information passed to him by his formidable research team, Dr. Besigye is now finding it easy to directly link Museveni’s failures to the unique problems affecting the local people he addresses.

At a campaign rally (more…)

By John Stephen Katende

15^th Nov 2010

Thomas Harding

A British Journalist has predicted that Uganda will be engulfed in a serious political crisis that will force the army to overthrow the government.

Sounding very much like Ugandan Journalist Timothy Kalyegira and his ‘seer’ stories, The Telegraph’s defence correspondent Thomas Harding envisages a situation where both British commercial interests in Uganda and the insurgency in volatile DRC will spill over into Uganda to force impoverished Ugandans into an uprising. (more…)

By George Murumba

15^th Nov 2010

A famous Member of Parliament who subscribes to Museveni’s ruling NRM-O party has admitted that his party is very worried by Besigye’s popularity, Uganda Correspondent can reveal. (more…)

By Sharon S. Tibenda

15^th Nov 2010

The last of the six men who founded the Democratic Party, Uganda’s oldest party over fifty years ago, has died. (more…)