By Sharon S. Tibenda

20^th Sept 2010

A report by the Commission for Africa that was set up by Britain’s former Prime Minister Tony Blair to find solutions to poverty in Africa says the continent needs billions more dollars in aid. (more…)

By Dennis Otim

13^th Sept 2010

EC Boss Kiggundu

The embattled Electoral Commission Chairman Eng. Badru Kiggundu threw all caution to the wind and attended the just concluded NRM Delegates conference at Mandela National Stadium.

Uganda Correspondent can reveal that the EC boss, who has been under consistent fire from opposition parties for his near open association with the ruling NRM party, was seen mingling happily among other NRM party faithful who had gathered at Namboole to elect their party flag bearers for the 2011 elections.

It’s not the first time that Kiggundu has, either by omission or commission, sent out strong hints suggesting that he may be a fully fledged NRM supporter or even secret activist.  (more…)

By Timothy Nsubuga

13^th Sept 2010

Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army [LRA] rebels have once again called for a ceasefire and resumption of peace talks between itself and the government of Uganda.

In a September 6^th letter to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, Mr. Justine Labeja Nyeko, who described himself as the acting leader of the LRA/M Peace Team, wrote to the UN saying “…the LRA/M Peace Team now therefore prays [to] the Secretary General of the United Nations Organization to use the considerable leverage of his position in the United Nations and the world to get the governments of Uganda, the DR Congo, Southern Sudan, and Central African Republic to declare a verifiable ceasefire to enable a return to the peace process”.

The LRA also called upon the UN Secretary General to expeditiously appoint a new and more suitable envoy to attend to the critical matter of the peace process for the ‘northern’ Uganda conflict.  The LRA, it seems, is also in no doubt about who was responsible for the failure of the Juba Peace talks.  As far it is concerned, the government of Uganda was to blame. (more…)

By John Stephen Katende

13^th Sept 2010

An outsider?

A flamboyant and wealthy NRM leader has said Vice President Prof. Gilbert Bukenya is an outsider who doesn’t know and will never be allowed to know how the NRM actually works.

Sitting comfortably by the pool-side at a posh Hotel buried in the middle of Bugolobi’s up market residential area with the evening breeze blowing over his greying head, this top NRM ideologue who spoke to Uganda Correspondent on condition of anonymity, also said VP Bukenya is a very naïve Professor.

“Our VP is a very naïve Professor, I am sorry to say.  He has completely forgotten who he is and how he became VP.  He never fought.  That makes him an outsider who will never be allowed to know how the NRM machine really works. (more…)

By Timothy Nsubuga

13^th Sept 2010

He's back again!

Incumbent NRM party Chairman Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has been endorsed and returned unopposed as the party’s national Chairman.  According the NRM party constitution, Museveni’s retention of the party Chairmanship also makes him the party’s automatic flag bearer for the 2011 elections.

The NRM National Executive Council [NEC] endorsed Museveni at a 10hr meeting on Friday 10^th Sept at State House Entebbe.  Whilst Museveni’s position was never in any doubt, sources that attended the meeting said the party’s NEC spent most of the 10hrs debating the fate of other top NRM big shots like Vice Chairman Hajji Moses Kigongo and Secretary General Amama Mbabazi. (more…)

By Justin S. Tibenda

13^th Sept 2010

Suspected thief

Authorities in neighbouring Rwanda have handed over to Uganda a Ugandan who they accused of being a thief.  Rwandese police handed over the suspected Ugandan criminal who was arrested in Burera District after he reportedly attempted to break into a commercial building.

The suspect, known as Wilson Rwakana, was handed over by the Rwandese Northern Province Regional Police Commander CSP Peter Hodari.  Rwakana was then received by Euzobia Muyambi, the officer in charge of Cyanika border post on the Ugandan side.

He was arrested from Kaganda commercial centre, (more…)