By Our Staff Writer – 30^th Aug 2010

Al-Shabab Fighters

Four Ugandan African Union peacekeepers have been killed by Al-Shabab mortar fire in the Somali capital Mogadishu; the BBC has reported.

The four UPDF soldiers were killed when an insurgent mortar hit Somalia’s presidential palace where the soldiers were stationed. 

“These opposition groups fire from positions three to four kilometres from our positions.  It was a pure coincidence that the mortar was able to kill four and injure eight of our soldiers”, said Major Barigye Bahoku, the AU peace mission spokesman. (more…)

By Our Staff Writer – 30^th Aug 2010

Uganda People’s Congress [UPC] party President Dr. Olara Otunnu has today announced that his party has pulled out of the opposition IPC alliance. (more…)

By John Stephen Katende – 30^th Aug-5^th Sept

Copses at a UN Camp in Goma, 1994

Uganda’s hitherto invincible President General Yoweri Kaguta Museveni could soon be defending himself alongside people Charles Taylor, Omar al-Bashir, Thomas Lubanga, Jean Piere Bemba, and above all, LRA’s notorious Joseph Kony.  They are all people who have been indicted by the International Criminal Court [ICC] for war crimes, crimes against humanity, and even genocide.

A leaked United Nations report into the atrocities that were allegedly committed in Zaire [now Democratic Republic of Congo] during the war that ousted President Mobutu Seseko from power has accused Uganda and her allies in that war of “wholesale” war crimes, crimes against humanity, and perhaps even genocide “…because the principal targets of the violence were Hutus”, report says. (more…)

By Justin S. Tibenda – 30^th Aug-5^th Sept

The Forum for Democratic Change [FDC] has failed to get all its top leaders to sing from the same hymn sheet over the election boycott proposal put forth by UPC President Dr. Olara Otunnu. (more…)

By Timothy Nsubuga – 30^th Aug-5^th Sept

The voters’ registers displayed by the beleaguered Kiggundu-led Electoral Commission in two Lango constituencies have over 7,000 “ghosts”; Uganda Correspondent can reveal. (more…)

By Dennis Otim – 30^th Aug–5^th Sept

The abrupt departure of spy Chief Dr. Amos Makumbi from the Internal Security Organisation [ISO] had more to do with Security Minister Amama Mbabazi’s political future than anything else; Uganda Correspondent can reveal. (more…)