By Our Staff Writer – 19th-25th July 2010
Uganda Correspondent this week publishes the final and perhaps most emotionally charged part of its exclusive interview series with Col. John Charles Ogole; Museveni’s arch enemy in the Luwero Triangle war. (more…)
By Dennis Otim – 19th-25th July 2010
The British government has revised its Uganda travel advice and also warned its citizens against travelling to certain parts of Uganda at certain times. (more…)
19th-25th July 2010
UC: Colonel, you have spoken at length about many things that you associate with Museveni’s government. What do you think is the remedy now?
Col. Ogole: The short answer to your question should simply be that enough is enough! I am happy to report now that many of the practical political challenges that Museveni is facing today, and will no doubt face in the very near future, were partly because many Ugandans like me adopted that silent approach as a way of keeping the possibility of the dictator’s reprisals at a safe distance. It is now too late for Museveni; he is now politically naked. (more…)
Uganda’s main media houses last week reported a number of important issues that Uganda Correspondent feels its weekly readers deserve to know about; just in case they missed out. Read excerpts from those stories in our news round-up here. (more…)
By Josephine N. Kalisa – 19th-25th July 2010
I want to say something to Al Shabaab if they are listening. Yes, you have succeeded once. You have killed many of our people. (more…)
19th-25th July 2010
The government of Uganda has reacted to the terrorist bombs that went off and killed 76 people in Kampala by threatening to take the fight to Al Shabaab. The offensive will likely begin with a deployment of 20,000 more soldiers to Somalia. (more…)
By Our Staff Writer – 12th-18th July 2010
It was supposed to be a night of sporting celebration across the globe as the FIFA world cup drew to a dramatic close in South Africa. Someone, somewhere, however, had other sinister ideas and ruined the party; at least for many Ugandans. On the same night of the world cup finals, the Ugandan capital Kampala was rocked by multiple bomb blasts that ripped through Kampala’s skyline. (more…)
By Our Staff Writer – 12th-18th July 2010
Dr. Olara Otunnu
Uganda Correspondent readers have over the last four weeks heard Col. John Charles Ogole argue that Museveni’s NRM government deliberately set out to tarnish his name using a propaganda campaign that is “grotesque” and “totally against the African culture” for its use of human skulls [see: Uganda Correspondent, 28th June 2010]. Some Uganda Correspondent readers who responded to Ogole’s claims didn’t exactly state who they blamed for the Luwero atrocities. One merely said,“…the real butchers of Luwero are the people who mercilessly left the skull of their victims lying on display like tomatoes on sale by the road side. (more…)
By Dennis Otim – 12th-18th July 2010
A painting that depicts the “body” of South African and world political icon Nelson Mandela undergoing an autopsy has been condemned by South Africa’s ruling African National Congress [ANC] party; the BBC has reported. (more…)
By Dennis Kizito – 12th-18th July 2010
An NRM party MP has said his government will not, and must not relent in its efforts to prosecute former Buganda Katikkiro [Prime Minister] Joseph Mulwanyamuli Ssemwogerere for allegedly contravening the country’s social security law. (more…)
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