By Timothy Nsubuga

24^th January 2011

Teso NRM agent caught red handed bribing

Fresh revelations have implicated President Museveni’s ruling NRM-O party in attempts to bribe top Forum for Democratic Change [FDC] officials in London, Uganda Correspondent can exclusively reveal.

In an email to Uganda Correspondent after news broke that NRM officials from Kampala were caught bribing people in Aloi to stay away from Dr. Besigye’s campaign rallies in Lango region last week, Mr. Charles Ochen Okwir, FDC’s former External Country Coordinator to the United Kingdom, said he too was offered inducements to abandon FDC.

Mr. Okwir said, “…I was chairing an FDC-UK Chapter meeting at President Hotel in London when my phone rang.  The person on the other side of the line said he wanted to talk to me urgently.  I told him I was busy chairing a meeting and asked the caller to come to President Hotel if the matter was urgent.  He said he can’t come to President Hotel because it was an opposition Hotel.  He then asked me to meet him (more…)

24^th January 2011

Princess Mabel Komuntale of Toro has engaged a London law firm to begin legal action against British Security Services for persecuting her family. She talked to London-based Journalist Dr. Vincent Magombe about this unprecedented legal action, about the problems facing her Kingdom, and about the 2011 elections. (more…)

By George Murumba

24^th January 2011

Who will guard Besigye as he campaigns?

The Inter Party Cooperation [IPC] has taken serious issue with the Electoral Commission over the arrest and withdrawal of Dr. Kiizza Besigye’s head of security.

On Thursday 20^th January, the head of police security of the IPC presidential candidate Inspector Charles Tumuramye was arrested from Erute North Constituency (more…)

By John Stephen Katende

24^th January 2011

AU troops in Somalia

Soldiers from Somalia’s Transitional Federal Government (TFG) and the UPDF’s African Union peacekeeping troops need urgent funding to continue their operations, a senior United Nations envoy has warned.

UN Special Representative for Somalia Augustine Mahiga told a meeting of the Joint Security Committee (JSC) of Somali officials and interested partners in neighbouring Djibouti that, “…I should take this opportunity to inform you that the [UN] Trust Fund for paying both AMISOM and TFG soldiers is at its lowest”. (more…)

By Steven Mulindwa

24^th January 2011

Pro-gay activists protest at Uganda's London mission

A lesbian whose asylum application has been rejected by the United Kingdom (UK) Home Office is to be deported back to Uganda; a country considered by the West to be hostile to homosexuals. 

The UK Border Agency is now holding 29 year old Brenda Namigadde.  Brenda Namigadde was among many pro-gay activists who staged a demonstration outside Uganda High Commission at London’s Trafalgar Square in 2009 after the government introduced an Anti-Homosexuality Bill (more…)

By Timothy Nsubuga

17^th January 2011

Dr. Besigye and Mulwanyamuli at a rally in Soroti

News and pictures coming from the vast Teso sub-region of Eastern Uganda appear to indicate that the Inter Party Cooperation [IPC’s] presidential candidate Dr. Kizza Besigye has completely destroyed President Museveni’s dream of recapturing the Teso region from the opposition.

In the 2006 elections, Dr. Kizza Besigye, who had (more…)