By John Stephen Katende

12^th Sept 2011:

Seated bottom right: Akaki at Oslo conference

Forum for Democratic Change [FDC] International Envoy to the United Kingdom & European Union Mr. Sam Akaki collapsed on board a Scandinavian Airways flight from Olso to London on Friday 9^th September, raising immediate fears that the top opposition ‘diplomat’ may have been poisoned by some “government hit men”.

Mr Akaki had been invited to Norway by the Norwegian Council for Africa [an organisation formed in 1964 as (more…)

By Timothy Nsubuga

12^th Sept 2011:

Museveni: Is he now a deranged buffoon?

A Rwandese newspaper the Rwanda Focus has, in its editorial of 5^th September, [See: A great pity what has happened to Museveni] expressed ‘great sadness’ that President Yoweri Museveni has “…descended to levels of incompetence and buffoonery once associated only with the likes of Mobutu, Moi, and other of that ilk”. We have judged it to be fair to do no more than reproduce the vitriolic editorial verbatim below. (more…)

By John Stephen Katende

12^th Sept 2011:

NRM-UK Chief Asiimwe at Oslo conference

The National Resistance Movement [NRM] United Kingdom Chapter Chairman Mr. Patrick Asiimwe has been accused of ‘gate-crashing’ into a conference in Oslo-Norway.  The conference was organised by the Norwegian Council for Africa to discuss the ‘Post-election Violence by Government Forces and the Prospect for Democracy in Uganda’.

Uganda Correspondent has seen a video recording of the conference on facebook in which Mr Robert Egwea, the (more…)

By George Murumba

12^th Sept 2011: The government should disclose any evidence it claims to have against the detained Kenyan human rights defender Al-Amin Kimathi or release him, (more…)

By Norman Miwambo

12^th Sept 2011: Sunday, September 11^th marked the tenth anniversary of terrorist attacks that brought down the iconic twin towers of the World Trade Centre in the centre of New York on (more…)

By Dennis Otim

12^th Sept 2011: Virgin Atlantic boss Sir Richard Branson last week threw his heavy weight and support behind a United Nations-backed drive to rid the world of the remaining discriminatory laws that (more…)

By George Murumba

5^th Sept 2011:

Were scribes bribed to hit him hard?

Leaked US diplomatic cables released recently by the whistleblower website WikiLeaks have revealed how the over-energetic and NRM leaning CEO of the Vision Group Mr. Robert Kabushenga virtually “…took over the newsroom” and “forced” the Editor-in-Chief of The New Vision newspaper to “…keep President Museveni in the headlines and to run pro-government stories”.

The leaked cables also revealed that (more…)

By M. Suleman

5^th Sept 2011: Last week was politically occupied by the appearance of the fiery, fire spitting leader of the ANC Youth League Mr Julius Malema.  Malema was summoned to appear before the ANC Disciplinary Committee to defend himself against (more…)

By Norman S. Miwambo

5^th Sept 2011: The Commonwealth Association has been urged to discuss the decriminalisation of homosexuality and other Lesbian, Gay, Bi-Sexual and Trans-gender [LGBT] human rights issues at (more…)