By Our Online Team
24th Oct 2011:
Dead Ugandan, Burundi troops in Somalia
Reports and pictures coming out of the Somali capital Mogadishu indicate that up to 70 (seventy) African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) peacekeeping troops were killed in bloody battle last week by the extremist Islamic militants Al Shabaab.
The dead troops, the majority of whom are said to be Burundian soldiers, were killed on Thursday following a battle with Al Shabab, according to Abu Omar, a commander (more…)
By George Murumba
24th Oct 2011:
Museveni: Is his hour of reckoning fast approaching?
Dr. Kizza Besigye, the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) party President who was placed under “house arrest” for the entire duration of the second phase of the ‘walk-to-work’ campaign last week, has warned President Museveni to stop thinking that he can perpetually use teargas and bullets to suppress the people’s yearning for freedom, democracy, and social justice. (more…)
By John Stephen Katende
24th Oct 2011:
IGP Kayihura: Criticised by senior officers
He has been in post for over five years. In that time, nearly all opposition political parties in Uganda have cried foul over his force’s brutality. Independent civil society and human rights groups operating in Uganda have also spoken out against him. The international community has faulted his heavy-handed policing tactics.
Now, and perhaps for the very first time, three senior officers in Inspector General of Police (more…)
By Dennis Otim
24th Oct 2011:
Are they being used to oppress the opposition?
The fight against terrorism must never be used as a pretext for abusing basic human rights or silencing the opposition, as has happened in many professedly democratic countries over the past decade, a United Nations expert has warned.
Speaking at the news conference in New York on 21st Oct, the UN Special Rapporteur on counter-terrorism and human rights Ben Emmerson said over the last ten years, many countries have stretched the definitions of terrorism to (more…)
By Sharon Tibenda
24th Oct 2011: President Yoweri Museveni has said Uganda will soon start ‘exporting’ teachers to South Sudan as a way of helping the new nation build its human resource capacity and (more…)
24th Oct 2011: Dear Yoweri, it’s been weeks since I last had a proper (more…)
24th Oct 2011: The killing and ultimate humiliation [even in death] of (more…)
24th Oct 2011: Whether it was a one off or not, the courage and (more…)
24th Oct 2011: The US government’s decision to send its troops to (more…)
By Timothy Nsubuga
20th Oct 2011
The end of the road for Gaddafi
Former Libyan Leader Col. Muammar Gaddafi, a man who ruled Libya with an iron fist for 42 years, has been killed in a fierce fire fight by forces loyal to the ruling Libyan National Transitional Council (NTC) in his home town of Sirte. Mobile phone images have appeared on the internet showing the bloodied body of the former Libyan leader being dragged on the streets of Sirte, the final humiliation of (more…)
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