By Our Reporter
14th Nov 2011: “…The more open we are, the more willing we are to hear constructive criticism, the more effective we can be; And ultimately, governments are here to serve the people, NOT to serve those in power.” US President Barack Obama said at (more…)
By Sharon Tibenda
14th Nov 2011: A joint team of police and military officers from the feared Rapid Response Unit [RRU] in Masaka town have arrested a Masaka pig farmer for (more…)
By John Stephen Katende
14th Nov 2011: An energy and associated sectors industry delegation from the United Kingdom will arrive in Uganda today for a trade mission. The three day mission [14-16th November] will be (more…)
14th Nov 2011: Dear brothers and sisters from Uganda, it is (more…)
14th Nov 2011: When new UPC president Dr. Olara Otunu announced his (more…)
By John Stephen Katende
7th Nov 2011:
Besigye: Set for a 'Grand Public Debate'
Forum for Democratic Change [FDC] Party President Dr Kizza Besigye will on Saturday 12th November deliver “a keynote speech” to Ugandans living in the United Kingdom at an event that the organisers [FDC-UK Chapter] have called the “Grand Public Debate” on the current political crisis and future of Uganda’s democracy.
Accompanied by FDC Secretary General Hon. Alice Alaso, the FDC leader, who is also the current Chairman of the Democratic Union of Africa (more…)
By Our Reporter
7th Nov 2011:
Former Buganda PM Mulwanyamuli
Former Buganda Prime Minister Mr Joseph Mulwanyamuli Ssemwogerere has praised the deceased former Uganda Freedom Fighters [UFF] founder member Mr. Kibuuka Musoke, calling him a hero of Uganda’s liberation struggle. Kibuuka passed away in August this year after suffering from heart attack and his body was laid to rest at Liverpool in the United Kingdom.
Mulwanyamuli praised the late Kibuuka whom he said was (more…)
By Sharon Tibenda
7th Nov 2011:
More needed: UPDF troops in Somalia
The United Nations envoy for Somalia has stressed the need to bring the strength of the African Union peacekeeping force in the Horn of Africa country to the 12,000 troops mandated by the Security Council, adding that the force also needs the capacity to deal with unconventional tactics of war.
Augustine Mahiga, the Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Somalia, told a news conference in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi on (more…)
By Dennis Otim
7th Nov 2011:
Donkeys caught in the heat of human battles
Kenya’s military spokesman has said large groups of donkeys in Somalia will be considered “al-Shabab activity” following reports the militants are using the animals to transport weapons. Major Emmanuel Chirchir used Twitter to warn Kenyans not to sell their donkeys to the Islamist group.
Kenya, which unlike its counterparts in the Great Lakes region [like Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, DRC, Sudan, etc] has (more…)
By George Murumba
7th Nov 2011: Ngor Aguot Garang, a Journalist at Sudan Tribune, was arrested and taken into custody on Wednesday 2nd November by South Sudan’s security services following the publication of (more…)
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