By Sharon Tibenda

6^th June 2011:

Yemeni protesters celebrating the departure of a despot

Thousands of people in Yemen, including soldiers and policemen, are celebrating the departure of President Ali Abdullah Saleh who has been in power for 33 years.  President Saleh left on Saturday for Saudi Arabia to be treated for injuries he sustained in an attack on his presidential compound last Friday.

Many celebrated in the capital, Sanaa’s (more…)

By Dennis Otim

6^th June 2011:

The deadly Apache combat helicopter

The deadly British Apache combat helicopters have destroyed a radar station and a military checkpoint held by Libyan leader Col. Muammar Gaddafi’s forces near Brega in their first mission over Libya.

Launched just after midnight last Friday, the British Apaches helicopters flew stealthily under the cover darkness from Britain’s aircraft carrying vessel HMS Ocean that is stationed off the African (more…)

By Timothy Nsubuga

30^th May 2011:

Left-Right: Indicted Ex VP Bukenya and His Highness the Kabaka

Former Vice President Prof. Gilbert Bukenya has been indicted by the Inspector General of Government [IGG] on allegations of corruption related to the procurement of the executive cars and motorcycles for the 2007 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Kampala.

According to the spokesperson of the IGG’s office (more…)

By Our Online Team

30^th May 2011:

Rise up against dictatorship, Atwoli says

A whopping 2million people from across East Africa could soon be mobilised to join the ongoing ‘walk-to-work’ and ‘hoot for change’ protests called by ‘Activists for Change’ if President Museveni does not “democratise Uganda”; East African Trade Union Chief Francis Atwoli has warned.

The Standard, a Kenyan newspaper, reported last week that Mr. Atwoli, who is the Secretary General of the Central Organisation of Trade Unions (COTU), had said the crackdown on opposition leaders by President Yoweri Museveni was dictatorial.  “…Ugandans must rise up against bad leadership.  Museveni must democratise Uganda. He must (more…)

By George Murumba

30^th May 2011:

President Yoweri Museveni being sworn-in in 1986

Uganda Correspondent has landed on a deadly 1986 memo titled “Rethink” which, at face value, appears to suggest that there may have been a ‘plan to eliminate northerners’ from Uganda and re-draw the country’s national boundary.

Dated November 14^th 1986 and referenced Sec/D.1/Pol.10, the deadly memo from someone who only identified him or herself as “Tremor 1”, possibly an alias or operational code name, (more…)

By John Stephen Katende

30^th May 2011:

Is this the face of an 'enduring dictator'?

President Yoweri Museveni, who has just embarked on a fresh five year term of office that will take his total tenure to thirty years, has officially joined the unfashionable club of the world’s most ‘enduring dictators’, the American CBS news has said.

The news organisation’s World-Watch series called “The world’s enduring dictators” was inspired by the revolutionary events in Tunisia and Egypt.  Through this series, (more…)

By Our Online Team

30^th May 2011: WBS Television and NTV, the two leading local television stations in the country, narrowly survived being closed by the government at the height of the ‘walk-to-work’ protests last month; Uganda Correspondent can reveal. (more…)