By Timothy Nsubuga

11^th May 2011:

Otunnu and other opposition leaders covered in pink dye

Uganda Police Force anti riot officers yesterday surprised protesting opposition leaders and their supporters in the capital city Kampala when they abandoned the usual tear gas and deployed water cannon trucks on the streets which sprayed the protesters with high pressure water laden with pink dye.

Uganda People’s Congress (more…)

John Stephen Katende

11^th May 2011:

President Yoweri Museveni addressing Journalist

An angry looking Museveni yesterday announced plans by his government to amend the constitution of Uganda in order to deny economic saboteurs, murder, rape, treason, defilement and riot suspects the right to apply for release on bail until they serve at least 180 days in a remand prison without trial.

Addressing a press conference at his (more…)

By Timothy Nsubuga

The Face of Evil: Gilbert Arinaitwe smashing Besigye's car

9^th May 2011: A senior National Executive Committee [NEC] member of the opposition Forum for Democratic Change [FDC], who has requested anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter, has told Uganda Correspondent that he is extremely worried that government security operatives may have installed listening devices and other dangerous things (more…)

By Sharon Tibenda

Walk-to-Work: There could be more of this on the way

9^th May 2011: All the major opposition parties in Uganda have called for a fresh wave of protests against the NRM government’s violent, and in some cases, brutal crackdown on peaceful ‘walk-to-work’ protesters, civilians, and opposition leaders.

In a joint statement issued in Kampala on May 7^th by the Forum for Democratic Change (more…)

By Julius Odeke Onyango

9^th May 2011:

Anne Mugisha at Nairobi Hospital doing the interview

Nairobi-President Yoweri Museveni is believed to be in a state of panic after several Heads of State whom he had invited to attend his fifth swearing in ceremony scheduled to take place on 12^th May at Kololo Airstrip turned down the invitation.

The developments have come in the wake of the on-going walk-to-work demonstrations that have (more…)

By George Murumba

9^th May 2011: Hundreds of ‘Activists for Change’ [A4C] protesters who have been engaged in the ‘walk-to-work’ campaign against the high cost of living in Uganda may have already hatched a plan to (more…)

John Stephen Katende

9^th May 2011: The United Nations human rights chief has urged Ugandan authorities to immediately halt the use of “excessive” force (more…)