14th Nov 2011: When new UPC president Dr. Olara Otunu announced his (more…)
Archive for 2011
Besigye, Alaso, Lubega set for big London debate
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…)
Mulwanyamuli hails former UFF rebel
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…)
UPDF deaths: UN calls for more troops in Somalia
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…)
Al-Shabab war: Kenya worried of ‘rebel donkeys’
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…)
Salva Kiir arrests scribe for criticising him
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…)
Resisting Museveni is ‘illegal’ but also ‘right’
By Nathan Iron Emory
7th Nov 2011: The Walk-to-Work protests have triggered some impulses in (more…)
Why Nabakoba’s thighs sparked two-day debate
By Abbey K. Semuwemba
7th Nov 2011: It is well known that insecure men make fun of (more…)
Govt must halt human rights abuses, says Amnesty
By John Stephen Katende
1st Nov 2011:
File Photo: Rights abuses and terror in Uganda
The Uganda government and public officials are increasingly placing illegitimate restrictions on freedom of expression and peaceful assembly to silence critical voices, UK based human rights organisation Amnesty International has said in a report to be released today.
Amnesty’s report (‘Stifling Dissent: Restrictions on the rights to (more…)
Besigye under ‘detention without charge’
By George Murumba
31st Oct 2011:
Injured and Blinded: Besigye being arrested in April
The Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) party President Kizza Besigye has been arrested again by police officers as he attempted to walk-to-work this morning. The FDC leader was arrested at a roadblock mounted by security operatives on Nangobo-Kasangati road in Wakiso district soon after he left Kasangati residence to walk to his office at FDC headquarters in Najjanankumbi. (more…)
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