By Online Team
25th June 2012:
Arrow Boys militia armed by govt: FILE PHOTO
An investigative report by the Institute of War and Peace Reporters [IWPR] indicates that the government’s northern Uganda disarmament programme has “failed to recover any weapons at all” because, according to experts, the government failed “to engage effectively with the local population.”
The scheme is the latest to be launched in northern Uganda since the 20 year conflict with (more…)
By Samuel Olara
25th June 2012:
Posh and Private: St Mary's Coll Kitende
In Uganda, children from peasant families are being condemned to failure because of an “apartheid” system of education that has been allowed to flourish unabated, driven by the ability to pay rather than merit.
The declining quality of Uganda’s education system must be a concern to all Ugandans. Along almost every dimension of comparison in our education system today, (more…)
By Online Team
25th June 2012:
Offshore investors who have departed Uganda’s debt market because of falling yields and fears about the currency’s strength have another reason to stay away: an increase in (more…)
By George Murumba
25th June 2012:
Responding to growing international criticism of its anti-gay efforts, the government of Uganda said in a statement on Friday last week that it does not discriminate against people “of a different sexual orientation.” (more…)
25th June 2012: To the uncritical Ugandans, it is (more…)
25th June 2012: I have travelled a considerable bit in (more…)
By Lucy Hovil
18th June 2012:
Museveni: Should his removal be top priority?
The momentous occasion of the ICC’s first verdict against the Congolese militia leader, Thomas Lubanga, has attracted considerable amounts of discussion and a fair amount of self-congratulation within the international justice community. And why not!
After all, it symbolises the coming of age of an international court that has become the centrepiece for promoting international criminal justice in some of the world’s most (more…)
By Sharon Tibenda
18th June 2012:
The National Social Security Fund (NSSF) has, in a dramatic twist, revealed that it already lends funds to the government. The news comes in the wake of President Museveni’s revelation in the State of the Nation address, in which he (more…)
By IRIN News Agency
18th June 2012:
Jennifer Abalo struggles to support two of her own and two of her late sister’s children. She lost her father, sister and two of her children to Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) violence between 1998 and 2004, but like (more…)
By Shefali
18th June 2012:
It’s difficult to get positive results in Somalia until reconciliation starts right at the bottom, where neighbours in a village reconcile, then neighbours in a city, then neighbours in a state, then finally, neighbours at (more…)
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