Congo Oil: Curse or development opportunity?

By International Crisis Group

16th July 2012:

Renewed oil interest in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) could nurture communal resentments, exacerbate deep-rooted conflict dynamics and weaken (more…)


Drogba gets hero’s welcome in Shanghai

By Our Online Team

16th July 2012:

More than 300 fans gathered in Shanghai to welcome Ivory Coast striker Didier Drogba on his much-anticipated arrival on Saturday, July 15, to play for (more…)


Oil curse: Security chiefs cited in Buliisa thuggery

By Our Online Team

9th July 2012:

Mr Eriakimi Kaseegu - a Local Council official

KASENYI, BULIISA DISTRICT:  Months after the central government tried to quell land speculation in oil-rich Bunyoro by suspending the issue of new land titles, Oil in Uganda visited Kasenyi, on the north-eastern shores of Lake Albert, and unearthed a tale of double-dealing and thuggery seemingly abetted by district leaders and security officials.

Eriakimi Kaseegu, the Kasenyi Local Council One Chairman, (more…)


Analysis: Buganda nationalism could save Uganda

By Abbey K. Semuwemba

9th July 2012:

HRH Mutebi - The King of Buganda

Multiculturalism tells us that Uganda is a collection of various cultures – but with a dominant Baganda culture. Yes, there is a lot of rage against ganda culture, or whatever it represents – largely because of historical reasons.

But my appeal to people feeling like that is to find it in their hearts to forgive Buganda for past mistakes and we move on. We have a country to build, and it will require the collective efforts of (more…)


Saif Gaddafi: Can a reviled man have human rights?

By Charles Ochen Okwir

9th July 2012:

When British Prime Minister David Cameron was asked whether he agrees that “…it would be wrong for convicted prisoners to be able to vote”, his response, a swift one at that, left no doubt in (more…)


Nkumba beats MUK on oil training ladder

By Our Online Team

9th July 2012:

Uganda’s oil discovery has created market openings in several sectors, and universities are among those seeing opportunities, aiming to create petroleum courses that can (more…)


Kony2012: UN endorses new anti-LRA strategy

By John Stephen Katende

9th July 2012:

The United Nations Security Council has endorsed the regional strategy developed by the United Nations to tackle the threat posed by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) rebel, and called for (more…)


BA splashes $21,000 on Uganda Olympic team

By Sharon Tibenda

9th July 2012:

British Airways [BA], the Official Airline Partner of the 2012 London Olympics and Paralympic Games will fly the main Ugandan Olympic contingent to this year’s summer games after agreeing to (more…)


Govt disarmament drive in north yields zero guns

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…)


Analysis: NRM’s schools creating apartheid

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…)


2013/3/24

I will throw a hot stone behind CJ Odoki’s back
By John Baptist Oloka 25th March 2013:

The media broke news of More... (0)


2013/2/26

The late Mzee Kaguta was a naughty boy
By Lawrence Kasozi

25th February 2013: This is totally out of More... (0)


2013/2/26

Museveni is pathological hypocrite
By Norman Miwambo

25th February 2013: I don’t believe Museveni was More... (0)


2013/2/17

Obote is crying for his beloved country
By M. Suleman

18th February 2013: Uganda’s late president Dr Apollo More... (0)


2013/2/3

Wake up fools: Army took over long ago
By Bernard Ddumba

4th Feb 2013: Over the last two weeks, I seriously More... (0)


2013/2/3

NRM revolution is eating its own children
By Charles Businge

4th February 2013: In 1986, the new leadership promised More... (0)


2013/1/27

It’s lawful to resist coup plotters – let’s do it
By Elijah M. Tumwebaze

28th January 2013: In a powerful opinion article that More... (0)


2013/1/27

Our parliament only exists on paper
By M. Suleman

28th January 2013: Uganda is a country endowed with More... (0)


2013/1/22

Museveni is right to call NRM MPs idiots
By M. Suleman

21st Jan 2013: In the drama that followed More... (0)


2012/12/18

Isn’t Museveni a deranged psychopath?
By M. Suleman

17th Dec 2012: An emotional, grief-stricken, and More... (0)


 

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