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…)
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…)
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…)
By Our Online Team
9th July 2012:
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…)
By Abbey K. Semuwemba
9th July 2012:
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…)
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…)
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…)
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…)
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…)
By Online Team
25th June 2012:
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:
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…)