By John Stephen Katende
11th June 2012:
The BBC has announced its first-ever dedicated daily TV news programme in English for African audiences. The new programme, BBC Focus on Africa, brings together the expertise of (more…)
By John Stephen Katende
11th June 2012:
The BBC has announced its first-ever dedicated daily TV news programme in English for African audiences. The new programme, BBC Focus on Africa, brings together the expertise of (more…)
By John Stephen Katende
11th June 2012:
The long awaited African Governance Platform will officially be launched this Friday, June 15, in Lusaka – Zambia by the African Union Commission’s [AUC] Department of Political Affairs. (more…)
By Online Team
4th June 2012:
The UN’s news agency IRIN has reported that the government has pulled the plug on the Amnesty Act which, since 2000, has enabled the grant of a blanket amnesty to more than 26,000 members of armed groups, especially members of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA).
The Act was (more…)
By Norman Miwambo
4th June 2012:
The judgment of The Hague-based Special Court for Sierra Leone that handed a 50 year-jail sentence to former Liberian leader Charles Taylor was a landmark decision that also has a chilling message for the leadership in Uganda. It is well documented that Uganda’s leaders have previously sponsored indicted war criminals in the region.
Taylor became the first former head of state to be convicted since World War II. Taylor, 64, was found guilty on (more…)
By Julius Odeke
4th June 2012:
The state of the roads in Teso region was thrust to the fore over a week ago when several government officials who had gone to bury the late Joseph Cuthbert Obwangor got stuck in the muddy roads and were (more…)
By Julius Odeke
4th June 2012:
It was all smiles and ululations for the families of Uganda Police officers who were promoted at the piping exercise at Soroti Lions International Club last week. (more…)
By Julius Odeke
4th June 2012:
SOROTI: The UN’s Food and Agricultural Organization [FAO] has said approximately half a million Ugandan farmers will benefit from its technical services. In an interview with Uganda Correspondent on (more…)
By John Stephen Katende
4th June 2012:
The Joint Special Envoy of the United Nations and the League of Arab States, Kofi Annan, has warned of the growing sectarian aspect of the crisis in Syria, adding that the conflict is already (more…)
By John Stephen Katende
28th May 2012:
Hundreds upon hundreds of Ugandans recruited to work as security guards as well as to provide other support services to US marines in Iraq are being treated like slaves, a report in Le Monde diplomatique has claimed.
According to the report, private security firms that won lucrative contracts to supply support staff and security guards to back up US forces in Iraq took advantage of (more…)
By George Murumba
28th May 2012:
Democratic Party [DP] President Norbert Mao’s leadership and personality has been severely criticised by a Diaspora based DP supporter, Uganda Correspondent can reveal. In a long missive sent to this newspaper, Mr Timothy Mwaka, a DP supporter based in China, attacked Mao’s leadership on a number of personal and official fronts.
“…As any concerned member of DP, I would like to (more…)