By Sharon Tibenda
7th May 2012:
The BBC World Service will, tomorrow, May 2, invite young people from schools around the world to discuss, debate and share their views on what really matters to them. In several special editions of World Schools Have Your Say, (more…)
By Stephen Twinoburyo
30th April 2012:
Is this the Hima Dynasty? COURTESY PHOTO, IPL
From time to time, I have seen debates on social media and in the mainstream media referring to Uganda’s ethnic groups. This has often turned fiery whenever the discussion is about the ‘ruling’ Bahiima ethnic group. The most recent hullabaloo concerns comments attributed to an NTV presenter.
As a Munyankole who partly grew up in the predominantly Bahiima area of Nyabushozi, I wish to give my own opinion/analysis (more…)
By George Murumba
30th April 2012:
Gen. Yoweri Museveni: Is he a war criminal?
A top Ugandan consultant in international criminal and humanitarian law has called on The Hague based International Criminal Court [ICC] to investigate and indict President Yoweri Museveni for war crimes and crimes against humanity linked to the president’s alleged support for Congolese warlords Thomas Lubanga and Jean Bemba, as well as for alleged war crimes committed against civilians in northern Uganda.
In his reaction to (more…)
By Peter Okello Maber
30th April 2012:
Did NRM bus bring 'progress upon progress'?
I am writing this piece to highlight the great achievements Uganda has made and continues to make under the leadership of President Museveni and NRM since 1986. The objective, being to counter the lies and falsehoods that critics of NRM have been spreading in a vain effort to deny and in some cases to reverse these glaring achievements.
We acknowledge and are not blind to the fact that (more…)
By Charles Ochen Okwir
30th April 2011:
On Friday April 27, BBC Africa Debate came live from the Ugandan capital Kampala. Over the last few months, the debate has asked whether Congo is a failed state, delved into the possibilities of an African Spring, discussed (more…)
By John Stephen Katende
30th April 2012:
“The fighting in Blue Nile has turned its people into refugees, forcing them to abandon their homes and livelihoods,” said Daniel Bekele, Africa director at Human Rights Watch. “The horrific accounts of extra-judicial killings, (more…)
By Timothy Nsubuga
23rd April 2012:
Sickening: Police officer pulls Ingrid's breast
The opposition Forum for Democratic Change [FDC] Party President Dr Kizza Besigye has expressed outrage at the manner in which Uganda Police Force officers indecently assaulted opposition pressure group For God & My Country [4GC] activist Ms Ingrid Turinawe, who is also his party’s Women’s League Leader.
In a telephone interview with (more…)
By Online Team
23rd April 2012:
Rebel SPLM-N Secretary General Arman
The Sudanese government has accused Ugandan authorities of issuing passports to senior officials from the rebel Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N) that is fighting to overthrow President Omar Al Bashir’s government. If proved to be true, the revelation, which was published by the Sudan Tribune newspaper could worsen the simmering diplomatic relations between Uganda and Sudan. (more…)
By John Stephen Katende
23rd April 2012:
Projected image Joseph Kony on a US street
US NGO Invisible Children’s campaign to eliminate Lord’s Resistance Army [LRA] rebel chief Joseph Kony went up notch last week, April 20, with the start of a grassroots mobilisation campaign which the organisers say is intended “to create buzz and public support”.
In Los Angeles, three dozen high school girls removed weeds, trash and graffiti from their campus. The girls were among small groups of (more…)
By Online Team
23rd April 2012:
Northern Uganda IDP Camps
Inter-communal disputes over land and the allocation of land to private investors for cultivation, could threaten peace in parts of northern Uganda, IRIN news has reported.
The UN’s News Agency said, so far in 2012, at least five people have been killed in violent land disputes in the villages of Lakang, Apar and Pabbo in the northern district of Amuru. Two more people were (more…)
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