By Our Online Team
9th Jan 2012: The Kenyan government has warned of an imminent terrorist attack from what the hawkish former US President George Bush would probably have called (more…)
Museveni accused of killing Sudan rebel leader
By Timothy Nsubuga
21st Dec 2011:
George Athor: Controversial in life and death
The surviving leaders of one of South Sudan’s main rebel groups, the South Sudan’s Democratic Movement/Army (SSDM/A), have accused Uganda President Yoweri Museveni of killing their leader George Athor. In a statement seen by Uganda Correspondent, which was signed by Maj. Gen. Bapiny Monytuil, the deputy leader of the military wing of SSDM said:
“…George Athor was killed by (more…)
Uganda accused of crimes against humanity
By Timothy Nsubuga
19th Dec 2011:
File photo: Terror in Uganda
The government of Uganda must immediately halt commission of the crimes against humanity and unconditionally releases all the citizens who have been arbitrarily detained or purportedly charged with offences that are clearly inapplicable in the circumstances, the East African Law Society has said.
In a statement (more…)
Bookshops defy govt orders on anti-Museveni book
By George Murumba
19th Dec 2011:
The front cover of the book
A number of bookshops in and around the Ugandan capital Kampala have finally braved the ever looming threat of State intimidation, harassment, and possible arrest and decided to stock copies of Portrait of a Despot, a hard-hitting anti-Museveni book written by London based Ugandan Lawyer and Journalist Charles Ochen Okwir.
First launched in London on 14th May 2011, the book has the most vitriolic attacks on President Yoweri Museveni’s 26 year record in power. It also offers broad insights into how modern despots use the law as a tool of political oppression, a fact that the author says, is fully vindicated by the ruling NRM government’s recent arrest and prosecution of ‘walk-to-work’ activists Ingrid Turinawe, Sam Mugumya, and Francis Mwijukye.
“…In Chapter three of the book, [See: A Modern Despot’s Alfa Tool of Oppression] (more…)
Kitgum civil servants threaten ‘action’ over pay
By Stephen Komakech
19th Dec 2011: Civil servants in the northern district of Kitgum have threatened to take unspecified ‘action’ against the government’s failure and or delay to pay their salary arrears. Although the (more…)
Standard Bank joins UN in war on HIV/Aids
By Dennis Otim
19th Dec 2011: The United Nations body tasked with combating the spread of HIV/AIDS and one of Africa’s largest banks have formed a two-year partnership to raise public awareness of the (more…)
Political insecurity linked to sexual violence
By Sharon Tibenda
19th Dec 2011: The UN’s Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro has stressed that efforts to restore peace and stability in Africa’s Great Lakes region will not come to fruition unless the scourge of sexual violence is (more…)
Arab Spring: Tunisia unveils Bouazizi statue
By Our Online Team
19th Dec 2011: Tunisians have unveiled a statue in honour of the late fruit seller Mohamed Bouazizi, the man who set himself alight a year ago and whose plight sparked the so-called “Arab Spring” protests that (more…)
Justice Sebutinde bags top job at world court
By Timothy Nsubuga
13th Dec 2011:
High flyer: Justice Sebutinde
The General Assembly and the Security Council today elected a Ugandan jurist to fill the final vacancy on the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the principal judicial organ of the United Nations.
Justice Julia Sebutinde obtained an absolute majority in both the Assembly and the Council, a requirement for (more…)
UPDF Generals linked to anti-Umeme protests
By Sharon Tibenda
12th Dec 2011:
Army Chief: Are his Generals guilty?
The recent protests by business owners and traders along Kampala’s Nasser road against Umeme’s persistent load-shedding was caused in part by the chronic failure of powerful army General who own commercial properties there to pay their electricity bills, Uganda Correspondent can exclusively reveal.
According to our source, a top Umeme official who spoke to this reporter on (more…)
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