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UPDF deaths: UN calls for more troops in Somalia

By Sharon Tibenda

7^th Nov 2011:

More needed: UPDF troops in Somalia

The United Nations envoy for Somalia has stressed the need to bring the strength of the African Union peacekeeping force in the Horn of Africa country to the 12,000 troops mandated by the Security Council, adding that the force also needs the capacity to deal with unconventional tactics of war.

Augustine Mahiga, the Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Somalia, told a news conference in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi on (more…)

Al-Shabab war: Kenya worried of ‘rebel donkeys’

By Dennis Otim

7^th Nov 2011:

Donkeys caught in the heat of human battles

Kenya’s military spokesman has said large groups of donkeys in Somalia will be considered “al-Shabab activity” following reports the militants are using the animals to transport weapons. Major Emmanuel Chirchir used Twitter to warn Kenyans not to sell their donkeys to the Islamist group.

Kenya, which unlike its counterparts in the Great Lakes region [like Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, DRC, Sudan, etc] has (more…)

Salva Kiir arrests scribe for criticising him

By George Murumba

7^th Nov 2011: Ngor Aguot Garang, a Journalist at Sudan Tribune, was arrested and taken into custody on Wednesday 2^nd November by South Sudan’s security services following the publication of (more…)

Govt must halt human rights abuses, says Amnesty

By John Stephen Katende

1^st Nov 2011:

File Photo: Rights abuses and terror in Uganda

The Uganda government and public officials are increasingly placing illegitimate restrictions on freedom of expression and peaceful assembly to silence critical voices, UK based human rights organisation Amnesty International has said in a report to be released today.

Amnesty’s report (‘Stifling Dissent: Restrictions on the rights to (more…)

Besigye under ‘detention without charge’

By George Murumba

31^st Oct 2011:

Injured and Blinded: Besigye being arrested in April

The Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) party President Kizza Besigye has been arrested again by police officers as he attempted to walk-to-work this morning. The FDC leader was arrested at a roadblock mounted by security operatives on Nangobo-Kasangati road in Wakiso district soon after he left Kasangati residence to walk to his office at FDC headquarters in Najjanankumbi. (more…)

NATO refuses to rule out military action in Uganda

By George Murumba

31^st Oct 2011:

The aftermath of a NATO bomb in Libya

Buoyed by the devastating success of its jet fighter attacks on the late Libyan leader Col. Muammar Gaddafi’s forces, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation [NATO] has, upon prompting, refused to rule out a similar military intervention in Uganda or any other part of the world if the need to protect civilians from state brutality arises.

Reliable sources in London have told Uganda Correspondent that (more…)

Britain to cut aid to anti-gay countries

By Our Online Team

31^st Oct 2011:

Tough talking British PM Cameron

The British Prime Minister, Rt. Hon. David Cameron MP has threatened to withhold UK aid from countries that do not reform legislation banning homosexuality. Mr. Cameron said he raised the issue with some of the states involved at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting [CHOGM] in Perth – Australia.

Human rights reform in the Commonwealth was one issue that leaders failed to reach agreement on at the summit. Mr Cameron says those receiving UK aid should “adhere to proper human rights”. Ending the bans on homosexuality was one of the recommendations of an internal report into (more…)

Opposition chiefs announce more protests

By Timothy Nsubuga

31^st Oct 2011:

Protesting opposition chiefs sprayed with pink dye

Just as they had done during the first wave of the ‘walk-to-work’ protests in April this year, all the leaders of Uganda’s top opposition parties have once again agreed to lend their individual political weight to the new wave of ‘walk-to-work’ protests being planned by the pressure group Activists for Change to take place across the country.

The party presidents of (more…)

70 Ugandan, Burundi troops killed in Somalia

By Our Online Team

24^th Oct 2011:

Dead Ugandan, Burundi troops in Somalia

Reports and pictures coming out of the Somali capital Mogadishu indicate that up to 70 (seventy) African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) peacekeeping troops were killed in bloody battle last week by the extremist Islamic militants Al Shabaab.

The dead troops, the majority of whom are said to be Burundian soldiers, were killed on Thursday following a battle with Al Shabab, according to Abu Omar, a commander (more…)

Museveni’s hour of reckoning is coming – Besigye

By George Murumba

24^th Oct 2011:

Museveni: Is his hour of reckoning fast approaching?

Dr. Kizza Besigye, the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) party President who was placed under “house arrest” for the entire duration of the second phase of the ‘walk-to-work’ campaign last week, has warned President Museveni to stop thinking that he can perpetually use teargas and bullets to suppress the people’s yearning for freedom, democracy, and social justice. (more…)

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