By George Murumba

10^th Oct 2011:

UFA Boss Kamya: Eyes fixed on 2016 elections

Less than a year after the last general elections were concluded, Uganda Federal Alliance [UFA] Party President Ms Beti Namisango Kamya has launched an early campaign to raise funds to finance UFA’s mass mobilisation and recruitment activities ahead of the next general elections scheduled for 2016.

In an email dated 7^th October which Uganda Correspondent has seen, (more…)

By John Stephen Katende

10^th Oct 2011: The decision to award the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize to three women, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkul Karman, recognizes that (more…)

By Timothy Nsubuga

3^rd Oct 2011:

Besigye, Mukula united by term limits

In a surprise move that is unlikely to please the ruling National Resistance Party [NRM] boss President Yoweri Museveni, Forum for Democratic Change [FDC] Party President Dr. Kiiza Besigye has praised Museveni’s Vice Chairman for eastern region ‘Capt’. Mike Mukula for his expression of support for the opposition-led campaign to restore presidential term limits to Uganda’s constitution.

“…Mukula is right to demand for (more…)

By George Murumba

3^rd Oct 2011:

Museveni, Mugabe: Birds of the same feather?

In a clear sign that age and fatigue may be finally catching up with them, two of Africa’s longest serving ‘revolutionary rulers’ or psychotic tyrants to their critics, have in the last two weeks checked into medical facilities in the Asian sub-continent for treatment.

Zimbabwe’s 87 year old President Robert Mugabe was reported to have flown to Singapore for a medical check-up, (more…)

By M. Suleman

3^rd Oct 2011:

Accused: Police Chief Gen. Kale Kayihura

The month of ‘September’, it appears, is a month that will not only be significant to millions of Americans, but for billions of other people on the planet, including Ugandans.  Over the years, the things that have happened in the month of ‘September’ will never be forgotten.

‘September’ 11^th 2001 was of course the day when the twin towers in New York were brought down by (more…)

By John Stephen Katende

3^rd Oct 2011: The UN Security Council on Sept 30^th called on the African Union (AU) to urgently increase the strength of its peacekeeping force in Somalia (AMISOM) to its mandated level of 12,000 to enable it (more…)

By Sharon Tibenda

3^rd Oct 2011: The ex-wife of Nelson Mandela Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, a veteran ANC member in her own right, has attacked her party’s disciplinary process in the recent case involving (more…)

By Timothy Nsubuga

26^th Sept 2011:

The 'ethnic' Generals keeping Museveni in power?

Whether it was justifiable or not, a great number of Ugandans raised a blaring alarm of concern about the ‘ethnic army’ that President Museveni unveiled to the world when he blasted his way into power on the 26^th [some say 25^th] of January 1986.

One of Museveni’s acclaimed early strengths was that as a leader, he had his fingers on the pulse of the nation.  His reaction to the nation’s pulse however (more…)

By John Stephen Katende

26^th Sept 2011:

Are they toasting Kagame's 'Gold Award'?

New York – Rwandan President Maj. General Paul Kagame has put his more senior Ugandan counterpart General Yoweri Museveni to great shame after he [Kagame] won the coveted United Nation’s ‘Gold Award’ for great ‘forest promotion policies’.  For the context, it should be noted that while Uganda has been at it for decades, Rwanda only initiated its forestry programme in 2004. (more…)