By George Murumba

26^th Sept 2011:

Is his new fairness drive genuine?

After more than twenty five years of hearing Ugandans complaining about the inequitable distribution of the nation’s resources a.k.a ‘national cake’, President Yoweri Museveni seems to have finally listened and consequently directed Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi to “immediately” implement his executive directive.

Museveni’s directive was contained in a strongly worded letter [seen by Uganda Correspondent] to the Prime Minister and copied to all Members of Parliament.  Top among the ‘national cake’ issues to be reviewed by Amama Mbabazi is the allocation of road equipment and slots for army and police recruitment for districts. (more…)

By Timothy Nsubuga

19^th Sept 2011:

Museveni: Third worst tyrant in the world?

Foreign Policy magazine, a global publication that predominantly concerns itself with international affairs has published a list of the world’s ‘worst of the worst’ dictators and or tyrants in which our very own President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni is named as the third worst dictator on planet earth.

The list, compiled by respected Ghanian Professor George BN Ayittey, was published by Foreign Policy on (more…)

By M. Suleman

19^th Sept 2011:

Col Edison Muzoora: Controversial in life and death

The death of Col Muzoora has not only sent shock waves in Uganda, but in the Diaspora too.  In Uganda, there has been a wave arrests following Muzoora’s death.  The hasty and haphazard reaction by the government clearly shows that Museveni is determined to use the late Muzoora’s image to intimidate and weaken the opposition; both at home and in the Diaspora, especially in South Africa (more…)

By William Butt

19^th Sept 2011:

Jamal: Flew the Ugandan flag

During the TV broadcast of the Crimea Song Contest in Yalta, Ukraine, about half a billion television viewers learned something about East Africa.

As the Ugandan born Jamal was leaving the stage after his incredible performance, the legendary ex Soviet singer Alla Pugachova proclaimed in Russian to the millions of viewers from St. Petersburg to Vladivostok – “…Now we all know where Uganda is and we can feel the love which has been brought to us from that country by this incredible artist!”.

And that was putting it quite mildly.  Jamal didn’t attend Eastern Europe’s biggest music festival and Song Contest as (more…)

By John Stephen Katende

19^th Sept 2011: Global malaria deaths have dropped by about 38 per cent over the past decade, saving the lives of more than one million people, mostly (more…)

By John Stephen Katende

12^th Sept 2011:

Seated bottom right: Akaki at Oslo conference

Forum for Democratic Change [FDC] International Envoy to the United Kingdom & European Union Mr. Sam Akaki collapsed on board a Scandinavian Airways flight from Olso to London on Friday 9^th September, raising immediate fears that the top opposition ‘diplomat’ may have been poisoned by some “government hit men”.

Mr Akaki had been invited to Norway by the Norwegian Council for Africa [an organisation formed in 1964 as (more…)

By Timothy Nsubuga

12^th Sept 2011:

Museveni: Is he now a deranged buffoon?

A Rwandese newspaper the Rwanda Focus has, in its editorial of 5^th September, [See: A great pity what has happened to Museveni] expressed ‘great sadness’ that President Yoweri Museveni has “…descended to levels of incompetence and buffoonery once associated only with the likes of Mobutu, Moi, and other of that ilk”. We have judged it to be fair to do no more than reproduce the vitriolic editorial verbatim below. (more…)

By John Stephen Katende

12^th Sept 2011:

NRM-UK Chief Asiimwe at Oslo conference

The National Resistance Movement [NRM] United Kingdom Chapter Chairman Mr. Patrick Asiimwe has been accused of ‘gate-crashing’ into a conference in Oslo-Norway.  The conference was organised by the Norwegian Council for Africa to discuss the ‘Post-election Violence by Government Forces and the Prospect for Democracy in Uganda’.

Uganda Correspondent has seen a video recording of the conference on facebook in which Mr Robert Egwea, the (more…)

By George Murumba

12^th Sept 2011: The government should disclose any evidence it claims to have against the detained Kenyan human rights defender Al-Amin Kimathi or release him, (more…)

By Norman Miwambo

12^th Sept 2011: Sunday, September 11^th marked the tenth anniversary of terrorist attacks that brought down the iconic twin towers of the World Trade Centre in the centre of New York on (more…)