By George Murumba
4th February 2013:
President Yoweri Museveni has commended the Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) leadership for introducing the idea of a (more…)
250,000 twitter accounts hacked
By Online Team
4th February 2013:
Twitter confirmed on Friday last week that it had become the latest victim in a number of high-profile cyber-attacks against media companies, saying that (more…)
Flash-back: Col Ogole recounts Amin coup
By Col. John Ogole
28th January 2013:
Amin - Museveni: Who is worse?
On the 25th January 1971, the black cloud that had been hanging over Uganda from independence finally came down with devastating effects – effects that will haunt our country and its people for generations to come.
On this date, a fraction of disgruntled citizens in collaboration with some foreign exploiters toppled the democratic UPC government led by President Apollo Milton Obote.
It was a bloody coup that left horrors of utter destruction in its wake – horrors that the nascent spirit of patriotism and nationalism never survived.
The epicentre of these dastardly acts was where I worked as (more…)
Besigye rejects offer to be released
By George Murumba
28th January 2013:
Retired Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) Party President Dr Kizza Besigye on Saturday stunned police officers at (more…)
Could Amin have toppled Museveni govt?
By George Murumba
28th January 2013:
Last Friday, January 25, was the 42nd anniversary of the day the then Maj. Gen. Idi Amin Dada staged the military coup that ousted (more…)
UN plans to fight M23 rebels in Congo
By John Stephen Katende
28th January 2013:
The United Nations has declared its intention to “…set up an intervention force to fight rebels fuelling conflict in DR Congo”, a UN official has said. Meanwhile, (more…)
Amin’s British adviser Bob Astles is dead
By Norman S. Miwambo
21st Jan 2013:
Deceased: Amin Adviser Bob Astles
Former Ugandan dictator Idi Amin’s British born adviser Bob Astles has died. Astles succumbed to cancer of the rectum on December 29, 2012 – just 20 days after his last email to this reporter.
It is thirty four (34) years since Bob Astles disappeared from the public arena, and not many people knew where he was, or what he has been up to. The Hollywood movie ‘The Last King of Scotland’ starring Forest Whitaker tried its best to (more…)
Mukula conviction is persecution – Teso elders
By Timothy Nsubuga
21st Jan 2013:
Convicted of Embezzlement: Hon Mike Mukula (in suit and tie) heading to prison
A cross section of leaders, as well as ordinary people from the Teso sub-region in eastern Uganda, have reacted angrily to the conviction and (more…)
BOU denies role in 6billion NMS fraud
By Sharon Tibenda
21st Jan 2013:
The management of Bank of Uganda (BOU) has denied any wrong doing in the 6billion corruption scandal that recently rocked the (more…)
LRA victims rehabilitation centre to close
By Sharon Tibenda
21st Jan 2013:
One of the only two remaining reception centres in northern Uganda helping reintegrate former members of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) is (more…)
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