By George Murumba

13^th Dec 2010

Museveni's political asset?

Self-styled Field Marshal Idi Amin has been dead for years.  But according to some analysts, Amin has made a dramatic come-back from the beneath the grave to join President Museveni’s 2011 election campaigns.

President Yoweri Museveni’s critics claim that he and his cadres deliberately suggest that a vote for change in the February polls could mean the return of merciless military rule, like Amin’s 1971-1979 tenure.

“…The National Resistance Movement knows how to manage the army”, Museveni said on November 18^th at a campaign rally in northern Uganda.  He then reminded the crowd of his role in toppling “Field Marshall” Amin, who was forced into exile in 1979 – after a brutally unpredictable rule during which around 300 000 people were killed. Amin died in Saudi Arabia in 2003.

“…I was here in 1973 fighting Amin. (more…)

By Sharon S. Tibenda

13^th Dec 2010

DP Boss Norbert Mao

DP’s presidential candidate Norbert Mao on Friday 10^th finally released his party’s “Buganda Campaign Strategy” in Kampala while meeting party members from Buganda region.

Mao said his campaigns in Buganda would henceforth be conducted jointly with DP’s party flag-bearers for various posts. “…When I start campaigns here I would wish to see all DP candidates at all levels. We shall move village to village together”, Mao said.

He added that while his party had attracted considerable support in other regions, Buganda remained its stronghold (more…)

By Dennis Otim

13^th Dec 2010

Brig. Charles Otema

The UPDF’s Brig. Charles Otema Awany has been named again as a suspect in the ‘extra-judicial killing’ of Mr. Peter Oloya, an opposition activist who was shot dead under mysterious circumstances in Gulu Central Prison.

The revelations are contained in the diplomatic cables published on the WikiLeaks website.  The cables say that in 2003, the High Court of Uganda “…described Mr. Oloya’s death as “a blatant case of extra judicial killing”. (more…)

By John Stephen Katende

13^th Dec 2010

An archive of Rwanda’s genocide is being unveiled in the Rwandan capital, Kigali, the BBC has reported.  (more…)

By Sharon S. Tibenda

13^th Dec 2010

William Hague

British Foreign Secretary William Hague told the British Parliament last week that his government plans to ‘reinvigorate the Commonwealth’, Uganda Correspondent can reveal.

In a statement, Mr. Hague said “…Her Majesty’s Government have undertaken to strengthen the United Kingdom’s relationship with the Commonwealth and to (more…)

By John Stephen Katende

13^th Dec 2010

The African Union has suspended Ivory Coast following the hotly disputed presidential election in the West African nation. (more…)

By Timothy Nsubuga

6^th Dec 2010

File Photo, Govt trained militias pass out in Kayunga

The ruling NRM government is unlawfully recruiting and deploying tens of thousands of armed militiamen in different parts of the country, the IPC has said.

The apparent trend has sent alarm bells ringing within the opposition who say it is a pre-emptive move by the NRM in anticipation of demonstrations against malpractices during next year’s elections.

According to a press release (more…)

By Timothy Nsubuga

6^th Dec 2010

File Photo, Dr. Kizza Besigye at a rally in Kasese

The IPC’s presidential candidate Dr. Kizza Besigye has strongly warned President Yoweri Museveni against imitating the defeated Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo by refusing to hand over power when he loses the 2011 elections.

The Background:

A serious political crisis broke out in Ivory Coast last week when the ‘Constitutional Council’ overruled a declaration by the country’s (more…)

By George Murumba

6^th Dec 2010

Chief Justice Odoki

The results of the just concluded Guinean elections have dramatically put both President Yoweri Museveni’s and Ugandan Chief Justice Benjamin Odoki’s Supreme Court records to shame.

Both the losing Guinean presidential candidate and the Supreme Court of Guinea have shown their Ugandan counterparts that they have the guts and audacity to err decisively on the side of genuine democratic development in Guinea.

According to Guinea’s Supreme Court, (more…)

By Our Staff Writer

6^th Dec 2010

UPC Boss Dr. Otunnu

A group calling itself “Uganda 2011 Free and Fair Elections – Campaign Group (International Division)” has launched an online petition to help UPC party President Dr. Olara Otunnu gather the five million “anti-Kiggundu EC signatures” he is looking for.

Dr. Vincent Magombe, a London based Ugandan Journalist who appears to be closely associated with the new campaign group told Uganda Correspondent that (more…)