By Timothy Nsubuga

22^nd Nov 2010

Pope Benedict XVI

After decades of fierce opposition to the use of all contraception, the Pope Benedict has ended the Catholic Church’s absolute ban on the use of condoms.

The Pontiff said it was acceptable to use a prophylactic when the sole intention was to “…reduce the risk of infection” from Aids.  While he restated the Catholic Church’s staunch objections to contraception because it believes that it interferes with the creation of life, he argued that using a condom to preserve life and avoid death could be a responsible act – even outside marriage.

Asked whether the Catholic Church is not fundamentally against the use of condoms, he replied, (more…)

By Timothy Nsubuga

15^th Nov 2010

File photo, Dr.Kizza Besigye

Dr. Kizza Besigye, the IPC’s Presidential candidate, has adopted a very effective method of delivering his campaign messages.

Besigye’s new campaign style is simple too:  Using information passed to him by his formidable research team, Dr. Besigye is now finding it easy to directly link Museveni’s failures to the unique problems affecting the local people he addresses.

At a campaign rally (more…)

By John Stephen Katende

15^th Nov 2010

Thomas Harding

A British Journalist has predicted that Uganda will be engulfed in a serious political crisis that will force the army to overthrow the government.

Sounding very much like Ugandan Journalist Timothy Kalyegira and his ‘seer’ stories, The Telegraph’s defence correspondent Thomas Harding envisages a situation where both British commercial interests in Uganda and the insurgency in volatile DRC will spill over into Uganda to force impoverished Ugandans into an uprising. (more…)

By George Murumba

15^th Nov 2010

A famous Member of Parliament who subscribes to Museveni’s ruling NRM-O party has admitted that his party is very worried by Besigye’s popularity, Uganda Correspondent can reveal. (more…)

By Sharon S. Tibenda

15^th Nov 2010

The last of the six men who founded the Democratic Party, Uganda’s oldest party over fifty years ago, has died. (more…)

By Sharon S. Tibenda

15^th Nov 2010

A growing number of Ugandan girls, some merely 11yrs old, are being lured by pimps to the buzzing Southern Sudan capital Juba to ‘work’ as prostitutes. (more…)

By George Murumba

8^th Nov 2010

Uganda's Chief Justice

A senior High Court Judge has said the law needs to be changed to empower courts to ban convicted election thieves from elective politics for life, Uganda Correspondent can reveal.

Speaking to Uganda Correspondent on condition of anonymity at his Chambers within the High Court buildings in Kampala, the Judge, who says he has presided over many election petitions, said it is scandalous to allow election thieves to participate immediately after their conviction.

“…It is scandalous. (more…)

By Sharon S. Tibenda

8^th Nov 2010

Al-Shabab militants

A senior official of the Mujahidin Movement Al-Shabab has vowed that his group will wage war on the people of Uganda and Burundi to revenge for the killings that the two armies allegedly carried out against innocent civilians in Somalia.

Speaking to hundreds of people at Dabaqyayn Mosque in Mogadishu’s Huriwaa District where a seminar for Mogadishu’s traditional elders was concluded last week, Shaykh Fu’ad Muhammad Khalaf aka “Shongole” threatened that his group will soon carry out attacks on Burundi and Uganda. (more…)

By John Stephen Katende

8^th Nov 2010

ICC's Chief Prosecutor Ocampo

The International Criminal Court’s [ICC’s] long arm of criminal justice against suspected perpetrators of war crimes and crimes against humanity in Africa will be critically discussed at a conference in Oslo-Norway.

The conference, due to take place on the 20^th of November has been organised by the Africa Centre for Information and Development [ACID] in collaboration with the Norwegian Social Forum.  The theme of the conference will be “Addressing Impunity & Human Rights Abuses in Sub-Saharan Africa:  The Role of the International Criminal Court”.

The idea behind the conference is (more…)

By Timothy Nsubuga

8^th Nov 2010

Accused LRA rebels

The Lord’s Resistance Army [LRA] rebels have among other armed groups been accused of harassing civilians in Southern Sudan.

On her first full day of a six-day mission to Sudan, Ms. Valerie Amos, the UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordination said, “…harassment and violence against humanitarian workers is unacceptable and I am concerned for their security”. (more…)