M23 rebels start talks with Kabila govt in Kampala

By John Stephen Katende

22nd Oct 2012:

Africa Confidential magazine has revealed that indirect talks have commenced in the Ugandan capital Kampala between the M23 rebels based in North Kivu and the Kinshasa based government led by President Joseph Kabila. (more…)


Rights Abuses: Ugandan seeks British intervention

By Norman Miwambo

15th Oct 2012:

L-R: Semitego & British Foreign Secretary William Hague

London based opposition activist Richard Semitego has petitioned the top leadership of the British Conservative Party (which is the majority party in the ruling coalition with the Liberal Democrats) to reign in President Museveni’s government for its human rights abuses in both Uganda and the Great Lakes region of Africa.

Semitego, who is the Chairperson of Uganda Federal Front, a UK based opposition outfit, met the UK’s Secretary of State for (more…)


Uganda@50: Colonial officers reserve judgement

By Charles Ochen Okwir

15th Oct 2012:

Guests at the London event - October 6

London – The bright autumn day of October 6 was only matched by their silver-white grey hair, and perhaps, one might add – the nostalgic warmth that exudes from their beaming faces whenever they bumped into anyone who looked Ugandan in their piercing blue eyes.

Here, at The Royal Over-Seas League, located in the middle of London’s posh (more…)


Uganda deploys soldiers at Kenyan border

By Online Team

15th Oct 2012:

The government of Uganda has deployed military personnel to its border with Kenya in a bid to (more…)


Walk-to-Work to be discussed in Oslo

By Online Team

15th Oct 2012:

The year 2011 saw dramatic changes in Africa’s governance landscape. Unprecedented popular demonstrations in Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya led to the overturning of a century of autocratic rule in (more…)


BBC World News turns spotlight on Kenya

By John Stephen Katende

15th Oct 2012:

BBC World News will, in the run-up to the Kenyan general elections in March 2013, turn the spotlight on the East African country to explore the surprising and yet the inspiring stories of what’s (more…)


Army storms Besigye’s home at midnight

By Sharon Tibenda

8th Oct 2012:

Gate to Besigye's residence

A combined force of heavily armed soldiers, police officers, and plain cloth security operatives, have, in a tragic twist, used the midnight cover of darkness to break into and violently storm the residence of Dr. Kizza Besigye, the president of the leading opposition party Forum for Democratic Change (FDC).

The purpose of the violent midnight raid wasn’t immediately clear (more…)


Batoro petition Museveni over persecution

By George Murumba

8th Oct 2012:

King Oyo Nyimba Kabamba Iguru’s Toro Kingdom has officially petitioned President Yoweri Museveni over what the Kingdom considers to be (more…)


UPDF Chopper Crash: Was it ‘Mission Impossible’

By Charles Ochen Okwir

8th Oct 2012:

Mombasa, Kenya: On the night of August 12, three Ugandan army Mi-24 helicopter gunships operating under the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) umbrella crashed in (more…)


Archbishop Tutu wins $1m Mo Ibrahim Prize

By John Stephen Katende

8th Oct 2012:

Retired Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa has won a $1m award for “speaking truth to power”.  The Mo Ibrahim Foundation, a London-based charitable organisation that has (more…)


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I will throw a hot stone behind CJ Odoki’s back
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The late Mzee Kaguta was a naughty boy
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2013/2/26

Museveni is pathological hypocrite
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2013/2/3

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2013/2/3

NRM revolution is eating its own children
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2013/1/27

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2013/1/27

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Museveni is right to call NRM MPs idiots
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