By Dennis Otim
18th February 2013:
Tough: Gen Omar Bashir
The official Spokesman of Sudan’s ruling National Congress Party (NCP) Mr Badr al-Deen Ibrahim has declared that as far as Sudan is concerned, “…Uganda is now classified as an enemy state, adding that they have no mutual interests with Kampala.”
In a statement published in The Sudan Tribune newspaper last week, Ibrahim also said Uganda is not (more…)
By Shanta Devarajan
18th February 2013:
From almost every point of view, Rwanda’s performance over the past decade has been an unambiguous success story. Between (more…)
By Online Team
18th February 2013:
London – Britain called on Chad on Saturday to arrest Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir while he visits N’Djamena for a (more…)
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…)
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…)
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…)
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…)
By Dennis Otim
21st Jan 2013:
The UN Security Council has denounced the recent hostage taking by a group of militants at a remote natural gas facility in eastern Algeria. According to (more…)
By George Murumba
17th Dec 2012:
Conservative President Museveni
President Yoweri Museveni has said Uganda “…cannot accept the promotion of homosexuality as if it’s a good thing.” The president however also said gay people should not be killed or persecuted, as MPs continue to consider a controversial Anti-Homosexuality Bill.
The original version of the Bill stipulated the death penalty for some homosexual acts, but this has reportedly been dropped. According to the BBC’s Catherine Byaruhanga, the president was careful to (more…)
By Charles Ochen Okwir
17th Dec 2012:
On October 17, 2012, the UN Panel of Experts accused Uganda and Rwanda (for the second time) of supporting Congo’s M23 rebel movement led by (more…)
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