By George Murumba
17th Dec 2012:
South African police today said they had foiled a plot by suspected right-wing Afrikaner extremists targeting an African National Congress (ANC) conference (more…)
Analysis: Gay lobby risks death in Uganda
By Elijah M. Tumwebaze
10th Dec 2012:
Anti-gay protestor calls for death penalty
Uganda’s biggest tabloid newspaper The Red Pepper last week published graphic pornographic pictures of a man allegedly having gay sex with a sixteen year old boy. In just a few hours, the news had spread across the entire city like the proverbial wild fire.
It was as though something catastrophic that threatens the very survival of the republic of Uganda had just happened. Very soon, news starting trickling in that the man who (more…)
Global Fund appoints anti-corruption ‘cop’
By John Stephen Katende
10th Dec 2012:
Ministers: All accused of corruption
GENEVA – The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria last week named German national Norbert Hauser as the Interim Inspector General whose job will be to ensure that there is transparency and accountability in the management of funds disbursed to beneficiary countries like Uganda and many others in the “third world”.
Norbert Hauser, who is (more…)
World applauds convention to protect IDPs
By Timothy Nsubuga
10th Dec 2012:
IDP Camps in Northern Uganda
UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons (IDPs), Chaloka Beyani has applauded Africa leaders for passing the world’s first ever international convention to protect the rights of internally displaced persons.
Africa has “achieved a milestone and demonstrated its leadership,” Beyani said on December 6. “I believe that the significance of (more…)
Tragedy: Father’s gun kills 7-year old son
By Online Team
10th Dec 2012:
A father shot and killed his 7-year-old son last Saturday morning outside a Pennsylvania gun store in what police described as a (more…)
Mugabe wants to seize all white-owned mines
By Online Team
10th Dec 2012:
Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe has said he wants native blacks to have full control of foreign-owned mining firms operating in the country. The (more…)
No silver bullet can kill LRA – US warns
By John Stephen Katende
26th Nov 2012:
Fugitive: LRA Chief Joseph Kony
The U.S. Assistant Secretary of State (Bureau of African Affairs), Mr Jonnie Carson, has warned stakeholders involved in global initiatives to end the atrocities attributed to the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) rebels that no single silver bullet can on its own solve the LRA problem.
Mr Carson sounded the warning in Washington DC on November 17 at a ‘Global Summit on (more…)
Analysis: Inside Museveni’s foreign policy game
By Charles Ochen Okwir
26th Nov 2012:
Museveni: Shrewd Operator? FILE PHOTO
The furore that erupted when a UN Panel of Experts report accused Uganda and Rwanda of supporting Congo’s March 23rd (M23) rebels took a new twist last week when M23 captured provincial town of Goma.
The UN report alleged that while Rwanda “co-ordinated the creation of the rebel movement” and its “major military operations”, Uganda offered more “subtle support” which (more…)
Guinea leader’s luxury cars seized in France
By Online Team
26th Nov 2012:
A Paris appeals court has approved the seizure of luxury cars belonging to Equatorial Guinea leader Teodoro Obiang Nguema’s family, including such makes as (more…)
Ban Ki-Moon begs Kagame to stop M23
By John Stephen Katende
19th Nov 2012:
UN Chief Ban Ki-Moon
The UN secretary general, Ban Ki-Moon phoned Rwandan President Paul Kagame on Saturday “…to request that he use his influence on the M23 to help calm the situation and restrain M23 from continuing their attack”, according to peacekeeping chief Hervé Ladsous at UN headquarters in New York.
Reports indicated that the M23 rebels are now well-equipped with night-vision equipment and (more…)
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