By Online Team
19th Nov 2012:
An appellate court in Rwanda should overturn the prison sentence handed to the editor of a private weekly on Wednesday last week, (more…)
UPDF mission to capture Kony doomed
By Online Team
12th Nov 2012:
The military option adopted by the Uganda Peoples Defence Forces (UPDF) to either capture or kill the elusive Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) rebel leader Joseph Kony is doomed, (more…)
Security Council extends AMISOM mandate
By John Stephen Katende
5th Nov 2012:
The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has extended the mandate of the international peacekeeping force providing support to (more…)
Uganda threatens to pull out of Somalia
By Online Team
29th Oct 2012:
The government of Uganda threatened last week to pull out of ongoing international peacekeeping and security operations in Somalia, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and (more…)
UPDF implicated in rape of 5000 women
By Timothy Nsubuga
22nd Oct 2012:
DRC women: Are they targeted by UPDF rapists?
The Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF), together with their Rwandese counterparts the Rwanda Patriotic Army (RPA) have gone on the rampage in Eastern Congo, raping and abusing Congolese women and girls, an NGO worker has claimed.
In a moving interview with the BBC, (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…)
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…)
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