Gerald Kankya, an activist working with the Twerwaneho Listeners Club (TLC), a community based governance organization in Fort-Portal, Western Uganda and a host of other activists were allegedly attacked, assaulted and battered by about 30 club wielding men along Lugard Road in Fort Portal town on the afternoon of 23rd January 2015. Kankya says that […]
The President of Uganda, Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has told farmers to abandon their traditional ways of farming saying they have no place in the modern age. While flagging off the construction of Andibo Valley Dam in Pakwach, Nebbi district Museveni cautioned people from the West Nile Sub-Region against sticking to old farming methods which are […]
President Yoweri Museveni has congratulated the leaders of the South Sudan political Party, the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM), for signing a reunification agreement. “I congratulate the SPLM group for signing the agreement to re-unite your party,” he said adding that the act makes the peace process in Addis Ababa even better. The President paid […]
In August this year the Deputy Speaker of Uganda Parliament, Jacob Oulanyah was in thrust in the eye of the storm when he presided over the passing of the Public Order Management Bill, which many people in Uganda and human rights activists around the world branded illegal and draconian since it gave the Uganda […]
There are several reports in the local and foreign media that Ugandan government commits arbitrary or unlawful killings. According to media records available within and outside Uganda, Uganda’s Special Security Forces use excessive force and live ammunitions during joint security operations in various districts such as Kampala, Masaka, Jinja, Wakiso among others resulting into deaths. […]
Uganda is a constitutional republic led since 1986 by Gen. Yoweri Museveni of the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) party, whom many people in Uganda now believe has turned into a ‘total dictator.’ Sections of Ugandans reelected him president to a fourth five-year term in February 2011. The 2011 elections were marred by irregularities. State […]
Somalis fleeing serial killers in Mogadishu, insurgency, hunger, diseases and poor living conditions in Somalia are pouring into neighbouring Kenya where they later cross into Uganda at an average of 6000 per month. The entrance of refugees from Somalia is swelling what is already the world’s refugee population. Thirteen years of civil conflict in Somalia […]
Mogadishu-Ethiopian troops have undertaken military intelligence reconnaissance operations in wracked Somalia but the country is not planning to engage in battle gun quarrel with the Al Shabaab militants. Sources in Somalia say that Ethiopia has no plans to go back on a fighting mission but the redeployment is only for reconnaissance intelligence missions. Ethiopia is […]
It now seems the UPDF procurement has been streamlined. Gone are the days when the Ugandan army could buy junk helicopters, fighter jets and battle tanks among others. The latest we have heard from Uganda army circles is the procurement of the best army equipment including brand new fighter jets from Russia. Other army equipment […]
Today I spent over two hours at the ministry of internal affairs with Gen. Aronda Nyakairima. We were discussing a number of issues in his ministry. During our long discussion, I discovered more who Gen. Aronda Nyakairima is and I now bring his true face to you, my dear readers, I am Walakira Nyanzi. President […]