By Sharon Tibenda

22^nd Aug 2011: In what appears to be a tragic case of jumping from the proverbial “frying pun to the fire”, many eastern Uganda districts are now experiencing unusually heavy flood-causing rains (more…)

By Dennis Otim

15^th Aug 2011:

Dejavu: Are the 2007 Mabira protests about to resume

Kitgum district woman Member of Parliament Hon. Beatrice Anywar has vowed to roll up her sleeves for the second time and fight President Yoweri Museveni’s latest proposal to give away parts of Mabira forest to Sugar Corporation of Uganda Limited [SCOUL], a sugar producing company based in Lugazi along the Kampala-Jinja highway. (more…)

By Julius Odeke

15^th Aug 2011:

File Photo: Vulture homes in on starving child

An acute food shortage has hit the district of Bulambuli with a total of over 13,500 people in the district going without food for days on end.  The looming famine in the district was caused by a long dry spell that caused many food crops to suffer stunted growth.

The Uganda Red Cross Society (URCS) and local Sub-County leaders visited many acres of land which had stunted maize crops.  Some people in the affected communities actually ploughed their land but (more…)

By George Murumba

15^th Aug 2011:

The new book

The daughter of one of former Ugandan dictator Idi Amin’s many victims has written a book called ‘The Silent Sunset’ which talks about her late father Mr. Sirayo Yona Nyeko, a prominent Acholi from Kitgum who was one of the people killed in 1977 during Idi Amin’s reign of terror.

In an email to Uganda Correspondent, the author, Ms Jennifer Nyeko-Jones, who is a practising Lawyer in the United Kingdom says, “…the book is a biography of my father Sirayo Yona Nyeko, one of Amin’s victims, who we lost in 1977”.

She then sets out the things that inspired her to write ‘The Silent Sunset’. (more…)

John Stephen Katende

15^th Aug 2011:

Back to Kyeyo: Ex-Somali PM Mohamed A Mohamed

The former Prime Minister of Somali’s AU backed Transitional Federal Government [TFG] Mr. Mohamed Abdulahi Mohamed who was forced to resign his post following a Museveni brokered meeting of TFG officials in Kampala has rejoined the company he worked for in the US before he became Prime Minister, The Telegraph newspaper has reported.

In its report, (more…)

By Sharon Tibenda

15^th Aug 2011:

Libyan rebels enter Zawiyah town

Libyan revolutionary forces have entered the coastal city of Zawiyah, which is located about 50 kilometers (31 miles) west of the capital city Tripoli, according to the latest reports.  Revolutionary fighters say they entered the city on Saturday after a battle with forces loyal to ruler Muammar Gaddafi that lasted several hours, Reuters reported.

However, the Gaddafi regime (more…)

By George Murumba

15^th Aug 2011:

Right: Singer Chameleon at Kibuli Mosque on Friday

Jose Chameleon, Uganda’s top musician, has converted to Islam.  According to the moderator of the online forum Ugandans-at-Heart Mr. Abbey Semuwemba, Chameleon’s conversion to Islam “…has been received with mixed emotions among Ugandans”.

“…It has received more reaction than when former vice president Dr. Specioza Kazibwe, Jeje Odongo, and others converted to Islam”, Semuwemba added (more…)

By Timothy Nsubuga

8^th Aug 2011:

Patients treated in corridors at Mulago hospital

In perhaps one of the most courageous fetes of brutal honesty in Museveni’s Uganda, a practicing Ugandan Doctor, quite unlike the ever evasive government Ministers, has, in reference to the country’s failing health services, declared that as far as maternal health services are concerned, “…we are in a state of emergency”.

The Doctor’s declaration is (more…)