By Timothy Nsubuga
30th July 2012:
M23 rebel warlord Gen. Bosco Ntaganda
A senior diplomat at the embassy of the Democratic Republic of Congo [DRC] in London has accused President Yoweri Museveni of joining his Rwandan counterpart Paul Kagame in offering military and logistical support to the so-called ‘March 23rd’ [or M23] rebels who are fighting to overthrow President Joseph Kabila’s government.
The Congolese diplomat, who (more…)
By Sharon Tibenda
30th July 2012:
An outbreak of the Ebola virus has killed 14 people in western Uganda this month, health ministry officials said, ending weeks of speculation about an unknown illness that had (more…)
By George Murumba
30th July 2012:
President Yoweri Museveni has called for a Euro-Africa summit to develop common ideas of cooperation, adding that there are a lot of unexploited opportunities between Europe and Africa that can (more…)
By Dennis Otim
30th July 2012:
In yet another move that signals the West’s increased interest in the security affairs of the Great Lakes Region of Africa, the British government has donated high spec electronic detectors to Uganda. (more…)
By Online Team
30th July 2012:
The mastermind of a white supremacist plot to kill Nelson Mandela, South Africa’s first black president, has been convicted of treason. A Pretoria court ruled last week that (more…)
By John Stephen Katende
30th July 2012:
The British government has taken its first official and perhaps most visible steps to join Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia and Burundi in the war against Somalia’s Islamic militants al-Shabab who are (more…)
By Online Team
30th July 2012:
A nine-day meeting kicked off in the Somali capital Mogadishu last week where an 825-member assembly is set to ratify a new constitution. Somalia’s National Constituent Assembly (NCA), selected by (more…)
By Online Team
23rd July 2012:
Gen. Museveni: Autocratic leader?
One of Britain’s top newspapers, The Telegraph, has accused the British government under Prime Minister David Cameron’s leadership of pouring aid into an autocratic Uganda led by President Yoweri Museveni. In his piece, the author David Blair said:
To hold an opposition rally in Uganda is to run the gauntlet of riot police laden with rubber batons and tear gas who lurk at key junctions across the capital, Kampala. (more…)
By Sharon Tibenda
23rd July 2012:
President Yoweri Museveni has urged teachers to train students in skills that would help them survive in future. In a speech at the centenary celebrations for Mbarara High School, which was held under the theme (more…)
By Online Team
23rd July 2012:
Guor Marial is, by any standards, a talented athlete. The South-Sudanese refugee qualified for the Olympics last October after meeting the Olympic “A” standard with a run of (more…)
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