Uganda Correspondent

Kayumba shooting: Rwanda summons SA Envoy

By Timothy Nsubuga – 12^th-18^th July 2010

Gen. Kayumba

The New Times, a Rwandese daily English newspaper reported on 7^th July 2010 that the Rwandan government had summoned South Africa’s High Commissioner to Rwanda Gladstone Dumisani Gwadiso to express what the paper said were the Rwanda government’s concerns over the manner in which investigations into the shooting of renegade Gen. Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa are being conducted. “I summoned the Ambassador to express serious concerns in terms of how the investigations are being conducted. (more…)

Final part of Ogole’s “Luwero” interview

5^th–11^th July 2010

UC: Is it true that Museveni wanted you extradited from Tanzania to come and face trial in Uganda?

Col. Ogole: The other thing people do not know is that Museveni did not only unfairly label me the “Butcher of Luwero”. For nearly ten years from the time he seized power, he directed his propaganda machinery on me and spent huge sums of taxpayers’ money in an attempt to soil my name. (more…)

Weekly News Round-up

Uganda’s main media houses last week reported a number of important issues that Uganda Correspondent feels its weekly readers deserves to know about if they missed. Read excerpts from those stories in our news round-up here. (more…)

DRC fuel tanker victims buried

5^th-11^th July 2010

By Our Staff Writer

DRC Fuel Tanker Victims

The BBC has reported that bodies of scores of people killed in a fuel truck explosion in the Democratic Republic of Congo [DRC] have been buried in mass graves. At least 230 people were killed when the overturned oil tanker exploded and sparked a fire in Sange village. Some of those who died were trying to collect leaking fuel but others were trapped inside buildings, including a cinema, by the blaze. UN peacekeepers, aid workers and troops have been helping the injured. The truck overturned in the village of Sange as it tried to overtake a minibus. (more…)

The Ogole interview on Luwero war: Part 1 of 2

28.06.2010

UC: How and when exactly did you get involved in the Luwero war?

Col. Ogole: Let us first get the basic facts out of the way. The Luwero war was Museveni’s creation. The government I served didn’t start that war; it merely responded, as it was indeed constitutionally enjoined to do, to the threat to national security that such a war inevitably posed. But what most people have failed to appreciate all this time is that Yoweri Kaguta Museveni did not start his war against Ugandans from Luwero in 1981. Neither did he start it because the 1980 elections had been stolen. (more…)

IPC sets up another branch in the UK

28.06.2010

By Our London Reporter

The Inter Party Cooperation [IPC], a loose coalition of Ugandan opposition parties that wants to unseat President Museveni’s ruling NRM government in the general elections scheduled for February 2011 seems to be on a relentless forward march. The partners in the IPC, it will be recalled, are the Forum for Democratic Change [FDC], Uganda People’s Congress [UPC], the Conservative Party [CP], Jeema, and the Social Democratic Party [SDP]; the last to have joined the alliance. (more…)

Michael Jackson makes $1billion in death

28.06.2010

By Our Staff Writer

Michael Jackson, the so-called “King of Pop” who died on the 25^th of June 2009 aged 50, must be smiling in his grave. Jackson’s estate has made more than $1bn since his death a year ago, according to estimates by trade paper Billboard. The magazine says Jackson’s album sales have generated about $383m, while revenue from the film This Is It has hit nearly $400m. Profits from publishing rights, licensing and touring are also included in the total. (more…)

Rwanda arrests opposition protesters

By Our Staff Writer

Kigali-Rwanda, June 24^th 2010. Sources in the Rwandan capital Kigali say that police have today arrested dozens of opposition protesters as the country’s President Gen. Paul Kagame presented his nomination papers for re-election to the National Election Commission. Kagame, who has been in or around the centre of political power in Rwanda since 1994 when his RPF/RPA guerrilla force took power, is widely expected to secure a second seven-year term in the country’s forthcoming elections scheduled for 9^th August 2010. (more…)

The Ogole interview: Part 1

UC: Colonel, for nearly a quarter of a century, you have maintained a very loud silence on Ugandan politics. What have you been up to?

Col. Ogole: I left Uganda bare-handed to start a new life as a refugee. Like most refugees, I had to rationalise almost every aspect of my life to create an uninterrupted period that would enable me settle down and mature into my newly acquired second exile life. It has been very painful. (more…)

“IPC Volunteers Corps” launch campaign for change

By Our Staff Writer

The social networking site facebook is fast becoming a rich political mobilisation ground for Uganda’s top most politicians; especially the main party leaders. Museveni, Besigye, Otunnu, Mao, Muntu and a few lesser mortals all have some sort of presence on facebook. In the last few weeks, a hitherto unheard of organisation calling itself “The IPC Volunteers Corps” has also joined the fray. (more…)

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