By Timothy Nsubuga

10^th Dec 2012:

IDP Camps in Northern Uganda

UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons (IDPs), Chaloka Beyani has applauded Africa leaders for passing the world’s first ever international convention to protect the rights of internally displaced persons.

Africa has “achieved a milestone and demonstrated its leadership,” Beyani said on December 6.  “I believe that the significance of (more…)

By Online Team

10^th Dec 2012:

Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe has said he wants native blacks to have full control of foreign-owned mining firms operating in the country. The (more…)

By John Stephen Katende

26^th Nov 2012:

Fugitive: LRA Chief Joseph Kony

The U.S. Assistant Secretary of State (Bureau of African Affairs), Mr Jonnie Carson, has warned stakeholders involved in global initiatives to end the atrocities attributed to the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) rebels that no single silver bullet can on its own solve the LRA problem.

Mr Carson sounded the warning in Washington DC on November 17 at a ‘Global Summit on (more…)

By Charles Ochen Okwir

26^th Nov 2012:

Museveni: Shrewd Operator? FILE PHOTO

The furore that erupted when a UN Panel of Experts report accused Uganda and Rwanda of supporting Congo’s March 23^rd (M23) rebels took a new twist last week when M23 captured provincial town of Goma.

The UN report alleged that while Rwanda “co-ordinated the creation of the rebel movement” and its “major military operations”, Uganda offered more “subtle support” which (more…)

By John Stephen Katende

19^th Nov 2012: 

UN Chief Ban Ki-Moon

The UN secretary general, Ban Ki-Moon phoned Rwandan President Paul Kagame on Saturday “…to request that he use his influence on the M23 to help calm the situation and restrain M23 from continuing their attack”, according to peacekeeping chief Hervé Ladsous at UN headquarters in New York.

Reports indicated that the M23 rebels are now well-equipped with night-vision equipment and (more…)

By Online Team

19^th 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…)

By Online Team

12^th 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…)

By John Stephen Katende

5^th Nov 2012:

The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has extended the mandate of the international peacekeeping force providing support to (more…)

By Online Team

29^th 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…)

By Timothy Nsubuga

22^nd 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…)