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Poverty levels still high in Uganda
1st December, 2005
According to the Human Development report released recently, poverty levels have continued to rise, from 35 percent in 1998 to 38 percent in 2003. The gap between the rich and the poor has also widened
Besigye contests trial by Court Martial
1st December, 2005
Dr. Kizza Besigye's court case challenging his trial in the court Martial has kicked off. According to the application made by his lawyers Mohammed Mbabazi and John Matovu, the FDC president wants the proceedings of the Court Martial stopped and an order stopping General Elly Tumwine (the court chairman) and his panel from sitting in the court. The lawyers also want an order for Besigye's release as well as costs to the suit.
Mao to stand in 2006
1st December, 2005
Democratic Party member Norbert Mao is the latest entrant to the 2006 presidential race. Mao will run as an independent after failing to secure DP's party presidency, which would have made him the party's flag bearer at next year's presidential elections.
Otti wants talks
1st December, 2005
THE Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) deputy commander, Vincent Otti, has said the rebels were ready to hold talks with the Government to end the 19-year insurgency that has ravaged the north.
Netherlands cuts aid to Uganda
1st December, 2005
The Netherlands has cut its budget support to Uganda this year by 27% or (six million Euros) over concerns about the political transition and budgetary indiscipline, an embassy statement has said.
Budget support is aid given to the Government that is not specific to particular projects but is employed in favour of agreed sectors. In Uganda’s case most budgetary aid goes to support the Poverty Eradication Action Plan, whose major priority areas are roads, health and education. Last financial year which ended in June, budgetary support from the Netherlands stood at Euros 21.9m but has now been slashed to Euros 15.9m. The six million saved will be diverted to humanitarian assistance in northern Uganda.
MPs’ murder trial opens
30th Nov 2005
MPs Reagan Okumu and Mike Ocula yesterday pleaded not guilty to charges of murdering Pabbo LC3 chairman, as the trial opened at the High Court in Kampala. Lack of an Acholi interpreter for the other three co-accused failed the hearing of the first witness in the case, a former LRA rebel. Justice John Bosco Katutsi adjourned the hearing to today to enable court get an interpreter for the three non-English-speaking accused persons.
UN to step up support for
Uganda's 2 million displaced people
21 Nov 2005
The United Nations system in Uganda is planning to increase its presence and programmes in northern Uganda in the coming year to help some 2 million Ugandans displaced by Africa’s longest running conflict, according to Dennis McNamara, Special Advisor on Displacement to the UN Emergency Relief Coordinator
Police Raid Monitor Over FDC Advert
November 19, 2005
As many as 20 armed policemen and intelligence personnel besieged the offices of Monitor Publications Ltd in Industrial Area for close to two hours on Thursday night. The officers led by the Commissioner in Charge of Crime, Edson Mbiringi, and Kampala Regional CID officer George Kanonko, stormed the premises, which houses Daily Monitor, Sunday Monitor, and 933 KFM, shortly after 11:00pm. They demanded the source of posters calling for contributions to Dr Kizza Besigye’s Human Rights Fund.
Uganda worst place on earth for children
10 November 2005
“An entire society - the Acholi - is being systematically destroyed –physically, culturally, socially and economically – in full view of the international community. This has been going on non-stop for almost 20 years but Western governments have turned a blind eye to a pliant regime and dictatorship under President Museveni that practices genocide,” Mr Otunnu said.
Joint
probe team to resume investigations on Garang crash
Oct 11, 2005 (KHARTOUM) — The joint probe team investigating the plane
crash of the former First Vice President John Garang, which includes Sudan,
Uganda, Kenya and USA, will resume its work which began two months ago,
tomorrow in Kampala.
Sudan
gives Uganda free rein to chase LRA
Oct 10, 2005 (KAMPALA) — Sudan will temporarily allow Ugandan troops to
chase internationally wanted leaders of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA)
anywhere across the border where they may be hiding, Uganda’s military
said on Monday.
No
to Ugandan army in the Southern Sudan
One is deeply disturbed to learn that, Sudan has one more time committed
another mistake of allowing Uganda Peoples Defense Force (UPDF) to pursue
LRA on our soil. LRA has been fighting in Uganda for many years. It has
been fighting against its government not Sudan for many years. During
the past years of its struggle, it has not crossed to Sudan to cause havoc.
Acholi
Leaders Support ICC Move On Kony
ACHOLI leaders have said they support the move by the International Criminal
Court to issue arrest warrants for five LRA rebel leaders for war crimes
in northern Uganda.
Take Action Now!!
From fdcuganda.blogspot.com
It has been confirmed now, that Uganda's most daring journalist Andrew
Mwenda will be produced in court on Monday morning 15 Sept. 2005 around
10:00AM Uganda time. The opposition youth groups under G6 are organizing
a demonstration on that date to voice our grievances on the attack on
media freedom: Closure of Kfm in particular and the arrest of A. Mwenda
by the shameless M7 government.
FDC
MSN Group
FDC
PRESS STATEMENT
7 Oct '05
We received information that Dr. Kizza Besigye is not on the Voters Register.
We have crosschecked with the records and confirmed that his name does
not appear in the records where he registered in Rukungiri Town Council,
Southern Ward. This morning we met the Secretary, Electoral Commission,
Mr. Sam Rwakojo who confirmed that not only Dr. Besigye, but any other
person who did not re-register will not qualify as a Voter let alone a
candidate in the forthcoming elections.
Uganda
executes convicts on political basis, says report
Oct 11, '05
A NEW study on human rights violations in Uganda has revealed that the
death penalty is used selectively on the people in the country, basing
on their political, religious or social standing.
ICC
Kony warrant a big test for Sudan
October 10, '05
Sometime last year, the UPDF announced a major victory against the Lord's
Resistance Army; they had captured Joseph Kony's Kaunda suit. Having been
deprived of pride and attire, it seemed the rebel leader, naked and trembling
in his gumboots, was about to be captured. Kony, with more wits and an
extra set of clothes, escaped to kill another day.
Tonite on
Andrew Mwenda Live
The Human Right Watch report accuses UPDF of crime against civilians in
northern Uganda. [ Part I , II , III , IV]
(Requires Real Player)
Mystery
of the missing three million voters: Rigging begins?
No one seems to know just how many voters we have on the Register. Good
thing if you are keen on rigging
Amnesty
Commission opposes warrant arrests for LRA’s Kony
THE Amnesty Commission chairman, Justice Peter Onega,
has opposed the decision by the International Criminal Court (ICC) to
issue a warrant of arrest for five top LRA rebels, saying the ruling would
jeopardise the commission's work.
Milton
Obote
On 11 October, Obote died of kidney
failure in a hospital in Johannesburg, South Africa
The former President of Uganda, Milton Obote, has died at the age of
80. Mr Obote took Uganda to independence from Britain in 1962, but was
overthrown nine years later by an army officer, Idi
Amin. He returned to power in 1980. However, the other political
parties believed the elections were rigged, leading to guerilla rebellion
by Yoweri
Museveni's National Resistance Army and several other military groups
and fled to Zambia in 1985, where he remained in exile until his death.
A
war that is a scar in Museveni’s conscience
Since 1986 when Yoweri Museveni’s National
Resistance Army (NRA) seized power, the people of northern Uganda
have suffered as victims of a war between the two warring sides with
both sides responsible for countless acts of blood thirst, torture,
mutilation, abduction and displacement et cetera.
Crisis
of integrity in Uganda’s leadership
The extent to which Uganda’s leaders deceive, manipulate and fleece
the people they are supposed to lead has assumed crisis levels. Ordinarily,
leaders are supposed to be the role models of their societies. In fact,
the Constitution provides that the President shall be the “fountain
of honour”. Yet, you find the President, Ministers, MPs and other national
leaders liberally lying in front of cameras. I have been provoked to
express my dismay by comments published in the Monitor of 13th July
2005.
History
of Uganda
Ministry
of Defence response to Human Rights Watch Report
The Government of Uganda is appalled by the latest report of Human Rights
Watch ‘Uprooted and Forgotten: Impunity and Human Rights Abuses in Northern
Uganda’ and rejects its conclusions as being unfounded, partisan and
politically motivated.
Human
rights in Uganda
Respect for human rights in Uganda has been advanced significantly since
the mid-1980s. There are, however, numerous areas which continue to
attract concern. The conflict in the north continues to generate reports
of abuses by both the rebel Lord's Resistance Army and the Uganda People's
Defence Force. Torture continues to be a widespread practice amongst
security organisations. Attacks on political freedom in the country,
including the arrest and beating of opposition Members of Parliament,
has led to international criticism, culminating in May 2005 in a decision
by the British government to withhold part of its aid to the country.
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