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Museveni’s former ally reveals bush war secrets

Yesterday our reporters attended the book launch “betrayed by my leader” written by Hon. Maj. John Kazoora, a former NRA guerrilla war combatant now turned opposition. The author is currently the Forum for Democratic Change’s (FDC) secretary for defence and security. Maj. Kazoora is also former Member of Parliament for Kashari County in Mbarara district […]

Electoral commission bitter over government interference into its operations

The electoral commission has noted with concern the incidents that happened in Kasese district woman MP polls and other Local Council by elections across the country. On Saturday 11th August, 2012, the Kasese district returning officer, Kanzira Tumwesigye and the assistant returning officer, Jacqueline Atuhairwe, were arrested by Uganda police allegedly on election-related fraud. The […]

FDC to collapse after Besigye quit

Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) may collapse after the retirement of its party president, Col. Kiiza Besigye, presidential press secretary, Tamale Mirundi says. Tamale Mirundi was overheard on Wednesday on Entebbe road as saying that ‘FDC will not continue being stronger and focused after Col. Kiiza Besigye’s ‘downfall.’ “And indeed FDC members should now get […]

Uganda’s Inspector General of Police dies in UK

The inspector general of Uganda police, Gen. Kale Kayihura has officiallt announced the death of assistant inspector general of police, Richard Bisherurwa who passed away on August 4th, 2012 in hospital in the United Kingdom. The body, he says, arrived at Entebbe airport on Wednesday the 15th of August 2012. The arrive of the body […]

Museveni reshuffles cabinet: new list of state ministers

In his capacity as the president of Uganda, President Museveni reshuffled his state ministers on Wednesday. Here is the full list of new state ministers: Office of the President: 1. Minister of State for Economic Monitoring – BANYENZAKI HENRY 2. Minister of State for Ethics and Integrity – LOKODO SIMON Office of the Vice President: […]

Museveni reshuffles ministers: list of new cabinet ministers

s In his capacity as the president of Uganda, president Museveni has reshuffled his cabinet ministers. The new list of ministers goes as follows: 1. PRESIDENT & COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF – YOWERI KAGUTA MUSEVENI 2. VICE PRESIDENT – EDWARD SEKANDI 3. Rt. Hon. Prime Minister – AMAMA MBABAZI 4. 1st Deputy Prime Minister & Minister in-Charge of […]

Pressure mounts on Uganda after shoot down of military aircrafts

There is a rumour inSomaliathat all East African Countries are most likely to ally againstUganda’s political aggression. This comes at a time when theUSSecretary of State, Hilary Clinton recently confirmed when she was inSouth AfricathatUgandaandRwandawere aiding the M23 rebels fighting in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. So the East African countries have realised that there […]

Is Uganda’s intelligence network at war with Kenya?

Uganda’s intelligence believes there must have been a conspiracy into the suspected gun down of the threeUgandajet fighters by the suspected Al Shabaab militants. Sources within Uganda and Somalia military intelligence networks suspect it that there are some individuals within Kenyan intelligence and forces that do cooperate direct with Al Shabaab and they are not […]

UPDF and Amson under fire from Al Shabaab

The UPDF and AMSON have come under direct firing from Al Shabaab Fighters in Somalia. This happened on Sunday 12th, August 2012 when the suspected Al Shabaab fighters reportedly gunned down threeUganda attack jet fighters that were destined toSomalia to demolish the Al Shabaab territories. Even though the UPDF spokesperson, Lt. Col. Felix Kulayigye argues […]

DP congratulates FDC upon winning Kasese woman MP elections

The Democratic Party (DP) has congratulated Forum for Democratic Party (FDC) upon winning the recent woman MP by-elections in Kasese. The Kasese woman MP race was won by FDC’s Winnie Kiiza on Wednesday last week. Ms Winnie trounced both DP’s Rosemary Masika and NRM’s Rehema Muhindo. The Secretary General of DP, Mathias Nsubuga says that […]

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