Activists for change (A4C) has today officially announced the launch of its second phase of the walk to work campaign slated to start on Monday 17th and Thursday October 2011. The leaders of the pressure group said today that the week long walk to work exercise will end in a massive rally at Kololo on Saturday next week. Speaking at […]
All things are not well in Uganda’s main opposition party (FDC) as the party’s youth have started complaining that Col. Kiiza Besigye is using them to enrich himself. We have been informed that the youth complain that Besigye reportedly moblizes them to stage demonstrations such as the walk to work and the police tear gases them. […]
Relatives of people who were killed during the April walk to work protest are demanding compensation from government. The people who were this evening meeting the Security minister Muruli Mukasa says the children and family members who were depending on those who died are helpless because they dont have any source of income. One of relatives […]
The Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) President, Col. Dr. Kiiza Besigye has commended the Kasangati Grade One Magistrate, George Watyekere for acquitting him of the walk to work charges. Besigye was arrested in April 2011 while walking to office and charged with rioting after proclamation, incitement to violence, and disobeying lawful orders of a traffic […]
Hearing of a case against the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) president, Kizza Besigye, today failed to take off after prosecution failed to produce witnesses. Besigye is facing charges of failing to obey lawful orders by Police officers in uniform during the walk-to-work demonstrations barely two months ago. He has appeared before the Kasangati grade […]
The Bank of Uganda has expressed concern at the surging inflation rates in the country which have now reached 14.1% from 11.1% in the year ended March 2011. The Director, research at BOU, Dr. James Mugume notes that annual core inflation nudged to 9.7% for the year ending April 2011 from 7.8% in the year ending March 2011. Mugume also says that inflationary rate […]
The Uganda Tourism Board has warned that the continued walks to work protest are badly affecting the tourism sector. The country managed to collect 600 million dollars from last year’s tourism activities but with the continued walk to work protest that have entered their fifth week are stopping tourists from visiting the country for fear […]
Leading members of the opposition party FDC have walked smoothly from their areas of residence to the party headquarters in Najjanankubi for a meeting. One of the group plying the Jinja road route comprising of, Budadili west MP, Nathan Nandala Mafabi, Patrick Amuriat, led by the party chief mobilizer, Maj.Gen. Gregory Mugisha Muntu moved through the capital to the party […]
Women activists from different Women organization are appealing to the Government to intervene and reduce on the fuel prices that have made commodity prices shoot up to an extent that some women cannot afford prepare meals for their families. Through a walking procession in different towns of Kampala carrying placards with readings, Fuel prices must go […]
The 3rd Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Internal Affairs, Hajj Kirunda Kivejinja, on Friday issued a statement on the violent arrest of Forum for Democratic Change president Dr. Kizza Besigye on Thursday which left the opposition leader severely injured and hospitlised in Nairobi. The statement is here in full: On April 27, 2011, Dr. […]