By Own Correspondent – Unidentified people have set the ‘New Vision’ journalist Goodluck Musinguzi’s home on blaze using petrol. New Vision is the leading news paper in Uganda owned by the government. Musinguzi’s home which is located at Hamabare village, Rushaki ward, Southern division, Kabale municipality was attacked on the night of May 10, 2011. Human Rights Network for Journalists-Uganda (HRNJ-Uganda) reports that the assailants dispensed petrol around his house using a sponge which had been drenched in the petrol to start the fire. “We were awakened up by fire which was started near my bedroom window and a barking... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Saturday, May 14th 2011 |
By Katongole Kiwanuka – Ugandan President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni was on Thursday 12 May sworn in for the fourth time as the Head of State, at a colourful ceremony in Kampala, amid post-election tensions with the opposition. But as his supporters cheered and ululated, the opposition expressed concern over the state of democracy in Uganda, where opposition politicians have in the recent past been subjected to violence and brutality. In Kampala, thousands of people, both the young and old, had thronged the Kololo ceremonial grounds to witness the swearing-in ceremony that was also attended by several African heads of state,... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Saturday, May 14th 2011 |
By Own Correspondent, from Ghana -In a release from Kampala dated May 10, 2011,The Ugandan parliament should reject the Anti-Homosexuality Bill that has been the subject of public hearings in recent days before the Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch said today. The Parliamentary Order Paper of 10 May indicates that the bill could be debated by the Parliament and come up for a vote on May 11, 2011. The bill would introduce the death penalty as a sanction for some consensual sex between members of the same sex, the same penalty provided for terrorism... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Thursday, May 12th 2011 |
Nangayi Guyson In Kampala Uganda – NAIROBI– Uganda main opposition Dr Kizza Besigye’s return from Kenya shakes national security as his return is blocked. Dr Kizza Besigye, is stuck at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) in Kenya after he was stopped from boarding a Kenya Airways flight to Uganda Wednesday morning. The Kenya airline’s officials told Dr Besigye that they were informed by Ugandan authorities that if he was on board the morning flight the aircraft would not be allowed to land at Entebbe International Airport, 40 km outside Kampala but the Ugandan government has denied that they had no authority on... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Wednesday, May 11th 2011 |
By Nangayi Guyson , Shout-Africa reporter in Kampala Uganda -Uganda’s former LRA negotiator David Matsanga who now sees Kenya as the only country where his career can be promoted , has again snatched a chance of being hired by the Kenyan government to act as a consultant to the presidency, according to Africa intelligence website. David Matsanga David Matsanga was a former advisor to Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe but only fell out with some elements in Mugabe’s government in 2002 when he flew into Harare with a Sky News TV crew to shoot an interview with the President and... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Monday, May 9th 2011 |
