Uganda News

Press reports of a plot to secretly parcel out some 25 acres of public land in Bugolobi in Kampala to some business people made for disturbing reading on Friday. via AllAfrica.com

“We expected him to travel to the district on Monday to lead a team of investors”

By Milton Olupot and Nathan Etengu Omwony Ojwok, the State Minister for Planning in the finance ministry is no more. via New Vision

“This is malice. These people's intention is simply to embarrass me. I did nothing wrong at all”

COURT has summoned the MP for Luuka County to answer charges of forgery and falsification of vehicle documents allegedly to evade taxes. via AllAfrica.com

“We are persuading him and I think we shall get him.”

PRESIDENT Museveni has finally endorsed the appointment of a new head of immigration in a move that could bring efficiency to the agency and help repair its tattered image. via AllAfrica.com

“I asked the community for forgiveness and I got it. Now I move freely and without fear. It can work for the others too.”

GULU, Uganda : Five years ago, Ugandan rebels bayoneted Ellen Atim's husband and five of her children to death. via International Herald Tribune

“There has been no sight or sound of Otti. Even when he was under house arrest, he was still available on the phone. Now even that seems to have gone cold.”

Reports have been circulating in Uganda that Joseph Kony, head of the Lord's Resistance Army, has killed his chief deputy, Vincent Otti. via Daily India

“With all the above being achieved, the demand of the Lukiiko will have been achieved. There is no short cut, everything has to be done in accordance with the Constitution and other supporting laws.”

THE government has stuck to conditions it earlier set for the return of Buganda Kingdom's long-time demands, especially land in the central region. via Daily Monitor

“The children in Uganda are our inspiration. It is a privilege to be able to give to those who have so little, but deserve so much.”

"Many people send items to Uganda, but very few bring them here so that we can meet face-to-face, and begin to know the donors. via U.S. Department of State

“We want to get an agreement expeditiously so that we can go home and join hands with the people.”

As a parade of representatives of Uganda's notorious Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebel group swept into the refugee camp, Thomas Oling confessed that he had never experienced such excitement.

Mr. Oling has spent most of his young adulthood at this camp for displaced people on the outskirts of Gulu, a town that was once at the epicenter of the rebels' horrific 20-year civil war. Their army killed thousands of people, displaced nearly 2 million, and became known for such brutal tactics, as disfiguring civilians and forcing children to be soldiers and sex slaves. Read more

THE Archbishop of Kampala Diocese, Dr Cyprian Lwanga has advised students not to indulge in homosexuality and lesbianism. via Gay Opinion Blog

“Even war cannot take it from us.”

'It is difficult for people to believe our story,' 14-year-old Dominic says at the beginning of 'War/Dance,' an enormously emotional and spirit-raising documentary. via Los Angeles Times

“As we speak now, our timetable is to begin operations on Monday. So, Monday, we should be open for business”

Kenya Commercial Bank, the leading Kenyan banking institution, will start its operations in Uganda on Monday November 12, officials have confirmed. via Daily Monitor

“For 95 percent, being given a hoe and school fees will be enough”

GULU, 7 November 2007 - This is part of a special IRIN series: Uganda Diaries The nightmares have begun again for Viola Lakwac. via IRIN

“Ugandans deserve respect and recognition for their hard work in fighting HIV/AIDS, yet it is wrong for the sponsors of Museveni's speech to praise his leadership on AIDS”

Main Category: HIV / AIDS News Article Date: 07 Nov 2007 - 12:00 PST newsletters Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni last week during a meeting in Washington, D.C., with representatives from the African ... via Medical News Today

“Kony also feared that Otti was dealing with individuals who wanted to eliminate him and take over the leadership”

Vincent Otti is wanted by the Hague for war crimes The deputy leader of the Lord's Resistance Army is missing, feared dead, after reports of a falling out with LRA leader Joseph Kony. via HowardThomson.co.uk

The Lord's Resistance Army negotatiating team to the peace talks with the Government of Uganda arrived in the country on Thursday. via Daily Monitor

“When the doctor said I was going blind, I thought: I will have to stop boxing”

It's an amateur boxing practice with a difference: neither fighter can see. In the red corner: Robert Sembooze, 28, blindfolded. via Reuters

“Since the body had spent one and a half months in Mbuya military hospital, it had frozen and had an ice coating on the face which made us believe it was our son”

Kampala - A Ugandan soldier returned home at the weekend after a two-year military tour in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to find he was dead and buried, local newspapers said on Monday. via The Mercury

“If Kony is keeping [detaining] Otti, he should release him.”

The Ugandan government and the rebel Lord's Resistance Army have extended a ceasefire due to expire at the end of November by three months to give both sides time to finalise a comprehensive deal to end two ... via AlertNet

“I was asked to come and give evidence; I spent here a full week and when I went back in Uganda they called me again. I arrived on Monday but nothing happened”

DRAMA ensued at the Old Bailey Courts on Friday as a Ugandan was being convicted and sentenced to 10 years under the United Kingdom's new stringent terrorism laws. via AllAfrica.com