ugnet_: AU COUNCIL TO DEAL WITH MERCENARIES
From Innocent Gore in ADDIS ABABA THE African Union Peace and Security Council a body expected to spearhead the fight against conflicts and ensure peace, security and stability on the continent was launched here yesterday. Several Heads of State, including President Mugabe, witnessed the launch of the council which coincided with the commemoration of the 41st anniversary of the Organisation of African Unity, the predecessor to the African Union. AU Commission chairperson Mr Alpha Konare emphasised the need to establish a tribunal to try mercenaries caught on the continent. Referring to the 70 suspected terrorists arrested in Zimbabwe in March, Mr Konare said Africa must not be the last refuge of mercenaries who exploit and plunder the continents wealth. The problem of mercenaries on the continent topped debate during a plenary session soon after the launch with leaders calling for a speedy solution to the issue. The council, comprising 15 members, will deal with peace and security, management of disasters, humanitarian aspects, post-conflict situations, observance of human rights and conflict prevention. The Commission will establish an African standby force comprising five brigades from the continents regions. A document on the establishment of the force is expected to be submitted to the Heads of States at their summit in July. It will also compile an early conflict warning system made up of a panel to identify potential conflict areas. AU chairman President Joachim Chissano of Mozambique said it was important that all regions contribute brigades to the PSC and that the force should be in place by 2010. President Chissano said there was need for resources to establish the PSC and urged all member states to fully pay their dues. He said there was need to build capacities for the PSC and called upon developed countries to cancel their debts to Africa, which had become a net exporter of capital and natural resources. Mr Konare said member-states must demonstrate political will to ensure the success of the council. Chairperson of the AU Commission on security Ambassador Djinnit said while progress had been made in solving conflicts in many parts of Africa, more still needed to be done in Sudan, Burundi, DRC, Cote devoire, Liberia, Somalia and Ethiopia and Eritrea. Members of the PSC are Algeria, Ethiopia, Gabon, Cameroon, Congo Republic, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Libya, Mozambique, Senegal, South Africa, Sudan, Togo and Nigeria. The Mulindwas Communication Group"With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy" Groupe de communication Mulindwas "avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie"
ugnet_: UNICEF urges World to keep focus on crisis in the North
UGANDA: UNICEF urges world to keep focus on crisis in the north © IRIN Carol Bellamy, UNICEF Executive Director. KAMPALA, 25 May 2004 (IRIN) - The executive director of the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF), Carol Bellamy, has urged the world to keep focus on the "humanitarian emergency" in northern Uganda, where 18 years of conflict has devastated the region and displaced up to 1.6 people."The world needs to wake up to the enormity of the crisis in northern Uganda. This is one of the most serious humanitarian emergencies in the world," Bellamy, who arrived in Uganda on Tuesday for a four-day visit, said in a statement."Many hundreds of thousands of children are living in conditions of fear and violence. They are being denied their basic rights to health, protection and education. We need to renew our efforts to alleviate their suffering," she added.According to UNICEF, the number of displaced people in northern Uganda has tripled over the last 24 months as conflict between the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels and government troops continues. Eighty percent of the displaced are women and children, many of whom had been subjected to sexual violence and other forms of exploitation.Bellamy is due to visit displaced people's camps in northern Uganda on Wednesday. In Lira, she will meet children and families living in camps for the displaced to whom UNICEF is providing shelter, water and sanitation facilities and helping construct temporary classrooms. She would then proceed to Gulu, where UNICEF is training local volunteers to provide psychosocial counselling, the statement said. According to UNICEF, the LRA has abducted an estimated 12,000 children since June 2002. Bellamy called on the rebel group to release all remaining child soldiers and abductees from captivity and asked the government of Uganda to give better protection to children. Bellamy is also due to meet an estimated 44,000 children who walk to sleep in towns from outlying areas each night, to avert abduction or attack by the LRA. They are locally known as "night Commuters"."The government of Uganda has a responsibility to protect these children, and the rest of the world must play its part. So far, the global community's response has been woefully inadequate," said Bellamy. "Governments to date have pledged just 20 percent of this year's UN appeal for US $127 million in humanitarian aid for the region."The LRA has been fighting the Uganda government since 1986, perpetrating a violent campaign of terror, cruelty and child abductions. Many of the young boys whom the rebels abduct are forced to fight in the rebel group's ranks, while girls are made sex slaves to rebel commanders. [ENDS] The Mulindwas Communication Group"With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy" Groupe de communication Mulindwas "avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie"
Re: ugnet_: Who owns Wakyato/Ngoma Land - The Peasant's Destiny
Mr Bwanika The land bill act as passed should have ensured that these squatters stay on the land and pay 1000 shillings per year forever. What it did was to give the peasant unrealistic hopes and finallynothing. The land bill is ignored by all, more so M7 and his men.andthe peasants get evicted. Ironically its much easier now to evict a peasanton your land, than before the land bill when the land owner had ' a cultural responsibilty/ duty' towardsthe peasant.. Most of the land in Wakyato is mailo land so it probably belongs to some peopleon this net Nume dbbwanika db [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.idr.co.ug/dfwa-u/gallery.htm http://www.idr.co.ug/dfwa-u/gallery.htm - Between 30 - 60, 80 Farmers are evicted from their land in wakyato and other areas in Luwero-Farmers have stayed on land for over 40 years others more than 60 years- Their crops destroyed without being paid or moved to other land and even cattle destroyed-One Mularo women her cattle keeper is imprisoned without charges or any reason for imprisonment being explained!!- Some land has been sold more than three times by people driving UC vechiles -Letters from the forestry department have been produced claiming ownership to land yet ministers and private individuals are cutting down trees to make charcoal for sell!- At the same time ministers and other invidividuals claim ownership to land as t he forward the UFA ownership- Who owns this land - state minister of defence or the forestry department or people claiming to be government officials.- Why were the people farmer not paid before eviction what does the law say??¨__bwanikaurl: www.idr.co.ugLogon Join in ug-academicsdb discussion listhttp://www.coollist.com/subcribe.htmlList ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Your Email address: url: http://uhpl.uganda.co.ughttp://pub59.ezboard.com/fugandamanufacturersassociationfrm1 Do you Yahoo!?Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger
ugnet_: W. Nile recruits COCK Brigade...now that is a good one ..I hear Cock Brigade
W. Nile Recruits Cock Brigade Email This Page Print This Page Visit The Publisher's Site New Vision (Kampala) May 26, 2004 Posted to the web May 26, 2004 Emmy Allio Kampala DISTRICT authorities in Moyo and Adjumani recently resolved to form a local militia group called the Cock Brigade to assist in the fight against the Lord's Resistance Army. First deputy premier Lt. Gen. Moses Ali said, We arrived at this decision in order to stop the persistent incursions into Adjumani District by Kony rebels. Ali said the new militia brigade called aulogo, a Madi word for 'cock', would comprise 1,500 fighters drawn from the two districts and the rest of West Nile region. I urge the whole of West Nile region to join Aulogo Brigade in order to make it impossible for Kony rebels to operate in the West Nile region, he said. Ali said 156 members had been recruited so far. Relevant Links East Africa Civil War and Communal Conflict Uganda We are arming ourselves because we do not want to wait until disaster strikes. We share a borderline of over 1,500km with Gulu District and so we are preparing for any eventuality, Ali said. The formation of Cock Brigade brings to four the number of local militias allied to the Uganda People's Defence Forces in the fight the LRA rebels. This service is hosted on the Infocom network http://www.infocom.co.ug
ugnet_: Poverty is the worst Weapon of Mass Destruction says Lula of Brazil
CHINA 26/5/2004 15:01 WORLD BANK SUMMIT, LULA: OVERTY WORST WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTION?/b Politics/Economy, Brief e do not accept the fact that in some rich countries cows receive subsidies of two dollars a day while half of the world population survives on less than one dollar a day,?said the President of Brazil, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, during the World Bank summit on poverty reduction in Shanghai, China, adding that poverty s the worst weapon of mass destruction? The Brazilian Head of State also said that the international agenda is too focussed on security issues, neglecting the serious imbalances that continue to affect millions of people throughout the world. According to the World Bank, 80 per cent of global resources are owned by just 20 per cent of the world population, while a billion people face the daily battle for survival with less than a dollar a day. Lula was echoed by the Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, who believes that developed countries should cancel the debt that risks suffocating the economies of poorer nations and speed up the transfer of technologies to promote development. The president of the World Bank, James Wolfensohn, said that the summit had been organised in China because Beijing has managed to rescue roughly 400 million people from poverty over the last 20 years, adding that the Chinese model ?involving a series of five-year plans ?could be a good example for other countries.[LC]
ugnet_: Pafo searches for 2006 Candidate
Pafo searches for 2006 candidate By Emma Mutaizibwa May 26, 2004 PARLIAMENT - The Parliamentary Advocacy Forum will field a presidential candidate for the 2006 presidential election, the groups spokesperson, Salaamu Musumba, has said. We are going to field a presidential candidate because the Movement has failed, Ms Musumba, who is also Bugabula South MP, said on phone yesterday. Pafo, is a parliamentary caucus opposed to amending the Constitution to remove the presidential term limits. Musumba said Pafos presidential candidate will be picked from either Buganda or the eastern region. She said the proposed amendment of Article 105 (2) of the Constitution was a big pitfall blotting the democratisation process. If the Movement amends Article 105 of the Constitution because it is not responding to democratic principles, we have no choice but to field a candidate. We are all capable of leading the country, said Musumba. Article 105 (2) of the Constitution provides that a President can only serve two five- year terms. President Yoweri Museveni has kept the country guessing whether he will seek re-election after his second and last constitutional term expires in 2006. Musumba did not name Pafos preferred candidates. She, however, said the candidates had already been identified. She said Pafo would register as a party. We are exercising our rights to organise and add value to the democratisation process of this country, she said. Musumba said Pafo is soliciting for $10 million (about Shs 20 billion) to draw up its battle lines ahead of 2006. We are planning to do outreach workshops and civic education around the country, she said. Pafo also denied that it had contacted the Egyptian embassy for $10,000. The latest edition of the Indian Ocean Newsletter said Pafo had discreetly contacted the Egyptian embassy for funds. The newsletter said Pafos legal affairs secretary Abdu Katuntu (Bugweri) met Egyptian ambassador Mr Maasoum Marzouk on May 7 in Kampala, over the issue. It also said the envoy held several meetings with 15 Pafo members. Pafo also includes former Movement bigwigs who fell out with the Government for opposing the third term. Former Internal Affairs minister Eriya Kategaya is an associate member of the group. Other third term critics include; former Army Commander Maj. Gen Mugisha Muntu, East African Legislative Assembly Secretary General Mr Amanya Mushega and former spy boss Mr David Pulkol. 2004 The Monitor Publications This service is hosted on the Infocom network http://www.infocom.co.ug
ugnet_: Museveni Kagame fighting Proxy wars in Rwanda inspite of sweet talks on the contrary
The local and foreign armed groups ontinue representing a threat to the population?and an obstacle to peace in east Democratic Republic of Congo. This was the statement made this morning by Jean-Marie Guenno, United Nations Under-Secretary and representative of peace operations, speaking from Bukavu, in North Kivu, the extreme east of DR-Congo. SO IN OTHER WORDS MUSEVENI AND KAGAME ARE PLAYING..RATHER STIL FIGHTING PROXY WARS IN DRC CONG...you heard it from Jean-Marie Guenno ! yep that is right!!! Matek CONGO-DEM.REPUBLIC 25/5/2004 15:26 UN UNDER-SECRETARY IN BUKAVU: LOCAL AND FOREIGN TROOPS STILL A THREAT Politics/Economy, Brief The local and foreign armed groups ontinue representing a threat to the population?and an obstacle to peace in east Democratic Republic of Congo. This was the statement made this morning by Jean-Marie Guenno, United Nations Under-Secretary and representative of peace operations, speaking from Bukavu, in North Kivu, the extreme east of DR-Congo. Over the past months the border between Rwanda and DR-Congo has been theatre to new tension involving the Interahamwe militias ?accused of responsibility in the 1994 Rwandan genocide and since in hiding in Congolese territory ?and the Kinshasa troops. The UN peace force in DR-Congo (known as MONUC) ill discourage any attempt of intimidation? added Kofi Annan deputy. Guenno visited the new base of the ivu Brigade? which should count a total of 3,700 peacekeepers, created to reinforce the peace contingent deployed in the area. The UN representative went yesterday to Bunia, capital of the tormented Ituri province, where clashes between armed groups ?backed by Uganda and Rwanda for control of the rich mineral resources of the zone ?continued until a few months ago, despite the deployment of over 4-thousand peacekeepers, whose mandate was reinforced in July of last year and authorises the use of force. Speaking in Bunia, Guenno invited the government of Kinshasa o reinforce its presence in Ituri? also because n future it will be up to the Congolese State to guarantee security?in the district, which today is ensured by the UN forces. Before leaving the Ituri capital for Bukavu, the peace forces representative reiterated that he military option no longer exists? the armed groups of the province formally pledged to respect the disarmament process ?in which regard both observers and the population accuse the MONUC of slowness and incapacity ?but peacekeepers are still subject to sporadic attacks by rebel groups that have presided the territory for five years, resulting in the death of over 50,000 and displacement of hundreds of thousands. [BO]
ugnet_: Chad approves leader's third term
Chad approves leader's third term President Deby: Inaugurated multiparty constitution Chad's parliament has approved an amendment to the constitution which would allow President Idriss Deby to stand for re-election. The current constitution only allows the president to stand for two five-year terms, and Mr Deby's second term is due to end in 2006. Mr Deby's MPS party has a huge majority in parliament and the amendment was passed unanimously. Opposition parties have called for a national strike in protest. A BBC correspondent in the capital, Ndjamena, says that the strike call was widely followed, with shops closed and the streets empty. The constitutional change was first requested last year by the governing Patriotic Salvation Movement (MPS) and would allow a president to stand for re- election as many times as they wanted, until the age of 70. The opposition boycotted the vote. It was passed by 123 votes to 0, with one abstention in the 155-seat parliament. A two-thirds majority is required to change the constitution. Mr Deby, 52, became leader in 1991 when his MPS rebels took power. He introduced multi-party democracy in 1996. \\\Always be a first rate version of yourself instead of a second rate version of someone else.\ Njoki Paul University of Pretoria This service is hosted on the Infocom network http://www.infocom.co.ug
ugnet_: MP Okumu demands Museveni's resignation
MP Okumu Demands Museveni's Resignation Email This Page Print This Page Visit The Publisher's Site New Vision (Kampala) May 26, 2004 Posted to the web May 26, 2004 Joyce Namutebi Kampala ASWA MP Reagan Okumu has demanded the resignation of President Yoweri Museveni's government over the continued massacre of people in northern Uganda by the Lord's Resistance Army rebels. He threatened to seek redress in the Constitutional Court, saying the Government and the President had breached Articles 20 (2), 50 (4), 99 (3), 137 (5) and chapter four of the Constitution of Uganda. In a press release issued yesterday, Okumu said Museveni's government should resign because it had proved incapable of running a modern state. Relevant Links East Africa Uganda Legal and Judicial Affairs Civil War and Communal Conflict He said it was a shame that the Government would not apologise over the killing of over 40 people in Lukodi village in his constituency recently. It is now clear that the Government is not interested in protecting the people. Some heads must roll in the defence ministry if the Government is genuinely concerned, he said. This service is hosted on the Infocom network http://www.infocom.co.ug
ugnet_: Lawyers to Challenge Third term in Court
Lawyers to Challenge Third Term in Court Email This Page Print This Page Visit The Publisher's Site New Vision (Kampala) May 26, 2004 Posted to the web May 26, 2004 Apollo Mubiru Kampala A GROUP of lawyers is to challenge the third term project in the courts of law, a Kampala based advocate, Peter Walubiri, has said. The Constitution states that all power belongs to the people. This very article has been cited several times by the third term proponents, but the people being referred to cannot exercise their power because they are so poor, he said. What the third term agitators forget is that it will be a transition from Museveni to Museveni the President. This is a manipulation of people, which needs to be challenged in court. I'm sure it will be the biggest case in the Constitutional Court of Uganda over time, he said. Walubiri was yesterday presenting a paper on recent political cases at a public interest litigation workshop for lawyers organised by the Uganda Law Society at Hotel Equatoria. Walubiri was non-committal on the number of lawyers who were behind the proposal to challenge the third term project in court, but said all interested parties, politicians and civil society could join their struggle. Relevant Links East Africa Uganda A big number of lawyers are still watching developments in Parliament about this issue, but at an opportune moment, we shall move. The sky is the limit as far as resistance in that case is concerned, he said. The Principal Judge, Herbert Ntabgoba, said if it were decided that third term would infringe on anybody's rights, then one could bring litigation to prevent This service is hosted on the Infocom network http://www.infocom.co.ug
ugnet_: UN Condemns KONY Rebel atrocities, pleads for vulnerable
UN Condemns LRA Rebel Atrocities, Pleads for Vulnerable Email This Page Print This Page Visit The Publisher's Site New Vision (Kampala) May 26, 2004 Posted to the web May 26, 2004 Henry Mukasa Kampala THE UN has expressed outrage over continued attacks on camps in the north and the increasing number of homeless children. UN emergency relief co-ordinator Jan Egeland decried the recent attack at Lukodi camp where 41 people were killed and over 7,000 displaced. I condemn these attacks on civilians and call on the Lord's Resistance Army to stop it immediately, Egeland said in a May 21 report released in New York City. The report said the number of people, especially children and women displaced by rebel activities has tripled to over 1.6 million since 2002. The rebels have abducted more than 10,000 children since June 2002 who are being forced to fight and commit atrocities. The UN launched a Consolidated Inter-Agency Appeal to collect US$109m to finance the humanitarian needs of the people this year. With the year nearly half was, only US$ 22m (just 20%) has been collected. The situation is exacerbated by the fluid security situation in the region, the report issued said. Meanwhile, Unicef executive director Carol Bellamy has called on both the Government and the Lord's Resistance Army rebels to protect children. In a press release issued in Kampala, Bellamy, who is on a visit to Uganda, said the number of people displaced by the rebels has tripled in the past 24 months to 1.6 million. The world needs to wake up to the enormity of the crisis in the north. This is one of the most serious humanitarian emergencies in the world, she said. Many children are living in conditions of fear and violence, Bellamy added. Relevant Links East Africa Children and Youth Uganda Refugees and Displacement Civil War and Communal Conflict They are being denied their basic right to health, protection and education. We need to renew our efforts to alleviate their suffering, she said. Bellamy said 80% of the internally displaced people in the north are women and children the majority of whom are subjected to sexual violence and many other forms of exploitation. This service is hosted on the Infocom network http://www.infocom.co.ug
Re: ugnet_: Poverty is the worst Weapon of Mass Destruction says Lula of Brazil
Excellent piece.
ugnet_: Ex-rebel to Join UPDF
Ex-Rebel to Join UPDF Email This Page Print This Page Visit The Publisher's Site New Vision (Kampala) May 26, 2004 Posted to the web May 26, 2004 Ali Mao Gula MAJOR Sylvio Okot, a senior member of the LRA high command, has said he will join hands with the UPDF to end the 18-year-long war. I have spent most of my time as a combatant. Why should I remove the uniform to save my life and leave others suffering in the bush? I will ensure I fight alongside the UPDF to end this war, Okot said. He recently defected to the UPDF in Pajule, Pader district on Tuesday and told journalists at Pader army barracks that the hospitality rendered to him by the UPDF was a sign of humanity and a path to end the civil war. Okot, who has spent 16 years in the bush since 1988, said he was scared that when he surrenders, the UPDF would kill him. Okot reported with eight wives, four of whom are mothers, 23 fighters, 20 women, 10 children and 24 captives. He encouraged other rebels to give up and join hands with all Ugandans to rehabilitate the north. Relevant Links East Africa Civil War and Communal Conflict Uganda I have been hearing my colleagues saying they reached well but I knew it was government's propaganda to kill us. But I took courage and reported, Okot said. I am encouraging my colleagues like Abudema, Odhiambo, John Opio and other commanders to come out, he said. This service is hosted on the Infocom network http://www.infocom.co.ug
ugnet_: DP wants Ayume Inquest
The fact of the matter is that Ayume was Killed by the NRM. Perhaps because of his stand on the so called Third Term. Wapakabulo too was killed for the some reason. The murder of this two prominent Ugandans was carried out to make it look like a motor accident!... ..you know the type of motor accident which the late Idi Amin carried out of archbishop Jonani Luwum and then Vice President Mustapha Adrisi. Ugandans shoucld be very very careful, many more prominent Ugandan will most definately meet thier death under such dubious accidents ( organized by the state) as Museveni and his stooges/sycophants get very desperate by the day for Third Terms. Do not say I did not warn you. Matek DP Wants Ayume Inquest Email This Page Print This Page Visit The Publisher's Site New Vision (Kampala) May 26, 2004 Posted to the web May 26, 2004 Henry Mukasa Kampala THE Democratic Party (DP) has called for an inquiry into the death of Attorney General Francis Ayume. In a statement on Friday, DP spokesperson Jude Mbabaali said, The Democratic Party demands that in order to promote public faith in the Government, a commission of inquiry should be appointed to establish the cause. He said the commission should involve religious leaders and Ayume's relatives. He said the party shared feelings with the country that Ayume's death could have been a political murder, following media reports on his stand on contentious political issues. Ugandans have a right to know how, when and where Ayume met his death, Mbabaali said. He died in a motor accident on May 16 at Kyankonwa in Nakasongola district on the Kampala-Gulu road. Police reports and a denial by a minister that the Government had reportedly had a hand in the accident have led Ayume's death to be surrounded by mystery. Relevant Links East Africa Crime and Corruption Uganda The Police had said a trailer hit the AG's vehicle, but later said a pothole caused the accident. The minister for Works, Transport and Communications, Eng. John Nasasira told parliament that the spot of the accident had no pothole but a small hole. This service is hosted on the Infocom network http://www.infocom.co.ug
ugnet_: Rwanda, Isreali/Palestinian Fracas,USA/Iraq Mix-up..and the UN
Rwanda, Israeli/Palestinian Fracas, Usa/Iraq Mix-Up And the UN Email This Page Print This Page Visit The Publisher's Site Ghanaian Chronicle (Accra) OPINION May 14, 2004 Posted to the web May 14, 2004 Arc. Z. Arram Accra The 10th anniversary of the Rwandan vendetta, with its regrets for what was done and what should have been done, is over but on reflection, we have to ask ourselves whether it was worthwhile. In the face of the Israeli and Palestinian eye for an eye warfare; the daylight rape of Iraq by USA and her accomplices; the guerilla-style killings by Islamic militants; we have to ask ourselves whether the pious memorials of the Rwandan po-grom was necessary? Whether we call it genocide; claiming land prophesied for some chosen people; Jihad; regime change; fighting terrorism or propagating democracy, if it involves killing of people, it is bad and such murderous ventures must all be equally condemned. The killings in Rwanda have passed and gone. Those who have not learnt any lesson from them may never learn, and we should not have spent time and money dwelling on them. If the UN wants to prove to the world that she means business, she must stop the disgraceful events going on between Israel and Palestine; the blood bath being enacted by the allied occupiers and the aggrieved sons and daughters of Iraq; and the widespread killings by Islamic militants. None of the protagonists in these trouble spots must be allowed to dictate terms because if a nation or group pick up arms against another, it means that nation or group has run out of reason. The UN must go to these hot spots and establish a ceasefire if she wants to be taken seriously. No crying over spilt blood in Rwanda. If the UN feels her hands are tied because the USA is her landlord, she must relocate anywhere she deems fit so that she can be free to talk to all the beregerent forces the way they must be addressed to lay down their arms. We must not play games by organising a memorial service for victims of mass murders at one part of the world while turning a blind eye to similar murders being perpetrated at other parts of the world to keep the military industrial complex in bouyant business. The UN was established to end war and establish peace. The only way of achieving these noble ends is for the UN to: (i) Replace worldwide the contraceptive-based Planned Parenthood System that has contributed in populating the world with many unruly people and wheeler-dealing leaders. Those propagating the existing Planned Parenthood System must be helped to study a novel system called Marital Technology, which is a form of superior sex education, healthier birth control and nobler family planning. The new system does not involve the use of contraceptives that interfere with the reproductive process, resulting in the delivery of children with warped psychics. The world can never know peace if this contraceptive menace is not curbed or halted entirely. (ii) Ban the production of weapons of war in the world. (iii) Stop armies from learning how to kill human beings. (iv) See to it that spiritual knowledge, character building and deep moral training is added to the curriculum of the objective scholarship taught in the schools of our time. Relevant Links Central Africa West Africa Conflict, Peace and Security Ghana Rwanda We hope the UN shall implement these suggestions, that is, if she wants to attain her objectives. We are almost tired of smooth-rapping UN officials who come to sweet-talk us after our relations, friends and officials have been massacred by the wicked. This service is hosted on the Infocom network http://www.infocom.co.ug
ugnet_: Not enough to say power belongs to the people
Not Enough to Say Power Belongs to the People Email This Page Print This Page Visit The Publisher's Site The Monitor (Kampala) OPINION May 26, 2004 Posted to the web May 26, 2004 Humphrey K. Rugambanengwe Kampala On May 12 2004, President Yoweri Museveni, in good English, penned a letter to the Vice President Prof. Gilbert Bukenya, on the late Wapakhabulo's (R.I.P) submission on presidential term limits. Pint by point he disapproved the following categories of people: Those who doubted his intention to seek re-election in 2006. Those who doubted Kategaya's submission that Museveni was behind the manoeuvre to lift term limits. Those who thought that his intention of going to the bush in 1981 was to re-establish the rule of law and constitutional order in Uganda, as a panacea for constitutionalism and democracy. Those who thought that the days of mob-justice and resistance (read violence) in Uganda are over. Those who thought that he listens and accepts advice. More than ever before, Museveni's letter beckons all Ugandans to prepare for hard times ahead. Museveni indeed understands what the constitution says about term limits. He is not mincing words about his intention to abrogate the constitution. Bukenya, after receiving Museveni's letter, gave an interview to The Weekly Observer, in which he conceded that the forum on term limits is parliament. In any case, one does not need to be a lawyer or professor to appreciate that the power to lift term limits is vested in parliament and not 'the people' through a referendum. One just has to be an adult of sound mind. It cannot therefore be said that Museveni is ignorant of the law. It is only fair to say that Museveni knows what he wants (power), no matter how he gets it. He knows very well that the intended referendum on term limits is for propaganda. But thanks for the freedom of speech ushered in by the Movement government. The vicious 1981 - 1986 war in Luwero was fought in the name of the people but certainly not for the people, it is un acceptable to politicise legal matters, just as it is to legalise them. Since he captured state power, the regime of President Museveni has done both. Ugandans have all this time been used by Museveni and his cohorts to realise their selfish interests. Which is why when the people of Kibale elected Mr Fred Ahabwe Ruremera L.C.V Chairman, Museveni had the audacity to ask him to step aside. The Uganda People's Defence Forces (UPDF) was deployed in Congo and Sudan without consulting the people or their chosen representatives in parliament. Buganda's contentious demand for Federo has not been subjected to a referendum. Omugabe Prince John Barigye of Ankole was not rejected by the people but by the president. As long as Museveni's personal interests are threatened, he will always invoke the power of the people to get his way, even if it means sidelining the law. It is therefore not surprising that Museveni conveniently chose to cite and quote half of Article 1(1) of the constitution that All power belongs to the people, deliberately leaving out who shall exercise their sovereignty in accordance with this constitution. It is embarrassing of Museveni to submit that if the Constituent Assembly (CA) failed to address the aspirations of the people, it is his duty as President and a resistance fighter to do so. This is wrong and a subversion of the supremacy of the Constitution. If this is Constitutional review, as Museveni submits, one wonders why cabinet did not propose to the Sempebwa Constitution Review Commission that Article 1 (1) of the Constitution be reviewed and/or amended by deleting the other half which the president elects not to quote? Article 2(1) provides that this Constitution is the supreme law of Uganda and shall have binding force on all authorities and persons throughout Uganda, if read together with Article 1(1), one would note that, technically, power belongs to the Constitution. Clause (2) of Article 1 provides that all authority in the state emanates from the people of Uganda. The hierarchy of Power therefore descends from the Constitution, to the people down to the state. Museveni's desire to empower the people and fulfil their aspirations is his own sentiment, which cannot override the Constitution as it is today. For example, under Article 126(1) of Constitution, it is provided that judicial power is derived from the people. But how many people participated in the 3 - 2 Supreme Court verdict to the effect that the electoral irregularities in the 2001 President elections were not substantial as to annul Museveni's victory? The Supreme Court needed not consult the people! Likewise, Article 1 (4) of the Constitution provides that the people shall express their will and consent on who shall govern them and how they should be governed, through regular, free and fair elections of their representatives. Henceforth, if
ugnet_: What a headache!
What causes headaches? Mike A.Wilmington, Del. Dawn A. Marcus, an associate professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicines department of anesthesiology, explains. When experiencing a severe, throbbing headache, a person often places his hands on both sides of his head and claims, "It feels like my brain is pushing to get out, so it feels better to hold it in." This sensation gives a false impression that the brain itself is enlarging and causing the pain sensation. Interestingly, brain tissue does not feel pain in the same way skin or other organs do. Because the brain is encased in a hard, protective covering, it has not developed to respond to touch or pressure sensations like other, more exposed parts of our bodies have. Indeed, a brain surgeon can actually cut brain tissue in an awake patient without the patient feeling the knife. Head pain instead occurs because of activation or irritation of structures that do sense pain: skin, bone or neck joints, sinuses, blood vessels or muscles. When a person has a brain tumor, pain is usually a late symptom to develop--brain tumors generally only cause pain when they have grown large enough to damage bone or stretch blood vessels or nerves. Neck problems may also result in head pain, with pain from the neck and back of the head often radiating over the top of the head to an eye. Sinus infection or inflammation (usually occurring as part of an allergy reaction), however, is an uncommon cause of recurring headaches. Interestingly, Roger Cady and Curtis Schneider of the Headache Care Center in Springfield, Mo., have shown that 25 to 30 percent of migraine sufferers report nasal symptoms during their typical migraine episodes, and nearly 98 percent of people who believed they had sinus headaches were actually experiencin g a migraine. The most common types of chronic headaches are the migraine and tension-type varieties. A migraine is an intermittent headache, usually occurring between once a month and twice a week, with each episode lasting eight to 12 hours. Migraine is often experienced as a one-sided, throbbing head pain that limits activities and may be associated with nausea and sensitivity to lights, noises and smells. Tension-type headaches may occur more frequently, and the pain-- typically a dull pressure pain on both sides of the head that does not limit activities--sometimes lasts several days. Both of these kinds of headache occur in response to exposure to internal or external triggers, such as hormonal changes, sleep deprivation, fasting or stress. Exposure to these triggers prompts the brain to signal pain centers that produce a variety of chemical messengers, including serotonin and norepinephrine, which cause expansion of meningeal blood vesse ls surrounding the brain. This expansion results in increased blood flow, and blood vessels on the side of the head can become more prominent and tender. As the blood vessels swell they stretch the nerves that surround them, causing these nerves to send signals to the trigeminal system, an area of the brain that relays pain messages for the head and face. Activation of the trigeminal system most commonly causes pain around the eye and cheek, creating the false perception of "sinus" pain. The trigeminal system also sends messages to the hypothalamus, an area of the brain involved in food cravings, and to the upper part of the cervical spinal cord, which may result in muscle spasms in the neck. Once the full headache pathway is activated, it becomes more difficult for headache treatments to work effectively. Recent work led by Rami Burstein of Harvard University in both rats and humans has consistently shown that headache medications need to be taken early in a headache episode in order to be effective. Migraine patients often notice that their headaches begin with a throbbing sensation followed by increased skin sensitivity. This increased skin sensitivity, called allodynia, may take the form of scalp tenderness, "painful" hair or pain associated with hair brushing or wearing earrings or glasses. Once allodynia has occurred, headache treatments are much less effective. Carefully recording headache symptoms in a diary can provide a good estimate of when allodynia usually occurs and can help an individual determine when medications should be taken to offer the most relief. Although most chronic headaches are not caused by serious disease, a significant change in headache pattern, a lack of effectiveness of previously effective therapy, or the development of new health problems in addition to the headache should prompt a visit to ones doctor for an evaluation. Answer posted on May 24, 2004 © 1996-2004 Scientific American, Inc. All rights reserved.Reproduction in whole or in part without permission is prohibited. Learn to simplify your finances and your life in Streamline Your Life from MSN Money. This service is hosted on the Infocom
Re: ugnet_: Rwanda, Isreali/Palestinian Fracas,USA/Iraq Mix-up..and the UN
The problem with this author's piece is that he / she tends to blame the assaulted and aggrieved equally...there can be no symetry between the settler Israel state, or the US, another settler state, and the people who these entities have attacked and deprived of even the most fundamental human rights...
ugnet_: Police probe scandal of dumped unborn babies.(Does this sound like in Africa??????)
NEWS Police probe scandal of dumped unborn babies Story by MIKE MWANIKI Publication Date: 05/27/2004 The scandal of how the remains of 15 unborn babies came to be dumped next to a city river was last night being investigated by police. The babies wrapped in black plastic bags together with medical waste including bandages, disposable gloves and syringes were found by appalled residents of Nairobi's South C estate, at the railings of Ngong River bridge, next to the International Christian Centre. With the bags were sensitive private documents including a register of patients who had undergone abortions and treatment for sexually transmitted diseases, plus details of the health care they received and the fees they paid. Letters from a leading city gynaecologist and a number of companies also lay scattered next to the foetuses. In one, a company called Med-tec Toshiba details its conditions for selling a desktop ultrasound scanner to Dr John Nyamu, whose address is given as Afya Centre, Nairobi. Another is from Dr Nyamu, who asks the director of the Betting Control Board in the Home Affairs ministry for a licence to operate a raffle called the Cash in Action jackpot lottery. He later described the find as an attempt to sabotage his practice and said his firm Reproductive Health Services was not in any way involved in abortions. Dr Nyamu, who has run his Afya Centre clinic since 1995, said he was waiting for police to get to the root of the problem. He spoke as a security guard, Mr Stephen Mumo, revealed the bags had been dropped the previous night at about 11.30 by three men who were driving a dark blue pick-up. "Their intention appeared to throw them over the bridge into the river so that they could be washed away. However, when we accosted them, they panicked and sped-off, leaving them behind next to the bridge rail," he said. And he revealed foetuses and other medical waste were dumped in the river at the same site at least twice a month. "I believe they have identified this area as an ideal dumping site, more so during the rainy season, since the fast flowing water washes the debris downstream," he said. Mr Mumo, of Patriotic Guards, said he and his colleagues had reported similar incidents to the police but no action had been taken. Ngong River meanders through several city estates and pours into Nairobi River near Industrial Area. Yesterday's find caused a heavy traffic jam along the Nairobi-Mombasa Highway as motorists and residents milled around trying to catch a glimpse of the grisly sight. Children broke down and wept as other curious onlookers a majority of them women and girls from the nearby Kenya Institute of Mass Communication and other estates discussed the finds in hushed tones. Sports minister Najib Balala was among those who drove through the area and was heard summoning police to the scene on his mobile phone. Police later carried away the bags, accompanied by an armed guard. Speaking at the scene, Lang'ata deputy police chief Henry Kiambi said they had already begun their investigations. They had been given the identities of doctors believed to be involved in the find and had also recovered documents on the clinics involved. Mr Kiambi confirmed police had received complaints over the regular dumping but had been unable to catch those involved. The pastor of the International Christian Centre outside which the bags were found, Mr Chip Block, said: "This is a sad day for us as Christians since our desire, vision and dream as a church is to give life and we feel bad when we encounter these kind of episode where life has been snuffed out without giving it a chance to live". "It's more than just a scene by a river . . . it's more than just something for curiosity's sake; it's a matter of life and death," he continued. Pastor Block added: "It's my hope that the visual statement that's being made here will be taken to help the Kenyan nation make a decision against legalising abortion". It was not the first time such bags had been found. "Some employees had earlier informed me of similar incidents and I reported the same to authorities," he said. "During one incident, we had to clean up the mess ourselves and we made a decision that if it occurred again, we would involve the police and other people and expose what has been happening". The centre's administrator, Ms Priscilla Mutiga and supervisor Mr Fred Mugambi said the dumping had been taking place every fortnight since December. "We were alarmed last month when street urchins staying near the river refused to open one of the polythene bags, and just walked away after a first touch. We went and opened and found there were foetuses," said Ms Mutiga. And Mr Mugambi added that when they reported that find to Lang'ata police "all the police asked us was whether we had arrested anyone, recorded the car's registration number, or taken any photographs." On April 23, Mr Mugambi called the Health
ugnet_: Man jailed for threats on his wife.Is Emancipation at last around the Corner??????
NEWS Man jailed for threats on his wife Story by SOLLO KIRAGU Publication Date: 05/27/2004 A man was yesterday jailed for one year after failure to raise a Sh2,000 fine for threatening to beat his wife. Samuel Nyakundi Ontiri, who appeared before Kericho principal magistrate Joel Ngeno, was charged with creating disturbance likely to cause a breach of the peace at a Brooke Bond Estate camp. Prosecutor Reuben Korir told the court the accused used vulgar language on the complainant and threatened to beat her. The offence was committed on May 22 at Kimugu. Mr Korir told the packed court that at 6pm, the complainant was in her house when Ontiri called her a prostitute and grabbed her blouse threatening to beat her. "The complainant raised an alarm and the public came to her rescue. They arrested the culprit and took him to Chagaik chief's camp," he said. Ontiri admitted the offence and asked the court to forgive him. He could not raise a Sh2,000 fine and was sent to prison to start the sentence. In the same court, a man who menacingly demanded sugar in a neighbours house was also sentenced to one-year imprisonment for creating a disturbance. He too had been fined Sh2,000 but he could not raise the amount. Mr Korir told the court that Samuel Kibet Langat threatened to hit Ms Chrsitine Maina with a piece of wood after she refused to give him sugar. Lagat committed the offence on May 16 at Ketitui sub-location at 9pm. The accused had nothing to tell the court in mitigation. Chat instantly with your online friends? Get the FREE Yahoo! Messenger
ugnet_: Mine is a crazy marriage
Mine is a crazy marriage Mukyala Kato May 26, 2004 I will not lie to you that I have been unwell, like we always do when people ask why we have not fulfilled our obligations. The reason I disappeared in thin air last week is because of the shock I suffered. I do not know how to put it. In one word - I am ashamed. When I returned home from the interview, I found my husband at home. Peter, I am surprised you are at home, I said as I kicked off my shoes. Are you fine? I am fine. Where have you been? he asked. I had gone to check on a friend who is not well, I lied. Why was he interested in my movement when he never tells me about his? Which friend? Celia you are such a liar. So tell me honey, how are you and the baby? he said as he drew closer. I could see he was uneasy. So I waited to hear what was making him behave the way he was. In a flash, he went to the kitchen and came back with a glass of fruit juice. Oh! Thanks a lot, I thought you were completely off romance, I said with a smile, then made for the bedroom and surprisingly Peter followed me there. Honey I want us to talk, he began, sitting so close to me. My heart began pounding so fast. This was very confusing and uneasy. Come on Peter, stop it. Why do you put me on tension, I asked, unable to hide my anxiety. My mind was so vexed. I was wondering what my husband was about to tell me but I knew it was nothing near good. He did not seem to understand my dilemma though. Do not be anxious. I just want to discuss something with you my dear wife, he said. There is something I want you to hear from me. It will save us a lot of trouble. But all I am going to tell you does not mean I do not love you. And please forgive me, he begged. Then he went on about a mistake that has resulted into a pregnancy of a woman who was next to his office. He was blaming it all on alcohol and too much pressure from his job. In short, my husband has yet another child outside marriage. I did not answer him or try to find out any more details about the child or its mother. It was like a big stone had been dropped on my head. If I have ever felt demoralised in my marriage, there was no worse time than this. I know all these things happen and all men are cheats, but when will this ever end? All the time I have to put up with a lot of shame, and explanations. I have been wondering to myself, what did I do wrong or what did I fail to do that I should be in such a crazy marriage? © 2004 The Monitor Publications Yahoo! Messenger - Communicate instantly..."Ping" your friends today! Download Messenger Now
ugnet_: Polls
Cast Your Vote Political stability and human rights in Uganda will improve under the governance of Reform Agenda 28.4% None 28.1% NRM 22.5% UPC 21.0% Total Votes: 1740 I found this poll on The Monitor and apparently those who do not think that NRM, RA and UPC can bring about political stability were in a photo finish with RA. NRM and UPC are also neck and neck. How about DP, one of Africas oldest political parties? How about PAFO, PIP, NPU and CP? Was the pollster against DP? There are known knowns - there are things that we know that we know. There are known unknowns - that is to say, there are things that we now know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns ... things we do not know we don't know. And each year we discover a few more of those unknown unknowns. Us Secretary of Defense 2001 -? Donald Rumsfeld --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.679 / Virus Database: 441 - Release Date: 5/7/2004 image001.gifimage002.gifimage003.gifimage004.gifimage005.gif
ugnet_: FW: NYTimes.com Article: Confusion Is Rampant With Change in the SAT's
Original Message Follows From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: NYTimes.com Article: Confusion Is Rampant With Change in the SAT's Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 15:53:42 -0400 (EDT) The article below from NYTimes.com has been sent to you by [EMAIL PROTECTED] /- E-mail Sponsored by Fox Searchlight \ THE CLEARING - IN THEATERS JULY 2 - WATCH THE TRAILER NOW An official selection of the 2004 Sundance Film Festival, THE CLEARING stars ROBERT REDFORD and HELEN MIRREN as Wayne and Eileen Hayes - a husband and wife living the American Dream. Together they've raised two children and struggled to build a successful business from the ground up. But there have been sacrifices along the way. When Wayne is kidnapped by an ordinary man, Arnold Mack (WILLEM DAFOE), and held for ransom in a remote forest, the couple's world is turned inside out. Watch the trailer at: http://www.foxsearchlight.com/theclearing/index_nyt.html \--/ Confusion Is Rampant With Change in the SAT's May 23, 2004 By TAMAR LEWIN A revised College Board exam, incorporating a writing test and more advanced math, will not make its debut until next spring, but confusion about how to deal with the changes is already rampant. Worry is especially intense among this year's 10th graders, the first class that will confront the new test. Most colleges seem to be leaning toward allowing that transition group, the graduating class of 2006, to submit scores either from the old SAT or the new SAT, and, if an applicant submits both, to consider the highest one. That flexibility creates a unique problem. Should students prepare to take the old SAT next winter, midway through junior year, or should they concentrate on the new format and wait until the spring, or even the fall of senior year? Different people have different answers. At Kaplan Test Prep and Admission, the advice is to take both. "Since so many colleges will take the highest combination of scores from the two tests during this transition year, we recommend that students in the class of 2006 take the current SAT this winter and the new SAT next spring." said Jon Zeitlin, Kaplan's general manager of pre-college programs, in a press release trumpeting the "unique one-time SAT advantage for the class of 2006." At Hathaway Brown, a girls' school outside of Cleveland, the advice is similar. "I think we're going to say go ahead and take it both times," said Anne Ferguson, a Hathaway Brown college counselor. "I guess I'm thinking it could only be a win-win situation." But many guidance counselors see it as a waste of time and energy to prepare for two different tests. "I'd rather have them wait until March, when they've had those extra months of learning and growing, than take the old one in January," said Frank Deady, a guidance counselor at Unionville High School in Pennsylvania. Then, too, some colleges, like those in the University of California system, will accept only the new test. In Manhattan, Inspirica, a tutoring and test-prep company, offered seminars this spring on dealing with the new test, attracting crowds of anxious parents of 10th graders. The parents first learned the basics: the new test will be in three sections, with a perfect score of 2,400, the analogies and quantitative comparisons will be eliminated, and the new writing section will include a short essay and grammar questions. Then they heard about the ripple effects of the changes. "One of the ramifications of the new SAT that no one's talking about yet is what's going to happen to the SAT II subject tests," said Lisa Jacobson, the chief executive of Inspirica. "Now that there's going to be a writing test on the SAT I, the SAT II writing test is going to fall by the wayside. A lot of colleges require people to submit three SAT II's, and some will now drop back to two. But we've heard that some are still going to require three." Many colleges have not yet decided how many to require. "We are waiting for the herd to see what the herd does,'' said Rob Killion, the director of admissions at Haverford College in Pennsylvania. "Out of fairness to the kids, we are waiting for majority rule. We will decide by early fall." Bryn Mawr, Brandeis, Carnegie Mellon, Swarthmore and the University of California will require only two SAT II's, and Bruce Poch, the dean of admissions at Pomona College, said that seemed the likely outcome there, too. "We don't want to test these kids to death," Mr. Poch said. "It's just too much." A few of the most selective schools, Harvard and Yale among them, say they will continue to require three SAT II subject tests, at least for applicants graduating from high school in 2006. But even they sound less than certain how long that decision will hold. Marlyn McGrath Lewis,
ugnet_: FW: NYTimes.com Article: Raid in Sudan Claims 56, Villagers Say
Where the heck is AU?? Original Message Follows From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: NYTimes.com Article: Raid in Sudan Claims 56, Villagers Say Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 15:40:13 -0400 (EDT) The article below from NYTimes.com has been sent to you by [EMAIL PROTECTED] /- E-mail Sponsored by Fox Searchlight \ THE CLEARING - IN THEATERS JULY 2 - WATCH THE TRAILER NOW An official selection of the 2004 Sundance Film Festival, THE CLEARING stars ROBERT REDFORD and HELEN MIRREN as Wayne and Eileen Hayes - a husband and wife living the American Dream. Together they've raised two children and struggled to build a successful business from the ground up. But there have been sacrifices along the way. When Wayne is kidnapped by an ordinary man, Arnold Mack (WILLEM DAFOE), and held for ransom in a remote forest, the couple's world is turned inside out. Watch the trailer at: http://www.foxsearchlight.com/theclearing/index_nyt.html \--/ Raid in Sudan Claims 56, Villagers Say May 24, 2004 By REUTERS NYALA, Sudan, May 23 - Arab militiamen killed at least 56 people in a raid in western Sudan, villagers said Sunday, just days after the government declared the region stable. On Saturday, the militiamen, known as Janjaweed, raided Abga Rajil, a village about 30 miles south of Nyala, the capital of South Darfur State, witnesses said. Abdel-Rahman Rizk, 29, speaking from a hospital bed in Nyala, where he was recovering from a bullet wound to the thigh, said the militiamen arrived on horses, camels and a car and surrounded the village. "They were firing, and people were scattering, and they set fire to the houses and then they started picking off people as they ran out of their houses," he said. Ibrahim Adam, also from the village, said: "The tally of those we buried was 56. Forty of them we buried in one grave." Others from the area gave the same figure, although an official from the Sudan Liberation Army, one of the two main rebel groups in Darfur, said he had understood that 46 had been killed. Independent verification is hard to obtain in the remote Darfur region. Villagers and rights groups accuse the government of arming the Janjaweed to loot and burn African villages and fight a proxy war against rebels who started a revolt last year to demand a fairer share of power and resources. The government denies the accusations, calling the militiamen outlaws. The United Nations says fighting in the impoverished and arid Darfur region has displaced about a million people and created one of the world's worst human calamities. The rebels signed a cease-fire with the government in early April, but have since accused it of several violations. The government said last week that Darfur was stable and that security would be maintained by the police. But many of those displaced from Darfur fear new attacks and are reluctant to return to their homes and fields, where they should now be planting crops ahead of approaching rains. Aid workers fear the spread of disease. "Our priority is health," said Muhammad Abdullah, administrative manager for the Kas region. "These people are out in the open, and the rains will affect the health of the displaced people who are already malnourished." http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/24/international/africa/24suda.html?ex=1086514013ei=1en=38c557512994ec7f - Get Home Delivery of The New York Times Newspaper. Imagine reading The New York Times any time anywhere you like! Leisurely catch up on events expand your horizons. Enjoy now for 50% off Home Delivery! Click here: http://homedelivery.nytimes.com/HDS/SubscriptionT1.do?mode=SubscriptionT1ExternalMediaCode=W24AF HOW TO ADVERTISE - For information on advertising in e-mail newsletters or other creative advertising opportunities with The New York Times on the Web, please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit our online media kit at http://www.nytimes.com/adinfo For general information about NYTimes.com, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Copyright 2004 The New York Times Company Stop worrying about overloading your inbox - get MSN Hotmail Extra Storage! This service is hosted on the Infocom network http://www.infocom.co.ug
ugnet_: FW: NYTimes.com Article: The College Aid Crisis
Original Message Follows From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: NYTimes.com Article: The College Aid Crisis Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 15:34:17 -0400 (EDT) The article below from NYTimes.com has been sent to you by [EMAIL PROTECTED] /- E-mail Sponsored by Fox Searchlight \ THE CLEARING - IN THEATERS JULY 2 - WATCH THE TRAILER NOW An official selection of the 2004 Sundance Film Festival, THE CLEARING stars ROBERT REDFORD and HELEN MIRREN as Wayne and Eileen Hayes - a husband and wife living the American Dream. Together they've raised two children and struggled to build a successful business from the ground up. But there have been sacrifices along the way. When Wayne is kidnapped by an ordinary man, Arnold Mack (WILLEM DAFOE), and held for ransom in a remote forest, the couple's world is turned inside out. Watch the trailer at: http://www.foxsearchlight.com/theclearing/index_nyt.html \--/ The College Aid Crisis May 25, 2004 The College Aid Crisis Nearly a half-million Americans will be turned away from four-year colleges this year for financial reasons, thanks to rising tuition costs and declining state and federal aid for low- and middle-income students. Congress should modify the federal college loan system to deal with this problem. A proposed bill would save billions of dollars that could then be redirected into grants for tuition aid. Right now there are two basic college loan programs. The direct loan system, which actually makes a small profit, allows students to borrow from the government through their schools. Under the vastly more expensive Federal Family Education Loan Program, private banks receive federal subsidies to make government-backed student loans. Colleges can participate in only one of the two systems. In the 1990's, Congress talked about phasing out the costly bank-based program and replacing it with the direct loan program. Such a step could save billions of dollars a year that could be directed into the federal Pell Grant program, which helps pay the college expenses of low-income students with outright grants. This common-sense plan was killed by the banking lobby, but it has returned in the form of a bipartisan House bill known as the Direct Loan Reward Act. The bill would encourage the nation's colleges to participate in the less expensive direct loan program by giving half of the savings to them in the form of Pell Grants for needy students. Backers of the loan reform bill say it could channel enough money into Pell Grants to increase the size of the awards by more than a third at some public colleges, raising the maximum grant to about $6,000 a year. Supporters of the bill calculate that taxpayers may save more than $6 billion annually if all of the nation's colleges and universities move to the direct loan program. But the money saved and the increase in Pell Grants would be substantial even if only a significant fraction of the nation's colleges made the switch. That result alone makes this bill a good idea. http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/25/opinion/25TUE3.html?ex=1086513657ei=1en=57ef4d78cdebe1b4 - Get Home Delivery of The New York Times Newspaper. Imagine reading The New York Times any time anywhere you like! Leisurely catch up on events expand your horizons. Enjoy now for 50% off Home Delivery! Click here: http://homedelivery.nytimes.com/HDS/SubscriptionT1.do?mode=SubscriptionT1ExternalMediaCode=W24AF HOW TO ADVERTISE - For information on advertising in e-mail newsletters or other creative advertising opportunities with The New York Times on the Web, please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit our online media kit at http://www.nytimes.com/adinfo For general information about NYTimes.com, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Copyright 2004 The New York Times Company MSN Toolbar provides one-click access to Hotmail from any Web page FREE download! This service is hosted on the Infocom network http://www.infocom.co.ug
RE: ugnet_: Polls
Ed Kironde, How many times have you voted so far? y From: "Ed Kironde" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "FedsNet" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ugnet_: Polls Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 17:06:46 -0600 Cast Your Vote Political stability and human rights in Uganda will improve under the governance of Reform Agenda 28.4% None 28.1% NRM 22.5% UPC 21.0% Total Votes: 1740 I found this poll on The Monitor and apparently those who do not think that NRM, RA and UPC can bring about political stability were in a photo finish with RA.NRM and UPC are also neck and neck. How about DP, one of Africas oldest political parties?How about PAFO, PIP, NPU and CP? Was the pollster against DP? There are known knowns - there are things that we know that we know. There are known unknowns - that is to say, there are things that we now know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns ... things we do not know we don't know. And each year we discover a few more of those unknown unknowns."Us Secretary of Defense 2001 -? Donald Rumsfeld --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.679 / Virus Database: 441 - Release Date: 5/7/2004 Help STOP spam with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* This service is hosted on the Infocom network http://www.infocom.co.ug
ugnet_: Tell me, where is Ugandas salvation?
To our UPC friends: This fellow, Ms Kanabahita, purports to quote Mzee A M Obote that - he is/was not afraid of a military coup - or something to that effect. The fellow has never read the essay 'A letter to a London friend' by A M Obote. Otherwise, sadly, he misunderstood it completely. Why don't you brothers in UPC avail this gem of Mzee's writing for the youths of Uganda to read and marvel ? ~~~ Tell me, where is Ugandas salvation? SIR There seems to be something fundamentally wrong with Ugandas leadership! Milton Obote abrogated the 1962 constitution and replaced it with what has now come to be known as his pigeon hole constitution. After that he boasted that he was the only African leader who did not fear a military takeover! He had five colleagues who were cabinet ministers arrested from Parliament in 1965 and detained without trial for five years until he was overthrown in 1971! When Idi Amin took over, Ugandans were over the moon because they had had enough of Obotes excesses. But the euphoria was shortlived. He started ruling by decree and slaughtering people became his favourite pastime. He boasted that he feared nobody except God although there was nothing to show any godliness in his behaviour. In his tenure, inflation went through the roof. Before Ugandans knew it, he had declared himself life president! In 1979 he was toppled and Obote came back to start from where he had left off. Five years later he was ejected from power and replaced by the NRM government which gave everybody optimism and hope. Under President Museveni, the NRM has done extremely well, no matter what Musevenis opponents might say. There was a whiff of fresh air and when he declared that his administration was not going to be a change of guard but a fundamental change we all cheered and everything that followed in the early years of his administration seemed to corroborate his declaration. He repeatedly called past leaders swine and in all fairness, they deserve the compliment. I But alas! It is now 18 years later and what do we hear? The self-same Museveni who fought so hard to establish constitutionalism and the rule of law, the man who wrote Sowing the Mustard Seed, has turned around to call the Parliament of Uganda a group. Ugandas legal institutions have suddenly become gymnasiums constructed by lawyers, and the legal processes are mere gymnastics! He is atte mpting to interpret the constitution in bits and pieces against the advice of those who understand the law better! by his self-assessment he is the only Ugandan with a vision, out of the 24 million! The management of peaceful transition seems to be impossible and there seems to be no end to the circus! At this juncture, words fail me! All I can ask is where will Ugandas salvation come from? Joyce Kanabahita Sembabule Published on: Monday, 24th May, 2004 Mitayo Potosi _ MSN Premium: Up to 11 personalized e-mail addresses and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-capage=byoa/premxAPID=1994DI=1034SU=http://hotmail.com/encaHL=Market_MSNIS_Taglines This service is hosted on the Infocom network http://www.infocom.co.ug
RE: ugnet_: Polls
I think the system only allows one IP address; I did not attempt to vote twice to find out if it can be manipulated if that is what you are up to There are known knowns - there are things that we know that we know. There are known unknowns - that is to say, there are things that we now know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns ... things we do not know we don't know. And each year we discover a few more of those unknown unknowns. Us Secretary of Defense 2001 -? Donald Rumsfeld -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Y Yaobang Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 7:27 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: ugnet_: Polls Ed Kironde, How many times have you voted so far? y From: Ed Kironde [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: FedsNet [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ugnet_: Polls Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 17:06:46 -0600 Cast Your Vote Political stability and human rights in Uganda will improve under the governance of Reform Agenda 28.4% None 28.1% NRM 22.5% UPC 21.0% Total Votes: 1740 I found this poll on The Monitor and apparently those who do not think that NRM, RA and UPC can bring about political stability were in a photo finish with RA.NRM and UPC are also neck and neck. How about DP, one of Africas oldest political parties?How about PAFO, PIP, NPU and CP? Was the pollster against DP? There are known knowns - there are things that we know that we know. There are known unknowns - that is to say, there are things that we now know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns ... things we do not know we don't know. And each year we discover a few more of those unknown unknowns.Us Secretary of Defense 2001 -? Donald Rumsfeld --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.679 / Virus Database: 441 - Release Date: 5/7/2004 Help STOP spam with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* This service is hosted on the Infocom network http://www.infocom.co.ug --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.679 / Virus Database: 441 - Release Date: 5/7/2004 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.679 / Virus Database: 441 - Release Date: 5/7/2004
ugnet_: UGANDA MUST END TORTURE TO DEATH IN CUSTODY
Uganda REPUBLIC OF UGANDA Head of state and government: Yoweri Kaguta Museveni Death penalty: retentionist UN Women's Convention: ratified Optional Protocol to UN Women's Convention: not signed Further information Uganda: Soldiers executed after unfair trial (AI Index: AFR 59/004/2003) Uganda: Urgent need to end torture following death in custody (AI Index: AFR 59/009/2003) Uganda: Open letter to all members of parliament in Uganda urging rejection of the impunity agreement with USA concerning the ICC (AI Index: AFR 59/008/2003) All AI documents on Uganda Covering events from January - December 2003 Rulings by the Constitutional Court allowed political organizations to participate more freely in public life. Reports of torture increased against a background of government campaigns against crime and terrorism. The 17-year conflict between the government and the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) intensified, resulting in a sharp rise in the number of internally displaced persons to over 1,200,000. There were many cases of violence against women. Freedom of speech was subject to additional restrictions. Death sentences continued to be passed and at least three soldiers were executed. Background On 21 March the Constitutional Court declared Sections 18, 19 and 21 of the Political Parties and Organizations Act (2002) null and void as they contravened the Constitution. This allowed political organizations to participate more freely in public life, although political parties remained banned from such participation until they registered with the Registrar General. In June Uganda signed a bilateral agreement with the USA providing impunity for US nationals accused by the International Criminal Court (ICC) of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes. US President George W. Bush visited Uganda in July. The Sudanese government extended the military protocol allowing Uganda to carry out military operations in southern Sudan against the LRA. Senior Ugandan army officers and others were cited as responsible for pillaging resources from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in a report by a UN panel of experts and in the report of Uganda's official Inquiry Commission headed by Judge David Porter. In early May the Uganda People's Defence Forces (UPDF) began withdrawing troops from eastern DRC following pressure by the international community. On 7 November the International Court of Justice postponed the hearing in a case against Uganda concerning armed activities involving violations of international humanitarian law and massive human rights violations in the DRC. Violence against women Violence against women prevailed in male-female relations in Uganda. Few cases of sexual violence in the home, including rape in marriage and rape of minors, were prosecuted. Children, including orphans, were frequently subjected to sexual assault and violence by relatives within the extended family system, as well as by schoolteachers, people helping in the home and other carers. According to police statistics circulated in May, 4,686 children were raped in 2002; there was no indication that this figure was decreasing. Alice, aged 12, was brought from her native village to Kampala by a maternal aunt who promised to send her to school. She was left alone with the aunt's husband, who allegedly raped her three times in one night, threatening to kill her if she talked. The girl reportedly told her aunt about the rape, but the aunt accused her of seducing the husband and beat her in the area of her genitals. The rape was reported to the police but the case was later dropped. The absence of a law criminalizing domestic violence limited legal recourse for abuse in the home. Between January and September, 2,518 cases of family-related violence (excluding murder and rape) were reported to the Childcare and Family Protection Unit of the Uganda Police Force. However, many cases went unreported and campaigners argued that the lack of a specific law hampered efforts to fight domestic violence. In December a Domestic Relations Bill was presented to parliament for debate. It addressed issues such as the criminalization of marital rape, property in marriage, polygamous marriages, bride price, widow inheritance and minimum age for marriage and cohabitation. Women and girls living and travelling in areas affected by insurgencies led by the LRA in northern Uganda were raped and suffered other forms of violence, including abduction and sexual slavery. On 24 June about 100 schoolgirls were abducted by the LRA following a raid at the Lwala Girls Secondary School in Kaberamaido district in northeast Uganda. AI was concerned that at least 15 of the girls might have crossed into Sudan where they could be at risk of sexual violence. Torture and death in custody Throughout the year operatives from the police, various security agencies and the
