ugnet_: A FOREIGN POLICY, FALLING APART

2004-05-23 Thread Edward Mulindwa
A Foreign Policy, Falling Apart By Robert G. KaiserSunday, May 23, 2004; Page B01 We have come to a delicate moment in an absorbing drama. The

ugnet_: Musambwa Island:No Sex!.Men prefer snakes,birds

2004-05-23 Thread Owor Kipenji
Article Published on: 20th May 2004. Musambwa Island: No Sex! Men prefer snakes, birds By Carolyne NakazibweWEEKLY OBSERVER A place where women are prohibited to step? A place where cobras, pythons, monitor lizards and human beings share houses? A place where the beach is all rocks and

ugnet_: School chief in acid attack

2004-05-23 Thread Owor Kipenji
School chief in acid attack By Richard M. Kavuma May 24, 2004 KAMPALA- A director at Crescent High School at Busega is blind in one eye after an acid attack on Friday night. Mr Abdul Buule, 34, was admitted to Lubaga Hospital together with his teacher, Mr Abdallah Ggalabuzi. Buule’s face was st

ugnet_: Are false prohets invading schools?

2004-05-23 Thread Owor Kipenji
Are false prophets invading schools? By Solomon Muyita May 24, 2004 GAYAZA-Is it another trouble in waiting or merely one of those new religions that are born every other day? A strange religious conviction has again been born, but this time, in an education institution. About 10 miles north of

ugnet_: Sonia Gandhi's political masterstroke of all time

2004-05-23 Thread Owor Kipenji
Letter to A Kampala Friend: By Muniini K. Mulera In Toronto Sonia Gandhi's political masterstroke of all time May 24, 2004 Dear Tingasiga:Add a few more paradoxes to the story of India, that grand and ancient land that has enchanted and mesmerized humanity for centuries. Picture this.

ugnet_: How love with a schoolgirl never remains secret

2004-05-23 Thread Owor Kipenji
How love with a schoolgirl never remains secret Comment: By Michael J. Ssali May 24, 2004 It is not easy to write about a topic like this one without recalling the words of the great English poet and novelist, David H Lawrence popularly known as DH Lawrence who wrote: "Sex is not a thing just t

ugnet_: Academics'book on Arabs linked to abuse

2004-05-23 Thread Owor Kipenji
Academic's book on Arabs linked to abuse By Andrew Buncombe in Washington 22 May 2004   http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=523703   Raphael Patai's seminal work, The Arab Mind, published in 1973 and later revised, was aimed at being a "journey of observation through the

ugnet_: Academics'book on Arabs linked to abuse

2004-05-23 Thread Owor Kipenji
Academic's book on Arabs linked to abuse By Andrew Buncombe in Washington 22 May 2004   http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=523703   Raphael Patai's seminal work, The Arab Mind, published in 1973 and later revised, was aimed at being a "journey of observation through the

ugnet_: The Other Prisoners

2004-05-23 Thread Mitayo Potosi
The Other Prisoners By Luke Harding The Guardian U.K. Thursday 20 May 2004 Most of the coverage of abuse at Abu Ghraib has focused on male detainees. But what of the five women held in the jail, and the scores elsewhere in Iraq? The scandal at Abu Ghraib prison was first exposed not by a di

ugnet_: This Land Was Our Land

2004-05-23 Thread Mitayo Potosi
Some of us have always vehemently opposed Ronald Muwenda Mutebi 's chicanery in conniving to sell off the tombs of his forefathers to Oil companies, or when he ass-kisses m7 by giving him our 'Butikkiro' (Katikkiro's residence) with the nonsense that him, m7, will build us a better Butikkiro - a

ugnet_: THE ANARCHY....................(Part three)

2004-05-23 Thread Edward Mulindwa
On the night of the 27th/March/2003 I was picked from my cell at around 11.00pm,blindfolded and chained to the vehicle anddriven for about 30minutes to a house  in a quiet place in the city.This house looked quiet from the outside but on entering inside,I heard cries of some people inside th

ugnet_: THE ANARCHY .........................(Part two)

2004-05-23 Thread Edward Mulindwa
PERSONAL ACCOUNT OF THE PERSECUTION:On or about May 2001 while in Gulu,I was asked to report to the Regional Criminal Investigation Department (CID) office ,of the Uganda Police Force and asked to make a statement about what I knew about Lt.Col. Samson Mande`s and Lt. Col. Antony Kyakabale`s

ugnet_: THE ANARCHY OF NORTHERN UGANDA CONTINUES (Part one)

2004-05-23 Thread Edward Mulindwa
A WITNESS AND VICTIM OF TORTURE AND POLITICAL VIOLENCE-THE TRADEMARK OF THE CURRENT DICTATORIAL REGIME OF UGANDA:1:INTRODUCTION-BACKGROUND:I am Doctor Wilbrode Okungu. A university graduate of Makerere university: who holds a bachelor of medicine  and bachelor of surgery(MBChB) and graduated

ugnet_: JOB LOSSES ANGER PEOPLE- NRM NO CHANGE

2004-05-23 Thread Matekopoko
Job losses anger people The political situation in Uganda today is rather complex. The Kategayas, Matembes, Bidandis, Pulkols etc are now blaming the officers they honestly served for long. Are they the ones who have been soiling the Government, or is it the Government that has been soiling the

ugnet_: One simply cannot fight or shoot ideas with a GUN..(as in UPC Ideas)..Museveni will FAIL

2004-05-23 Thread Matekopoko
Sooner or later those who can THINK will Think. and then the GUN would have failed!! Matek Bundibugyo protest a pointer I have read with disbelief the story which appeared in the Monitor of Monday, May 17, 2004 under the heading "Bundibugyo residents to hold demo" to protest what they call P

ugnet_: Vote "wisely" Mbale residents argued

2004-05-23 Thread Matekopoko
Wake up, Mbale municipality The seat of the member of Parliament fell vacant at the death of Mr James Wapakhabulo (RIP). The late was one of the greatest politicians Uganda has ever had. Recently the President of Uganda took time of his busy schedule to visit Mbale to convince aspiring movement

ugnet_: DO not militarise politics.... Too late now!..NRM NO change

2004-05-23 Thread Matekopoko
Do not militarise politics Militarisation of politics finally leads to unbearable human economic and political costs. Uganda is at the forefront as a case study. What a mess our leaders have meted upon the populace! We all know that when military men and women get into deciding the political ev

ugnet_:

2004-05-23 Thread Edward Mulindwa
   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_: so who fled Rwanda through Uganda?..somebody translate this Kinyarwanda

2004-05-23 Thread Matekopoko
So who fled Rwanda through Uganda?..and for what reason?.. rwandanet-digest Sunday, May 23 2004 Volume 09 : Number 004 In this issue: rwandanet: Sharangabo nkwibalize rwandanet: Ubanza Ubwiyunge bw'abanyarwanda bufite ibibazo bikomeye!!! -

ugnet_: Iraq wants to recover debt from Museveni's Uganda

2004-05-23 Thread Matekopoko
THE INDIAN OCEAN NEWSLETTER - 22/05/2004 - Iraq wants to recover a debt A delegation of executives of the Iraq Fund for International Development is to go to Kampala next month in order to meet with President Yoweri Museveni about the non-repayment by the Ugandan government of a debt valued at $6

ugnet_: David Pulkol wants to sell services

2004-05-23 Thread Matekopoko
THE INDIAN OCEAN NEWSLETTER - 22/05/2004 - From secret service to opposition David Pulkol, the former director general of the External Security Organization (ESO) who recently opposed a change in the constitution that would enable President Yoweri Museveni to run for a third presidential mandate

ugnet_: ..and now some international News..according to AFP ( Agency France Press)

2004-05-23 Thread Matekopoko
20 Iraqis dead in mosque battle but political costs mount for Bush (23/05/2004) KUFA, Iraq (AFP) Twenty Iraqis were killed when US-led forces raided a mosque here, but despite repeated tactical victories the political costs of the war in Iraq were rising for US President George W. Bush.

ugnet_: Rwanda capital steps up security

2004-05-23 Thread Matekopoko
Rwandan capital steps up security By Robert Walker BBC, Rwanda Genocide suspects are believed to be trying to avoid trial at village courts In Rwanda's capital, Kigali, new restrictions have been introduced on those wanting to come to the city from rural areas. Those without a fixed add

ugnet_: Please translate

2004-05-23 Thread Matekopoko
UGANDA 22/5/2004 21:05 ALMENO DUEMILA SFOLLATI DOPO ATTACCO DEI RIBELLI A LUKODE General, Standard Sarebbero almeno 2000 gli sfollati bisognosi di aiuti immediati a causa dellâultimo massacro compiuto in nord Uganda, giovedà scorso, dal sedicente âEsercito di Liberazione del Signoreâ (L

ugnet_: another one please translate

2004-05-23 Thread Matekopoko
UGANDA 22/5/2004 1:53 GULU: NUOVI ATTACCHI, RIBELLI PROMETTONO ANCORA VIOLENZA General, Brief I ribelli del sedicente Esercito di liberazione del signore (Lra) hanno attaccato il campo profughi di Lokome, a 11 chilometri da Gulu, principale città dellâUganda settentrionale. Fonti della M

ugnet_: It is like Washington Post:"if you don't get it...You don't GET IT"

2004-05-23 Thread Matekopoko
Burundi: Thousands More Displaced in Latest Fighting Email This Page Print This Page Visit The Publisher's Site UN Integrated Regional Information Networks May 17, 2004 Posted to the web May 17, 2004 Bujumbura An estimated 20,000 people have been displaced in Burundi

ugnet_: Threat to peace Process-Burundi

2004-05-23 Thread Matekopoko
Threat to Peace Process Email This Page Print This Page Visit The Publisher's Site Mail & Guardian (Johannesburg) May 18, 2004 Posted to the web May 21, 2004 Jean-Jacques Cornish Delays and intransigence in the Great Lakes are threatening the delicate mediation achie

ugnet_: Interesting ..are we to conclude that the S.Africans Failed?

2004-05-23 Thread Matekopoko
Let me predict ..this mission too will most likely fail as long as the fundamental question as to why Hutus are rebeling is not addressed. Matek Security Council Approves 5,600-Strong Peacekeeping Operation Email This Page Print This Page Visit The Publisher's Site

ugnet_: Paris

2004-05-23 Thread Paul Njoki
PARIS, France -- At least five people were killed and three others injured when a massive section of a vaulted ceiling collapsed at a new passenger terminal at Paris' Charles de Gaulle airport, officials said. Slabs of concrete and metal came crashing down from the ceiling onto a seated waitin

ugnet_: A Paris airport section has collapsed

2004-05-23 Thread Edward Mulindwa
      Netters   We are getting reports that Charles Deggule in Paris has collapsed a section and people are confirmed dead. Watch out for that as we are getting more info about it. Yes we know many of our people use that airport as a gate way to and from Africa.   May God be with those who ha

ugnet_: Uganda's poor hope for more gorilla dollars -BBC

2004-05-23 Thread Omar Kezimbira
Last Updated: Friday, 21 May, 2004, 07:35 GMT 08:35 UK - BBC  E-mail this to a friend Printable version Uganda's poor hope for more gorilla dollars By Orla Ryan In Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda One of the world's most expensive tourist attractions is found in on