ugnet_: A Full Police Investigation Report Should Released
UPDATES http://www.idr.co.ug/dfwa-u/gallery.htm The Speaker of Parliament Hon Edward Ssekandi Deputy Speaker- Hon Kadaga Members of Parliament IGP. Major. Wamala Katumba CID Elizabeth Kutesa Vice President Prof. Gilbert Balibaseka Bukenya Prime Minister Hon. Apollo Nsibambi Minister of Foreign Affairs Hon. James Wapakhabulo Minister of State for Security - President's Office Hon. Betty Akech Minister of Internal Affair Hon. Dr. Ruhakana Rugunda Minister Of Justice Hon. Janat Mukywaya All Political Party Leaders - We in the Democratic Farmers Workers Alliance Uganda; have adequately discussed our political line and action on the subject matter. - We are DEMANDING the government of Uganda to explain to the nation why the assassins AND NOT THE PLANNERS (MASTER MINDER) of the murder of Professor Dan Mudoola (Prof. Dan Mudhola ) are in jail? - The premeditated assassination of Professor Dan Mudoola is on our agenda of hunting down past crime master minders that must be resolved if Uganda is to go forward. - We are demanding that the full police investigation report in the assassination of Prof. Dan Mudoola be made public to all Uganda news media, the Uganda parliament and the Uganda High Court. - That a full process of where and how the murder weapons used in the assassination of the Hon. Professor Dan Mudoola came into the possession of criminals. - DFWA-U wants to make it very clear - the planners, the master minders of the assassination of Professor Dan Mudoola must be brought up to justice as a matter of AGENCY. - If this condition is not met fully, within the full limits of the Uganda laws we are going to use other means the constitutional offers us to reach our gaols and unravel the conspirators covering criminals. - For all political forces covering up such criminals and their acts their days are numbered and MUST COME OUT IN FULL; for once and disassociate themselves for murders under the Uganda courts of Law. - Otherwise they the political forces are part of the criminals and criminal gangs who have been murdering our people with impunity. - The people who planned and caused the murdered of Professor Dan Mudoola should face justice NOT ONLY small EXECUTIONERS. - All our supporters to do as we have done in the past demand and forward detailed information of the political forces behind shielding criminals in our society using taxpayers money and in particular the assassination of Professor Dan Mudoola to all members. No Uganda will ever again die in vain to serve political goals When Festo Androa Asenua sought divine intervention to kill from the traditional shrine of witchdoctor Ali in Geregere village, in Lugazi, his wish was granted. Androa together with Joseph Denis Kakooza were hired assassins, contracted by people from the October 9th Movement. Their target was Prof. Dan Mudhola, then vice chairman of the Constitutional Review Commission. The mission was to eliminate Mudhola and frustrate the Commission's work. On February 20, 1993 at 7.30p.m as Mudhola, with a colleague Dr Francis Kidubuka, were having a drink at Container Bar next to Paris Hotel in Wandegeya, Androa and Kakooza hurled a grenade, that sniffed them out, and seriously injured Prof. Katorobo - all dons at Makerere University. Everything had gone according to plan but ghosts, which haunted Androa, compelled him to go to Ali - for cleansing. Ali advised his client to dance at the grave of one of his relatives in Lugazi. But he had also tipped off the police after hearing a narration of the killings. As Androa danced at the grave one evening, the police swooped down on him and he was hauled in. But his associate, Kakooza, had disappeared. Several months later, however, Kakooza stole a bicycle and he was arrested. After being in custody for days, he confessed to a police constable that he could not live with the haunting voices of the dons he had helped kill in Wandegeya. Uganda's most notorious men: How they were caught Monitor Jan 18 - 24, 2004 DWAF-U __ bwanika url: www.idr.co.ug Logon & Join in ug-academicsdb discussion list http://www.coollist.com/subcribe.html List ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your Email address: ~~ ~~ url: http://uhpl.uganda.co.ug http://pub59.ezboard.com/fugandamanufacturersassociationfrm1
ugnet_: GM mosquito strategy for malaria suffers setback
GM mosquito strategy for malaria suffers setback Aedes aegypti Andrea Rinaldi21 January 2004Source: SciDev.Net Hopes of tackling diseases such as malaria by creating genetically modified (GM) mosquitoes that resist parasite and viral infections have suffered a setback following new research confirming that such mosquitoes may be less able to survive than their normal counterparts. The findings come from a study of the Aedes aegypti mosquito, which transmits yellow fever and dengue, published this month in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The researchers, led by Nic Irvin from the University of California, United States, analysed how well GM mosquitoes were able to survive and reproduce compared to normal laboratory mosquitoes. They found that GM mosquitoes performed worse than their normal counterparts, indicating that GM mosquitoes would probably be poor competitors against naturally occurring strains of mosquito. This could hinder potential disease-control strategies that rely on releasing GM mosquitoes into the wild, as these depend on the GM strains being successful and spreading resistance to the disease throughout the population. The results back up a study published last year on a different type of mosquito Anopheles stephensi, which transmits malaria that also suggested that GM mosquitoes were less well able to survive than their normal counterparts (see GM mosquitoes not fit enough). According to Anthony James, a specialist in GM insect vectors at the University of California at Irvine, United States, however, the findings do not mean that GM mosquitoes cannot be used to combat human diseases. I do not see findings that transgenic insects are less fit than laboratory or wild-type mosquitoes to be a major challenge to the use of transgenics to control disease transmission, he says. I take it as a given that any [gene] inserted into the genome of a mosquito would [reduce the changes of survival of] that mosquito. He says that the study provides a good set of parameters by which to measure how well different types of GM mosquitoes can survive and reproduce. "Having these measurements will help in comparing different strains of genes, he adds. Link to abstract of research paper in PNAS by Nic Irvin et al - FN Lugemwa Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it!
ugnet_: NYT: How a Goat Led a Girl Up the Path to an Education
Nancy Palmieri for The New York TimesBeatrice Biira, in her dormitory room at Northfield Mount Hermon in Massachusetts. January 25, 2004 How a Goat Led a Girl Up the Path to an EducationBy STEPHANIE STROM ORTHFIELD, Mass. A goat is responsible for Beatrice Biira's arrival from her home village just south of the Equator in Uganda to this frosty New England town, where even thermal underwear, sturdy duck boots and a puffy parka fail to keep the cold from her bones. Without the goat, Miss Biira would almost certainly never have gone to school or finished filling out applications to 11 American colleges and universities, from Manchester College in Indiana to Harvard. "I did the applications with all my heart," she said. "But they ask so many questions. Why would someone want to know all that about anyone?" She is the answer to her own question. Three years ago, Miss Biira was immortalized in a best-selling children's book published by Simon Schuster, "Beatrice's Goat," which tells how a goat named Mugisa a gift from an international charity called Heifer International helped her get an education. By selling Mugisa's milk and offspring, Miss Biira's family was able to send her, and later her seven brothers and sisters, to school. "I just want people to understand what a big difference a goat can make in peoples' lives," she said. For 60 years, Heifer International has provided needy families around the world with livestock ranging from water buffaloes to bees as a stepping stone to self-sufficiency. For most of that time, Heifer toiled away in relative obscurity, but like Miss Biira, who is 19, it is now coming of age. A decade ago, it was raising $6 million to $7 million a year, largely from church organizations, said Mike Matchett, its marketing director. "Marketing was pretty much a dirty word around here," Mr. Matchett said. Nowadays, Heifer is championed by celebrities, and last year it raised $56 million. The simplicity of its approach and its track record appeal to many donors. As Miss Biira explains: "I'm not criticizing people who give 10 sacks of food to the needy, because what they do is necessary. But in one month or two weeks, that food will be finished and the people who received it will again be hungry. An animal like a goat brings immediate help." Last year, Heifer was incorporated into the script for an episode of "The West Wing," thanks to the support of a cast member, Bradley Whitford. "The Motley Fool," the idiosyncratic investment guide, has hailed Heifer, and in 2002, Miss Biira was a guest on "The Oprah Winfrey Show," because Ms. Winfrey is a Heifer supporter. In collaboration with Scholastic Inc., the organization has started a school-based program called Read to Feed, in which students raise money for Heifer by getting sponsors to pay them for the books they read. Some $200,000 was raised through the program last year. "They have to be one of our 10 best-known charities right now," said Trent Stamp, executive director of Charity Navigator, an online charities rating organization. Charity Navigator, however, gives Heifer only two stars out of a potential four because it regards the organization's fund-raising costs as high. "They're raising a lot of money, but they're spending a lot to do it, nearly 21 cents of every dollar, and this is something that concerns many donors," Mr. Stamp said. The average for the more than 300 other international relief agencies rated by Charity Navigator is 8 cents, but Mr. Matchett said that large relief organizations, unlike Heifer, often receive big government grants, which lower fund-raising expenses. "We're getting little gifts from the grass roots, and that's more expensive to do," he said. There is also no way for the organization to count the multiplier effect its gifts have. Every recipient of a Heifer animal is charged with passing it on by giving the first female offspring to someone else in need. "It becomes a chain," Miss Biira said. "Almost everyone in my village now has a goat." Mugisa, the Biiras's first goat, is still alive, although she no longer bears kids. Her first offspring, a male named Mulindwa, also remains with the family, which has three other goats. Heifer has never financed Miss Biira's education, which would fall outside its mission. She showed such promise in primary school, breezing through first, second and third grades in three months each, that Dick Young, the producer of a Heifer film that features Miss Biira as a young girl, helped pay for her to attend what she calls "a fancy girls' school" in Kampala, Uganda. With a family income of less than $1,000 a year, Miss Biira's education would have stopped right there. Instead, she won a full scholarship for a postgraduate year at Northfield Mount Hermon School, a boarding school here, and some Heifer supporters have put together a "Friends of Beatrice" fund to cover incidentals. She is hoping her academic record, test scores and story will win her a
RE: ugnet_: Kabaka to Meet Sudan Elders Over LRA Rebels
Gook: What's your point?? Are you simply just feeding on Mulindwa's misinfomation?? Or you've got an idea you can let out and let us know about it?? Zakoomu R.gook makanga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You are right on Mulindwa! Gook "You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom."- Malcom X Original Message Follows From: "Mulindwa Edward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>CC: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Subject: ugnet_: Kabaka to Meet Sudan Elders Over LRA Rebels Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 21:05:47 -0500 You know a good bunch of postings in this forum are not worth the time to respond, but this one surely deserves a second. You see it is such uncritical thinking and reasoning that Museveni feeds on. For example what makes one think that Uganda Districts are at war between each other? is Bunyoro's problem today Busoga? Is West Nile in confrontation with Lango? You can not put districts on a round table unless they are at log-heads. And Uganda districts are not. (Democratic and Cultural) What does that exactly mean? Is Buganda at war with West Nile for West Nile girls do not kneel down when they are greeting people yet Baganda girls do? So you want to put these two districts at a round ta b le to discuss their differences? Red this one " Political parties should contest in regional politics (democratic) and traditional / cultural posts should be left to be set through traditional customs and norms. The separation of democratic politics from cultural politics should emphasized even if both kinds of politics will at one point or the other get intertwined, They'll have to be separated, written in the law of the land." What exactly does that sentence mean? sounds like "We have allot of unknowns that we know we do not know whether we know them, but when we know what we do not know we will tell you when we know what we do not know" Huh? How can you get an entity in Uganda which runs the political arena and the cultural arena at the same time? Look "Separation of democratic politics from cultural politics should be emphasized even if both kinds of politics will at one point or the other get intertwined" So am I to understand that the intertwining of Buganda c ultura l and political matters have tought us nothing so far, or it is me on dope? And how do you separate regional and national politics by law, "By law" yet at times it will be intertwined? Are we talking about federalism here or feudalism? It is such nonsense that has become Museveni's daily food bank, for on such suggestions he plans a round table to make Districts make a workable setting. It is these same brains that are today jumping with hoofs for Museveni wants to discuss the opening up of party politics. When will you ever learn Ugandans? For the record districts sit on a table to discuss how to use their resources if Federalism is introduced. Uganda's districts have no resources what so ever, everything has been grandly looted to the extent that even Kilembe mines has been closed. The entire north has been shut down for ages. More than half of Buganda's land has been sold to the Boers. What is it that is going to be put on the table to negoti ate with? W hat we need in uganda is leadership, we need a government, we need to start, we need to put our people back in homes. And Zakoomu is a classic example of how much Federalists hate Northern Uganda and Northerners, for there is no way any body with a brain of a pea size, can decide to make Northern Uganda a federal State today. These are people who have been destroyed by their government, it has been a government policy to destroy the North, these people have not slept in homes for 20 years, and the only way North can get on their feet both financially and psychologically is by being up lifted by the rest of the entire nation. it is sad that the federalists want to abandon Northern Uganda to its own. But hey what do you expect from a bunch of people who have a philosophy based on miss information and disinformation, being fade on a society of the Zakoomu's who are un critical thinkers? It sucks trust me. And we might be quite but we are watching, be ware. Em The Mulindwas Communication Group "With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy" Groupe de communication Mulindwas "avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie" - Original Message - From: Rehema Mukooza To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2004 7:07 PM Subject: Re: ugnet_: Kabaka to Meet Sudan Elders Over LRA Rebels Lupa-Lasaga: You've got a nice point here with your question: What is the best strategy for bringing about federalism in Uganda? Below are my contributions towards an answer. 1st. getting all districts under "regions" together at the round table and discuss their union and how they are going to make things work in their union. 2nd. getting regions (Busoga, Bunyoro, Acholi, Lango, W.Nile, Ankole, Tooro, Kigezi, etc) to
ugnet_: Uganda's Benevolent Dictatorship -J.OLOKA-ONYANGO
Uganda's Benevolent Dictatorship J. OLOKA-ONYANGO J. OLOKA-ONYANGO teaches at Makerere University in Uganda and was recently a visiting professor at Harvard Law School. His latest book is The Dynamics of Constitutional Politics in Uganda (Dakar, Senegal: CODESRIA, 1997). Few contemporary political and socioeconomic transitions on the African continent have been as dramatic or contradictory as Uganda's. Just over a decade ago, the National Resistance Movement-Army (NRM-A) became the second guerrilla organization to assume power in independent Africa (the first happened in Chad). After being sworn in as president of Uganda in January 1986, Yoweri Kaguta Museveni proclaimed the era he was ushering in was more than the usual changing of the guard to which the people of Uganda had become accustomed. It was, he declared, nothing short of Fundamental Change! Many who heard Museveni hoped his words were true, having experienced a series of violent political shifts since independence from Britain in October 1962 Against the backdrop of vicious military dictatorships such as that led by the cantankerous Field Marshal Idi Amin throughout the 1970s, civilian autocracy under Apollo Milton Obote in the early to mid-1980s, and a period of anarchy instituted by the Uganda National Liberation Army (UNLA) intermediately preceding the NRM-A takeover, Ugandans had grown weary of conflict and incessant, extraconstitutional changes in government. FROM BREADBASKET TO BASKET CASE The turmoil in Uganda in the 1970s and 1980s yielded human rights violations on a scale nearly unmatched in postcolonial Africa: moreover, civil war and social strife left orphans and widows in their wake, and economic dislocation removed essentials like sugar, soap, and wheat flour from the market stalls. Uganda became an economic basket case. Smuggling and magendo (black marketeering) replaced normal trade, and inflation soared into the triple digits. Given the people's experience Of marauding government armies that were more likely to loot, rape, and intimidate the local populace than to engage the enemy, reports of Museveni's disciplined guerrilla band heightened hopes that the change he promised would indeed he genuine and fundamental. The NRM-A was created following elections in December 1980 that were widely believed to have been rigged by Obote's Uganda People's Congress (UPC). Museveni decided to take the fight against the electoral fraud to the bush, where he crafted the guiding philosophy of the NRM-A into a 10-point program that emphasized participatory democracy, the elimination of sectarianism , and respect for human rights. Beginning with only a handful of supporters, the insurgency grew until it came to occupy the Luwero Triangle, a wide swath of territory in the central region of Buganda. A combination of internal wrangling and battle fatigue eventually led the UNLA to turn against Obote in a military coup, paving the way for NRM-A victory in the war in l986 and Museveni's accession to power. Today Museveni's slogan has become No Change! a campaign chant employed by the NRM to great effect in the May 1996 presidential elections. The elections marked the coming of age for the NRM and the Uganda People's Defense Forces (UPDF), the renamed military wing of the NRM. No Change! was used as a battle cry for the continued endorsement of the NRM regime, which, according to Museveni, had achieved its goal of fundamental change by in introducing a lasting sense of peace and security. In the event that some might have forgotten this, the NRM used the image of sculls from the Luwero Triangle and the sound of gunshots in its electoral campaign advertising. The message was simple: a vote against Museveni was a vote for a reversion to the chaos of the past. No PARTY, NO CHANGE The 1996 elections were significant for a variety of other reasons. Not only were they Uganda's first direct presidential elections, they were also a test of the various experiments in governance that had been introduced by the NRM since 1986. Among the most Significant of these experiments is the noparty or movement system of government Against the return of multiparty political systems that has swept the continent since the late 1980s, the NRM has held out the alternative of a no-party system Arguing that political parties are divisive, sectarian, and unsuited for preindustrial societies such as Uganda, the NRM has prevented opposition political parties from effectively operating or challenging the hegemony of the movement system. This view of politics was endorsed in the 1995 constitution. While the new constitution has several progressive provisions, such as those mandating affirmative action for women, its basic intent is to place political parties in suspended animation. Parties are permitted only to issue statements to the press. Organizing party congresses, holding public rallies, and openly campaigning
RE: ugnet_: Are Africa Needs Exaggerated?. Food for Thought
Mr. Kachingwe has a point. But he has to realise that the media is own by certain interests. It may be in the interests of the owner to portray Africa the way they do. The onus is on us to correct their views when warranted. One the other hand, almost uniformly, African governments have yet woken up to the value and utility of fundamental data that is readily and "predictably-regularly" available. As such, even well-meaning donors may put out estimates that are way off the mark -- especially in stuations in which it behooves one to err on the side of caution, e.g. overstating the extent and intensity of food-shortages. Lack of data familiarity with the situation also allows inexperienced 'expatriates' to make recommendations that can have terrible consequencies. E.g. If my annual income is, say, US $3,000what would say if you found me cruising around in the latest BMW; given that theire is nothing inherently wrong in owning such an auto? By the same token, aid agencies, sometimes make recommendations to African governments that are in and of themselves good in, say UK, but possibly disastrous of the economy, etc in say Chad. African countries sometimes have no choice but try to implement such 'Don Quixotic' schemes -- especially since often those same donor hold the purse strings to grants to get things going. Ex: Kenya's Moi one day simply announced that the govt was going to supply all primary school children in the nation with milk with near-immediate effect! Did he consult the min. finance? min. agric? how was the milk -- a perishable commodity -- going to be distributed in Northern Kenya or elsewhere? Later our fearless, leader was to announce, on the advice (insistence?) of Paris-bound UNESCO -- only he told the rest of us it was his wise vision ...: Let there be UPE! And shazam! it was... One canget an idea of how UNESCO remote-controls, world-wide, thiswhite-elephant through its 'Education For All' (EFA) program at: http://www2.unesco.org/wef/countryreports/home.html-- be sure to check out Uganda's report. Aside from the obvious fact that, Uganda not having a shotrage of primary school dropouts -- the fate of the majority of participants-- and that the moneys could have been more cost-effectively used to build, furnish support at least one technical school to cater for A-Level O-Level leavers not bound for higher education --- the main beneficiaries of this boondoggle are likely to be the careers lifestyles of Paris-bound bureaucrats who oversee,coordinate and administer it. Since, almost to an individual,African rulers could care less about the interests of theirrespective countries, these white-elephants aren't going to die anytime soon. My guess is that, such bait-and-switch operations will continue to bleed Africa for at least one century. Original Message Follows From: Owor Kipenji <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ugnet_: AreAfrica Needs Exaggerated?. Food for Thought Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 14:03:47 + (GMT) Are Africa Needs Exaggerated? The Times of Zambia (NDola) OPINION By KELVIN KACHINGWE January 23, 2004 http://www.times.co.zm/news/viewnews.cgi?category=8id=1074836080 RECENTLY, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) reported that a group of leading charities in the United Kingdom overstated the seriousness of the African food shortages in 2002 and 2003. According to auditors Valid International, some fund-raising campaigns had talked of famine or a crisis of biblical proportions, which was an exaggeration. Apart from using misleading and emotive language, the audit said some charities involved in raising US$29 million did not consult local people enough and did not therefore fully understand their needs. As a case in point, the audit cited one charity that provided an expensive diesel pump to irrigate a small field where a foot pump would have been sufficient. However, a spokesperson for the charities umbrella Disasters Emergency Committee, Richard Miller says they would in future pay more attention to what the people needed exactly. The BBCs Stephanie Irvine says the report does not question the validity of charities running campaigns for disaster prevention, but rather suggests ways in which those campaigns could work more effectively. That said however, the revelation that some charities overstated the grimness of the food crisis in Southern Africa only goes to raise questions about the validity of most information coming from the West about Africa. For a very long time now, Africans have expressed worry at the Western media for sensationalising the negative side of Africa. Most Africans have complained at what is seen to be biased reportage of African issues by the Western media in that most of them only concentrate on the wars and poverty pirating the continent. It is this kind of scenario that has
ugnet_: FW: TheUgandan.com (Quick Poll)
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