It is his first term, not third, not fifth
By James Tumusiime
Feb 7, 2004
After months of being fed on anti-third term rhetoric, there is now an explosion of pro-third term sentiments. Almost everyday, a senior public figure comes up with a reason why President Museveni should have at least one
The same party that drove his dad into exile and ultimately his death.sometimes Congress is so comic.Maybe the Boston strangler supported neck massages.
Juror No. 12: Woman. Pharmacist, originally from Uganda. While she has been in the United States, has seen Stewart's "cooking recipes and stuff" on television, but has not paid close attention
In a message dated 3/6/2004 2:21:23 PM SA Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Mr Yoga Adhola, a Ugandan living in the US and a Fronasa legend, wrote a tantalising and revealing insight on Fronasa and its men. This account completely offset most of the stuff that Museveni had been
Gook,
very funny.who is Derek?sorry about borrowing crates of beer but as you know in those Congress days you had to have a chit from the U.P.C hall chairman to buy beer.About Mr Adhola, yes we who were of age know about him.he may parade himself as Fronasa but his history is far different from
Duel to the Death Inside HIV-Infected CellsBy David Brown Most of the time, life with the AIDS virus appears to be a placid affair.Except for the days immediately after infection, people fighting human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) don't suffer the roller coaster of fevers or aches typical of
Duel to the Death Inside HIV-Infected CellsBy David Brown Most of the time, life with the AIDS virus appears to be a placid affair.Except for the days immediately after infection, people fighting human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) don't suffer the roller coaster of fevers or aches typical of
In a message dated 3/12/2004 3:09:27 PM SA Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
meanwhile the days of your man Yowesweri Kaguta ( the gun man) is Numbered. Like in
Mr Matako,
I thought you made a similar statement ten years ago.What happened? or it is the usual congress language of
Sorry mispelling the screen name for Milton,s man Mr Richard Topacho His name isMatek not Matako.
USAID Denies Aketch InsultsBy Catherine Ntabadde THE director of the US Agency for International Development (USAID), Vicki Moore, has said the state minister for security, Betty Akech, did not insult any US diplomat. Moore on Wednesday said Parliament should drop investigations over the alleged
"They will repair cities long ago destroyed;they will revive them,though they have been empty for many generations."- Isaiah 61:4
Uganda set up a shadow sector of security operations to contend with armed rebel groups and crime waves," Jemera Rone, a Human Rights Watch researcher, said in a statement
HRW also said that Al Qeda terrorists should be released from Guantanamo,that Balkan rapists should not be extradited to
In a message dated 3/29/2004 11:17:24 AM SA Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Is the man lying?
What some of these terrorists and their HRW sympathizers don't tell you is some of their plans that were stopped. How about trying to blow up fuel tanks on Kampala Road during
OBITUARY: Wapa Fought The Good Fight
MISSED BY ALL: James Francis Wamboko Wapakhabulo, a great statesman, succumbed to a stroke on Saturday at his home in Bugolobi
By Felix Osike and Denis Ocwich HE was a humourous man, cool-headed and very sociable. He was calm and balanced,
In a message dated 4/5/2004 4:17:25 PM SA Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
In one of his many postings Gureme discloses M7's other name "Tibuhaburwa", is this the name of his real Rwandes father or want? Please Kabonero help us here!
Gook,
Suffice to say that I will not
We are sure of final victory soonBy Y.K. Museveni April 16, 2004
Greetings to the people of Uganda. I am addressing you, again, about the residual terrorism in the north central part of our country (Acholi-northern Lango areas).I call it residual terrorism because, as you know, at one
DP power struggle resumes in earnest
KAMPALA - The Democratic Party has been thrown into confusion now that President Yoweri Museveni favours a return to multipartyism. No longer shall the incumbents say they cant organise a delegates conference in order to relinquish posts they have held for
Neither Museveni Nor NEC Can Free Parties
THE WRITER: Paul Waibale Senior
Recent newspaper headlines proclaiming that President Museveni has released political parties or urged the Movements National Executive Committee (NEC) to release them are technically misleading. While, in my
WASHINGTON (May 27) - Signing a $15 billion authorization to fight AIDS abroad gives President Bush more leverage to press other wealthy nations to work harder against the killer disease as he prepares for a European summit.
In a ceremony Tuesday at the State Department, Bush was to sign a
Priests trace Konys deadly flow of arms
By Ogen Kevin Aliro
June 17, 2003
President Yoweri Museveni meets Gen. Omar El Bashir of Sudan in Nairobi, in 1999. Can their two countries ever be good neighbours? (PPU photo).
The deadly flow of weapons to the LRA rebels continues from the Sudan,
LRA Kill 3 In Gulu IDP Camp
HAVE MERCY: Bernard Odongo was hacked by rebels in a recent attack on Alito sub-county, Apac district
REBELS of the Lords resistance Army (LRA) have again struck Anaka Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp in Nwoya county, about 35 miles (56km) west of Gulu,
Monday, July 7, 2003; Page A16
PERHAPS WISELY, President Bush's trip to Africa this week begins in Senegal, a country that has made great political and economic progress in recent years, and includes Botswana, the fastest-growing developing country in the world, as well as South Africa and
In a message dated 7/8/2003 3:36:30 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Kabonero,
Another report syas in part:
By mentioning AIDS in almost every speech and carrying the campaign into every village, Mr. Museveni has gone far to destigmatize the disease. That has helped
Tuesday Reflection With Kintu Nyago
Bargain with Bush we must
July 8, 2003
That two sitting American presidents with varying ideological inclinations, Democratic liberal William Jefferson Clinton and right leaning Republican, George Walker Bush, visited Uganda within less than five years,
By Emily Wax
Washington Post Foreign Service
Wednesday, July 9, 2003; Page A18
ENTEBBE, Uganda -- Scrambling around the room wearing a puffy strawberry- and cream-colored dress, 7-year-old Florence Nampiuja plops into a seat, swings her thin legs beneath her and explains how to protect against
Uganda Is Dependable Ally for Bush, U.S.
By MATTHEW ROSENBERG
.c The Associated Press
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) - Compared to the other countries President Bush is visiting in Africa, Uganda is a political and economic lightweight with few democratic credentials.
Bush, however, has other reasons
THE GROUP CALLS itself the Post-Test cluba name that came about because many of them discovered through testing that they had contracted the virus. And though they are neither doctors nor scientists searching for a cure, they are nevertheless a vital element in Ugandas response to HIV/AIDS.
ENTEBBE, Uganda (July 11) - President Bush and his wife Laura praised Uganda's aggressive prevention and treatment programs to combat HIV on Friday, declaring at an AIDS clinic, ''You're leading the way.''
It is one thing to talk about the scourge of AIDS, and quite another to see it up close in
Bush Touts His AIDS Initiative in Uganda
By DARLENE SUPERVILLE
.c The Associated Press
ENTEBBE, Uganda (AP) - President Bush looked into the eyes of AIDS patients in this country that has stemmed its once-spiraling infection rate and declared: ``Life by life, village by village, Uganda is
Its Besigyes decision
THE REFORM Agenda is demanding talks with government on whether it is safe for their leader Col Kizza Besigye to return to Uganda. They are planning to launch a mass campaign to return Besigye on 21 July if government does not cooperate.
This is absurd because government
Sunday, July 27, 2003; Page B06
THE MIDDLE EAST is a place in and about which people seem to do a great deal of moral agonizing. They debate the morality of the Israeli occupation of the West Bank, of the use of suicide bombings to resist it, of America's invasion of Iraq and every facet of
Vibrant media won't save errant cadres
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The stars are related to the sun but never obstruct its path ALTHOUGH they have travelled miles along a misguided path, it is not too late to appeal to them. former NRM and Movement cadres Col. Kiiza Besigye, Maj. Gen. Mugisha Muntu, David
For Immediate Release
8th June 2005
Ugandans Divided on Political Transition
Kampala, Uganda - An Afrobarometer survey conducted in collaboration with the International Republican Institute (IRI) has found that Ugandans are closely divided on the major questions of political transition
UGANDA OPENS TO DEMOCRACYBy Gus ConstantineTHE WASHINGTON TIMES---Uganda, the East African nation hailed during the Clinton administration as an emerging democracy despite its prohibition of political parties, is debating a move toward
UGANDA OPENS TO DEMOCRACYBy Gus ConstantineTHE WASHINGTON TIMES---Uganda, the East African nation hailed during the Clinton administration as an emerging democracy despite its prohibition of political parties, is debating a move toward
UPDF kills LRA rebel acommannder
OKETCH BITEK
Gulu
A SENIOR LRA rebel commander, Col. Anaka Opiro, has been shot dead in combat with UPDF soldiers in Gulu district.Opiro was killed alongside three other rebel fighters yesterday morning in his home village in Patira-Anyomotil, five
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Bush Opposed to Third Term: Response by Hon. Amama Mbabazi
Introduction
In the front page headline, Bush opposed to third term for Museveni, the Sunday Monitor newspaper of July 10, 2005 the US ambassador to Uganda, Mr. Jimmy Kolker, is reported to have made the following points:
Our opposition is not worth its name
THE WRITER: Kabushenga
IN a typical multiparty setting where you have an opposition, it has one major obligation to the country. It has an intellectual duty to provide alternative policies for public consideration. This is because it is not
LAUNCHING OF NRM USA CALIFORNIA LOCAL CHAPTER
JULY 17TH 2005
NRM USA launched its California branch over the weekend on Saturday July 16th. The NRM event was an overwhelming success. By 4.00 p.m.
enthusiastic delegates had began to arrive, each one proudly signing in at the reception desk
Go get the truth from the people
Eva Mwine
Eva Mwine Today, I choose to exercise and enjoy my right to freedom of _expression_ and take my thoughts on the politics of the day beyond the confines of my mind, into the mind of anyone that may happen to read this. The past few
Parties will be no threat to the NRM
THE WRITER: Ofwono Opondo
THE referendum to change from the Movement to multipartysm is over with a success. We should be mad about multipartysm, but it is likely to be reduced to a two-party system, between the NRM, and combined opposition.
FDC behaviour childish
get ready: FDC's Mugisha Muntu addresses a rally in Kisoro
John Musinguzi HAVING followed the rallies of Front for Democratic Change (FDC) during the opening of their district offices in Mbarara, Bushenyi and Ntungamo and the people's reactions, I have
First Kamuntu and now Malinga.Gook are you next?
UPC caucus boss joins Movement
MOVEMENT BRIDE: Museveni (left) welcomes Malinga (in yellow T-shirt) to the
Movement at Budaka sub-county headquarters
By Nathan Etengu
in Pallisa
BUTEBO county MP Dr. Stephen Malinga on Monday crossed from
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Kamuntu,Ogola, Malinga.Hmm?
MP Ogola defects to NRM
DEFECTED: Ogola
By Abraham Odeke
HON. Akisoferi Ogola, MP West Budama South and one of the most influential
members of the Uganda Peoples Congress (UPC) in Tororo on Friday crossed to
the Movement during a public
Gook,
the knock you hear is more MPs abandoning Congress.You are most welcome too.
Im knocking on the Movt door - Malinga
By Alex B. Atuhaire Victor Karamagi
Mar 4, 2005
KAMPALA - The Uganda People's Congress (UPC) leadership yesterday rushed to
Parliament to convince Butebo MP, Dr. Stephen
FDC not the saint it claims to be
By Frank Tumwebaze
Mar 4, 2005
Last week, I featured on the Capital Gang talk show with Hon. Augustine
Ruzindana to debate the unfolding political events in the country. Crucial to
the debate, was the launch of FDC manifesto or platform as Ruzindana
Im now in Movt, says Malinga
Dr. Stephen Malinga
BUTEBO county MP Dr. Stephen Malinga (left) yesterday announced his defection
from the Uganda Peoples Congress (UPC) to the Movement, writes M.
Nalunkuuma.
I am going to the Movement. I will work for the Movement and I will support
the
The Monitor’s debacle has clouded the air around the state and the media
Onapito Ekomoloit To The Point
IN the wake of the ongoing trials and tribulations of The Monitor, the
newspaper where I cut my journalistic teeth in, it’s conceivable that some
journalists now see President Yoweri
It was the legendary Sen. Hiram Johnson who said in 1971. In war truth is the
first casuality.Lost in the hoopla and hysteria sorrounding the Monitor
incident are some basic facts.
Fact: no helicopter was shot down and before the usual suspects jump on this,
it is not because Bantariza said so
Rwakakooko Denies Bribe
I DONT LOVE MONEY: Rwakakooko addressing reporters in Kampala yesterday
By Richard Mutumba
and Felix Osike
THE sh55m paid to former Uganda Revenue Authority Commissioner General Elly
Rwakakooko by a Kampala tycoon, Karim Hirji, was payment for property and not
a
the URL (Internet Address) for the Official
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The following Information is currently available on the EAC Website:
1.Press Releases
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4.Agreements and MOU's
5.Development Strategy
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Museveni has earned General
ACTING BOSS: Mayega
OFWONO OPONDO Opinion - New Vision -Friday, 23rd April 2004ACCORDING to the new guardian angels of the Uganda Peoples Congress (UPC) Dr James Rwanyarare and his sidekick Henry Mayega, Gen (rtd) Yoweri Museveni does not deserve that rank
Ofwono: Pulkol is double-faced By Badru D. MulumbaMay 12, 2004
Pulkol still has two Eso vehicles, is guarded and driven by Eso/UPDF soldiers and still earns a government salary, OFWONO OPONDO says. For him to make an outburst against government qualifies him to be called a rabid dog.
Calm down, Pulkol
IN Luganda we have an apt proverb to deal with the noises emanating from Mr David Pulkol, twice Director General of External Intelligence, difficult though it is to envisage how this came about. The proverb goes, Gwowonya eggere yalikusambya. Whose putrifying foot
Reform Agenda boss has no agenda at all
THE WRITER: Waibale
The only lesson man can ever learn from history is that man never learns from history. there is no shortage of examples to illustrate that statement. Col. Dr. Kiiza Besigye is a a good example. It is only because Dr
Make Up Your Mind
REFORM AGENDA is like a headless chicken running all over the compound. It cant make up its mind. This is not surprising since its head is detached from its body with Kizza Besigye in South Africa and its membership largely in Uganda. Last week Reform Agenda said it was going
Listen to each other on term limits By Frank Tumwebaze May 19, 2004
If you want to be listened to, you must also listen to others, if at all communication is to be effective. This is the message I am putting across to Pafo, whose major crusade is on the Mr Yoweri Museveni Presidency and
19 May 2004White House Doors Have Been Opened to Africa, Says Ugandan EnvoyAmb. Ssempala credits Bush with new attitude in Africa Society lectureBy Jim Fisher-ThompsonWashington File Staff WriterWashington -- An African ambassador noted for her tireless work promoting greater economic and
The masses can speak
MANIPULATION: Oloka
OPINION Ofwono Opondo DR Joe Oloka Onyango of Makerere University Law School and other political critics have invested a lot of energy in the media trying to spread half ideological, political and even legal truths about the current
Multipartists now thoroughly confused
THE WRITER: Waibale
THE malignant confusion which charactrises the multipartist camp, mainly constituted of de facto political groups, is glaringly manifested by inconsistencies. One of the most obvious cases is the recent birth of a new
UGANDA OPTIMISTIC FOR PEACE, CITES REBEL FLIGHT
By Tom Maliti
ASSOCIATED PRESS
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GULU, Uganda
Through the dense brush of Uganda's northern savanna, Patrick made a desperate
flight for freedom. Kidnapped five years ago at age 13 by
MATEK writes,
As a political observer, I believe ,very funny.Thats like saying Ssebagala is a bank
examiner
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Wrangles shake FDC
NOT TRUE: Kamya
By Sheila Kulubya
ALL is not well in the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC). Three months after
its inception, FDC is reportedly facing a major split within its ranks, which
could break up the party.
Sources say whenever Col. Dr. Kizza Besigyes name
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Museveni did not scheme for Kerry
By Onapito-Ekomoloit
Nov 10, 2004
Normally even when you disagree with the opinion of Gulu Municipality MP
Norbert Mao, he comes across as the kind of devil you give his due.
However, in the article US Elections: How Museveni Ended Up with His Foot In
His
Museveni did not scheme for Kerry
By Onapito-Ekomoloit
Nov 10, 2004
Normally even when you disagree with the opinion of Gulu Municipality MP
Norbert Mao, he comes across as the kind of devil you give his due.
However, in the article US Elections: How Museveni Ended Up with His Foot In
His
NRM critics must prove their worth
THE WRITER: Ofwono Opondo
THOMAS Jefferson once said, The best thing to do with those in self delusion
is to encourage them to hire a hall, and chat with fellow citizens, because
nothing chills lies like exposure to air.
This is what Ugandans will face
Muntu's role is to work on the syches of those who might think of fighting M7
and dissuade them. Why is Muntu allowed to hold these meetings when nobody
else is?
Maybe he knows something that armchair analysts dont.He does not want to end up
defeated on the battle field like the the
Let us be honest for the sake of our beloved nation. I can categorically state
and be quoted that Milton Obote has never in anyway been a part of the
so-called FOBA. The truth of the matter is FOBA was a creation of the NRM in
order to persecute UPC leaders in various parts of Uganda and
Mary Karooro Okurut
Karooro Okurut
Transition of any kind is not easy. Take the transition from childhood to
adulthood, when a cocktail of emotions and changes take place. A boys voice
all of a sudden breaks into a boom. Many a boy gets confused as he talks and
sounds like a cross between
By Jim Fisher-Thompson
Washington File Staff Writer
Washington -- Uganda may be a small country but its weight in Washington
policy circles has enough heft to convince lawmakers on Capitol Hill to
establish a new Congressional Caucus on Uganda -- only the third such caucus
in the history of
Writing is on the wall for Kisanja opponents
FORMIDABLE: President Museveni who has won two landslides
Onapito Ekomoloit - THE INSIDE PERSPECTIVE
PRESIDENTIAL elections in other African countries during 2004 should be an
eye-opener for those opposing ekisanja (the removal of presidential
EU chief raps term limits
POPULAR MANDATE: Michel (right) tours camps in Gulu
By Cyprian Musoke IT does not matter how long a president stays in power as long as he still has the popular mandate, a European Union commissioner (EU) has said. The EU commissioner for development and
Published on: Sunday, 2nd January, 2005
A letter to MP John Kazoora
THE WRITER: Kabushenga
Dear John, IT was good to exchange greetings at a wedding
recently. I hope you recall asking me in
Mary Karooro Okurut KEEN readers of this column
know that every first Sunday of the year I make predictions of what
we should expect to see on the political, social and economic scene
in the next
Critics exaggerate Museveni, Kategaya friendship By Ofwono-Opondo
Jan 9 - 15,
2005
Professional political biographers Charles Onyango-Obbo,
F.D.R. Gureme, and Andrew Mwenda have consistently written that
ONAPITO EKOMOLOIT to the point
THE WRITER: Onapito
Museveni Too Loves Uganda
MANY, if not all Ugandans, imagine they mean well for our dear motherland.
It is, therefore, amazing that some people want to rig President Yoweri Museveni out of this list.
Never mind that he is,
IN THE TRAVEL CHANNEL SPECIAL, UGANDA: THE PRESIDENTIAL TOUR, JOURNALIST FORREST SAWYER TAKES A ONCE-IN-A LIFETIME TOUR OF THAT COUNTRY'S RICH LEGACY OF HISTORY, NATURAL BEAUTY, RARE ANIMALS AND THRILLING ADVENTURE,
LED BY UGANDAN PRESIDENT MUSEVENI HIMSELF
When former Ugandan president Idi
This is to remind everyone that the discovery channel will screen "Uganda The Presidential Tour" on Discovery travel channel tomorrow Tuesday DEC 2nd at 9.00pm.EST.The time for the screening in Europe will be announced later.
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Abayombo,
Thank you for the warning. I'll make sure I dont see it. What 'presidential tour'
Last time I checked one was had a choice of what to see on television.
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