Uganda Peoples Congress (UPC) National Deputy Mobilizer Oola Dan Odiya was on Thursday morning re- arrested by armed men from inside the Gulu court premises shortly after the Director of Public Prosecution ceased proceedings against him and two of his co-accused. Mr Odiya and the two others—Otto Kenneth and Ojok Sam Oboma were charged with […]

In Adam Hochschild’s ‘‘King Leopold’s Ghost,’’ there is a chapter titled ‘‘Journalists won’t give you receipts.’’ King Leopold II was the shrewd, deceptive and megalomaniac King of Belgium whose barbaric misrule of the Congo left, according to estimates, 10 million Congolese dead and countless more limbless. A pretentious Leopold had in the 18th century scramble […]

Kenneth Akena Watmon was buried in Kitgum on Wednesday last week. The burial marked his final journey on earth at the young age of 33. The man who allegedly pulled the trigger that let out a bullet(s) which cut Akena’s life is a Mathew Kanyamunyu, a businessman. The cause of the shooting was reportedly a […]

Unthinkable as it seemed at the beginning of the American presidential campaigns, Donald John Trump is the president- elect of the powerful United States of America. Only days before voting, President Obama derided Trump as a man who could not be trusted with his own Twitter account. At the time media reports had emerged that […]

The swashbuckling village boy, unfazed by the glamour and glitz of the city is on rampage. Sword in hand, the villager’s crass mannerisms is leaving polished elites from Budo and Gayaza cringed. ‘‘Hey, what do you think you are doing? That is not how to hold a wine glass,’’ horrified Budo and Gayaza kids yell […]

The police is in the news for all the wrong reasons. General Kale Kayihura, its head, is an unpopular man by a difficult-to- measure but certainly large section of Uganda’s chattering class. It is generally a good sign for Uganda’s future that the police boss and his methods is loathed by the talking class. First, […]

The people of Rukungiri, so we are told, are unhappy about the dropping from cabinet of their son, Maj Gen Jim Muhwezi. The people of Bunyoro, we are also told, are sulking because their son, octogenarian Henry Muganwa Kajura, a permanent fixture in cabinet for donkey’s years is no more. “I only delivered a message […]

  Sunday night we planned to watch the Germany- Ukraine football game with my German neighbour and friend. ‘‘I would like to watch the German team sing the Germany national anthem,’’ she had told me earlier in the day. ‘‘Patriotic German,’’ I joked. Then we had a chat about what we needed later in the […]

A month or so ago, former Forum for Democratic Change presidential candidate, Dr Kiiza Besigye celebrated his 60th birthday. Excluding his time in the Luwero jungles, a decade and a half of those years (and still counting) have been spent in the trenches and on the receiving end of brutal blows from a State run […]

  Simon Toolit Akecha, the former Member of Parliament for Omoro County (2006-2011) in Gulu district and a candidate in the February parliamentary elections has vanished. Mr Toolit, according to his son, who was with him in the same house, was abducted by armed men at around 3 am on Wednesday morning from his home […]