The Daily Monitor (23, January) reported that Uganda Farmers’ Party presidential candidate, Maj Gen (rtd) Benon Biraaro defended the National Resistance Army (NRA), now UPDF, against allegations of committing atrocities in Acholi during the insurgency in northern Uganda. When asked whether he would investigate the massacre claims against the UPDF if elected president, Maj Gen. […]

Members of The Democratic Alliance (TDA-U) in Acholi sub region have finally elected committees that will lead the campaign for independent presidential candidate Amama Mbabazi. The committee is made up of mobilization, security, youth, special interest groups, veterans and logistics. Dr Freddie Oyat who was elected Chairperson of the committee on Wednesday in Gulu town […]

Former United Nations diplomat and president of the Uganda Peoples Congress (UPC) has criticized Moreno Ocampo, the former International Criminal Court prosecutor for failure to prosecute elements in the Uganda military. Otunnu, a former diplomat in charge of children in armed conflict said in address to journalists in Gulu on Wednesday that said it was […]

Nwoya district chairman Patrick Okello Oryema has refuted rumours that he has defected to the ruling NRM party. Speaking on Tuesday during the 30th NRM Anniversary celebration in Koch Goma Sub County, Oryema said ideological differences should not make leaders from the opposition  not shun working in partnership with government because its the local communities that […]

A defence lawyer for Dominic Ongwen, the former Lords Resistance Army commander  on Tuesday argued before the International Criminal Court that   Ongwen feared to escape from the rebels because he believed Joseph Kony, the rebel leader would know beforehand about the planned escape and kill him. Ongwen is facing 70 counts of war crimes and […]

Awach Health Centre IV which has been without a functioning latrine since October 2015 has now got one. Awach health centre is located in Awach Sub County in Gulu district. The health facility has been operating without a functioning latrine after what they had got used up last year. But patients at the health facility […]

A suspect in a theft case has accused a senior police officer for allegedly asking for a bribe in order to ‘’work on her case file.’’ Kevin Auma, alleges that detective Assistant Inspector of Police (AIP) Fred Oyat Okoya demanded for 300,000 shillings from her after she was arrested and charged with theft. In her […]

For more than a decade now, residents of Lukodi Village in Bungatira Sub-county  in Gulu district where 56 people were massacred by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) rebels in May 2004 have yearned for justice. The massacre was allegedly carried out under the command Dominic Ongwen. Mr Ongwen surrendered to African Union forces (some accounts […]

Letter of complaint to NRM SG Amuru Six NRM members of the NRM including one executive in Amuru district have petitioned their party headquarter for their Chair William Wilson Nokrach to be removed from office. The NRM members say Nokrach defied the party position when he chose to contest as an independent for Northern Uganda […]

When  witty Democratic Party president Norbert Mao equated former Vice President Prof Gilbert Bukenya to a plant and an organism without a backbone, Bukenya quipped in a TV clip I watched: ‘‘Does Mao live a better life than me?’’ Mao’s description of Bukenya was sparked by the latter’s flip-flopping from the opposition Democratic Alliance (TDA) […]