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Majority of Ugandans want President Yoweri Museveni and his political rival, FDC leader Col. Kizza Besigye to hold talks on election reforms in order to move the country forward. This emerged from the results of a public opinion poll carried out between March and last month (April), exactly one year after the 2011 presidential elections. The study was done by
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Uganda's top prosecutor said Tuesday that any case against a captured Lord's Resistance Army commander would proceed on merit, amid concern he could be offered amnesty for information on LRA leader Joseph Kony. In a rare statement sent to journalists, Chief of Public Prosecutions Richard Buteera said that Ceasar Acellam "will be investigated and the prosecution of the case will
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After abolishing the Constituency Development Fund (CDF), allegedly because it was too little to have an impact, Parliament has transferred the money to enhance the MPs' salaries, The Observer has learnt. The Shs 2.9bn originally budgeted for CDF will enhance the legislators' daily sitting allowances, sources told us. Officials in the Parliamentary Commission have vehemently denied the report, with some
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The capture of one of the Lord Resistance Army's top commanders is a major blow for the rebel group and will provide a boost for those hunting its leader Joseph Kony, analysts say. Caesar Acellam, the most senior LRA leader ever captured, surrendered after a brief clash with Ugandan soldiers in the Central African Republic who had spent around three
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Murders on the rise as gangs terrorise Kampala, Kiira, Mukono Annet Kayondo died in the most brutal way a young woman could die. It is believed she was on her way to work at 6am on April 3 when her attacker or attackers pounced on her in Kigandazi Zone in Bweyogerere, a busy suburb of Kampala city. Kayondo was attacked
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Many of the children suffering from the nodding disease syndrome have developed severe mental retardation and cannot go back to school to continue with education, a clinical officer in charge of Palabek-Kal Health Centre III, Dorothy Akwero, has said. Akwero said most of the 61 patients, who were diagnosed with nodding disease at Palabek-Kal treatment centre, have failed to report
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Ugandan troops have captured a senior member of the Lord's Resistance Army in a milestone arrest that could signal they are closing in on notorious rebel leader Joseph Kony. Caesar Acellam, considered the LRA's fourth-highest ranking member, was arrested by Ugandan forces in Central African Republic and was flown Sunday to the South Sudanese headquarters of the regional armies hunting
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Ugandan forces captured a senior commander of Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army after a brief fight with rebels near the Congo-Central African Republic border, an army official said, in what an analyst said was an "intelligence coup" for forces hunting for Kony. Lt. Col. Abdul Rugumayo, intelligence chief for Uganda's military operation against the LRA, said Sunday that Caesar Acellam
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The Hague - Lord's Resistance Army leader Joseph Kony will be captured or killed this year, the International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor said on Thursday. Luis Moreno-Ocampo added that the "Kony 2012" video, produced by the Invisible Children advocacy group and viewed about 100 million times online, forever changed a conflict that has raged since the late 1980s in relative
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Kampala - Uganda has threatened to kick out Oxfam after the British charity accused the government of complicity in violent land grabs for commercial gains, according to the interior ministry. The ministry has told Oxfam and the Uganda Land Alliance, they will lose their operating licenses if they do not retract and apologise for accusations that more than 20 000
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A Sudanese parliamentary delegation is in Uganda to try to defuse tension between the two countries. A source at the Sudanese Embassy said that the delegation includes the chairperson of the parliamentary committee on foreign affairs Ahmad Abdulrahman Muhammad and a member of the committee Mr. Mahdi Ibrahim Muhammad. It has not been established whether the delegation's visit was sanctioned
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The NRM Chairperson, Yoweri Museveni on Tuesday blocked the National Executive Committee from discussing the issue of restoring the presidential term limits. A NEC member, Capt. Francis Babu, reportedly attempted to bring up the matter for discussion although it wasn't on the agenda earlier agreed on at the beginning of the meeting. After the presentations by President Yoweri Museveni and
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The party of Uganda's long-time president says it strongly opposes a bid to restore presidential term limits to the constitution. Critics and opposition politicians said on Wednesday the ruling party's opposition to the bill is a sign President Yoweri Museveni is interested in ruling for life. The bill would limit him to seeking two more terms after his term expires
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A former abductee of a ruthless African guerilla group is telling Congress about his capture, escape and how his life has been transformed. Jacob Acaye was seized by the Lord's Resistance Army when he was 12 from his village in northern Uganda. He managed to escape in the middle of the night and eventually returned to his village. Today, Acaye,
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An Internet campaign that's gone viral aims to capture notorious rebel leader Joseph Kony, but Ugandan foot soldiers who have spent years searching for the man are starting to ask a question their top commanders prefer to ignore: Is it possible he is dead? Ugandan army officials say the Lord's Resistance Army leader is alive and hiding somewhere within the
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Sweat dripping from his unkempt beard, second lieutenant Kasim Lukumo halted briefly to point at the thick tangle of the central African jungle. "See how difficult it can be to find someone here if they want to hide from you," Lukumo told AFP, as he adjusted the straps of his 30-kilo pack and the automatic rifle slung across his chest.
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Washington - Wanted Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony's days as a free man are "numbered," a US lawmaker said on Wednesday, adding that the "noose is tightening" on the leader of the brutal Lord's Resistance Army (LRA). Kony is accused by the International Criminal Court of the rape, mutilation and murder of civilians, as well as forcibly recruiting child soldiers for
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Kampala — The National Drug Authority in Uganda has in recent years been overwhelmed by the amount of counterfeit drugs in the market that have endangered lives. According to Ms. Kate Kikule, the Head of Drug Inspectorate Services at NDA, the fake drugs mainly from China and India are becoming difficult to monitor because of technological advancement. "Counterfeits are endangering
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Kampala - Uganda's top anti-graft official says he plans to take a corruption case against three influential government ministers to the Supreme Court after a lower court ruled that he lacked the ability to try the suspects. The case, once seen as a test of the government's resolve to fight official corruption, appeared to collapse last week after the Constitutional
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The authors of a book critical of Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni have been arrested. Student activist Doreen Nyanjura has been charged with participating in unlawful society and inciting violence and remanded until 24 April. Her co-author Ibrahim Bagaya has been released but ordered to report to police on 16 April. Bagaya and Nyanjura were arrested Wednesday as they attempted to
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Uganda exported a below-target 187,595 60-kg bags of coffee in March compared with 223,099 bags a year earlier as the harvest drew to an end, a source at the state-run Uganda Coffee Development Authority (UCDA) said on Thursday. "We had anticipated this decline. The main reason is that the major harvest in east and central regions is tailing off so
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Kampala - Ugandan officials say up to 7 000 Congolese refugees have fled to Uganda to escape renewed violence after last year's contentious presidential election in Congo. Stephen Mallinga, Uganda's minister for refugees and disasters, said late on Tuesday that the rising number of refugees could upset Ugandan residents and lead to clashes over resources. Hundreds of Congolese nationals are
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A Ugandan court on Wednesday charged the country's main opposition leader Kizza Besigye with an offence linked to the killing of a police officer during a rally last week. Besigye and three other opposition activists were charged with "forming an unlawful society with the purpose of inciting members of the public against the police which led to the death" of
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Uganda has charged 53 people with treason over an alleged rebel plot to overthrow the government, police said on Saturday. Police spokesman Asuman Mugenyi said the suspects were arrested in different locations in the country last month and were charged Friday at a Kampala court. "They were coming up with plans to try and overthrow the government. ... They held
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The public meltdown of the man behind the viral "Kony 2012" video has thrown his campaign into turmoil even as the film succeeded in turning the world's attention to capturing an elusive and brutal Ugandan warlord. Attempts by regional forces and foreign troops to corner the fugitive warlord Joseph Kony have so far failed. But on Friday, the African Union
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