We told Besigye that when you want to demonstrate, do it with police permission, but not going to market places and other areas..I told them that climbing shrubs can’t defeat a panga [machete].President Museveni bragging about his capacity to arrest the opposition leaders who are leading the Walk to Work campaign to protest the escalating commodity prices in the country. (Daily Monitor, April 21, 2011)
They might even inject him with poison. If they did not have sinister plans, they would have taken him to Luzira Prison, not Nakasongola 60 miles from where he was arrested. This is how his younger brother [Joseph Musasizi] was killed, FDC vice president for eastern Region Salaam Musumba referring to the detention of FDC president Kizze Besigye in Nakasongola Prison last week.
In football, everything can happen in the game right up to the final whistle. You can win the title in the last minute and you can lose the title in the last minute. If we thought that one month ago we’d have a little chance to come back to fight for the title, I think that everyone could have said we were crazy. Chelsea coach Carlo Ancelotti after his side beat Birmingham City in the Premiership on April 20. The win lifted Chelsea above Arsenal to second place, which had looked a remote dream a month ago
We will be a ball of fire. We will make it 10 times as bad as Iraq, Libyan spokesman Moussa Ibrahim referring to what the government will do if foreign troops enter Misrata to support the rebels. He said the government will “unleash hell”
When food and fuel prices are soaring; when our young ones remain unemployed; and when our mothers, wives and sisters die during child birth, like the disciples we wonder what happened to the solutions we had so much hope and faith in to make our world a better place, Archbishop Henry Luke Orombi referring to the government’s inaction to rising commodity prices and cost of living as Christians prepared to start the Easter weekend on Good Friday (Saturday Monitor, April 23, 2011).
It has become clear that the size of the corruption that’s being uncovered every day exceeds by far anyone’s imagination, Egyptian Judge Mohammed Hassan Omar said as he ordered that the names of ousted President Hosni Mubarak and his wife Suzanne be removed from all public places.
No country in the world is facing what Ugandans are facing. There is no country where the prices of commodities have doubled between January and February. UPC president Olara Otunnu talking about the current soaring commodity prices in the country which have led to public protests
Numbers
832
Opposition defectors in Busoga who crossed to the ruling NRM during the last election campaign and now want to return to their parties, accusing the NRM of failing to fulfill its promises to them.
500
People believed to have died after Nigerian presidential elections earlier in April when rioting broke out after it emerged that Goodluck Jonathan, a southern Christian, had defeated a Muslim candidate from the mostly Islamic north. The violence happened mostly in the northern state of Kaduna.
37
Prison warders who have left Uganda Prisons Service to get better paying jobs in war-torn Afghanistan and Iraq in the last five months.
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