Wednesday, 18 February 2009 15:45
 He was such a huge man,†was the first reaction from the cultural leaders after spotting a skull at one of the burial sites. “He must have been an LRA fighter,†said another Acholi elder on the team. The leaders had trekked through the shru [ … ]
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Thursday, 15 January 2009 10:06
  On November 3, 2008, Arthur Asiimwe Kirimani 25 was on his way to Baghdad Airport to board a plane that would return him to Uganda after a 10-month service with a private American security firm – EODT. The firm that is stationed at Forward Operating Base in northern Iraq near Tikrit provi [ … ]
Wednesday, 07 January 2009 21:56
By John Njoroge
 Stephen Olupot had been drinking local brew and was heading home at about 10 pm in Abarilela Sub-County, Soroti district. On the same night, December 18, 2002, security personnel led by the Gombolola Internal Security Officer (GISO) were searching the Sub-County for a robber popularly knows as Okw [ … ]
Thursday, 25 December 2008 15:10
By Bob Roberts Katende
 Road accidents continued to plague the travelling public throughout the year and so did the blame games as to who is responsible for this carnage. In the region, Uganda ranks highest with road fatalities at 160 deaths per 1000 vehicles per year. Neighbouring Kenya’s road deaths stand at 51 pe [ … ]
Thursday, 25 December 2008 14:12
By Steven Kibuuka
 July 18, 2008 was the day when Buganda Kingdom tested the wrath of government as its minister of information and cabinet affairs Charles Peter Mayiga, his deputy Medard Lubega, and Ms Betty Nambooze, who heads the kingdom’s committee set up to campaign against proposed changes to the [ … ]
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Thursday, 25 December 2008 14:04
By John Njoroge
 A wave of mysterious murders took Uganda by surprise at the beginning of this year. It began in the town of Mukono, 20km east of Kampala. Apparently, iron bars were being used by criminal groups in to commit murder in what looked like a return of the 1980s where Jinja residents were terrorized [ … ]
Thursday, 18 December 2008 22:27
By Ryan Schuette
 On a normal day, Alexy Agala goes to the library, finds a book on land law and studies land reform. It helps the inmate with his day in court – his clan charged him on a matter related to his family’s land – and passes the time while he waits at Kampala Remand Home. “I am very lucky,†[ … ]
Thursday, 18 December 2008 21:31
By John Njoroge
 Alfred Ojera, a resident of Layibi Central B Ward, Pece division, Gulu municipality, had been planning an outing for a long time. On the afternoon of July 5, 2003, Basil Ojera, his 77 year-old grandfather, gave him Shs 5,000 for him to use as he pleased. Alfred was ecstatic. He hadn’t ha [ … ]
Wednesday, 17 December 2008 20:48
By John Njoroge
 Â In January 2001, Ronald Twinomugisha, a resident of Kasara village, Kagongo Parish in Ibanda district was sentenced by a Mbarara Court to 12 months in prison for battering his wife. He protested his arrest and sentencing. According to him, it was his right to beat his wife when she went ast [ … ]
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