Adungu

By Richard Ekotu
Kampala Uganda

A Ugandan man suspected to have links with the Al-Shabaab terrorist group  arrested in Kenya.

Fred Opolot, executive director of the Media Center, told a news conference in Kampala that Ali Issa Senkumba was arrested a week before the attack that rocked the city on Sunday 11 July 2010.
He did not say whether Senkumba had anything to do with the bombings in which more than 70 Ugandans were killed.

Opolot did not provide any information on the background of Ali Issa Senkumba.
He also withheld details on the circumstances that led to the man’s arrest.

Police spokesperson Judith Nabakooba told the journalists that Senkumba was handed over to Ugandan security.

Mean while Somalis leaving in Uganda are calling for government protection fearing that they can be a target of attack by Ugandans.

The appeal follows Sunday’s bombs that have been linked to the Somali’s based Al-Shabaab Rebels

Mohammed Hassan the spokesperson of the Somali’s community in Uganda says they are willing to help in any investigations in case it is established that indeed the Bombs were set by the Somali’s.

Al shabab group in Somalia later claimed responsibility, mean while President Yoweri Museveni vowed to deal with terrorists who target innocent people in the country.

Scene of the Bomb Blast in Kampala

By OMARA ELEM

UPC president Dr Olara Otunu who is also the party flag bearer in the coming 2011 election, has accused President Youweri Kaguta Museveni of facilitating the LRA. [Read more →]

By Richard Ekotu In Netherlands

Dutch Airlines KLM and Germany’s Lufthansa are conducting test flights to try and identify safe flights paths.

This follows four days of flights disruption due to a volcanic ash cloud. [Read more →]

Adungu articles about Norbert Mao lead to many comments. Most of them by Mao-supporters. Headline is the fact that Norbert Mao should be new leader of Uganda. Read Michael Okumu’s comment below and the others in the left column under ‘recent comments’.

Micheal Okumu: President Mao is the only one who can defeat Museveni and his NRM. The fellow have messed up Uganda and we need young men like Mao to correct the mess. I do think that Mao’s candidature will end the common talks of Museveni about the Obotes, Amin and the whole 1960 politics which we do not understand as the young generation. [Read more →]

AMURU – Land disputes are increasing in Koch Goma sub-county because of bush burning which destroys land boundaries. The chairman of Koch Goma, John Bosco Okullu, said some residents use the dry season to have access to unused land with the intention of owning and later selling it.

GULU district chairman Norbert Mao was elected president of the Democratic Party (DP) yesterday morning with 708 votes, more than
double his rival’s.
“Today is the turning point. No more running around in circles because we have chosen a direction for the party,” Mao said in his acceptance speech.

http://www.newvision.co.ug/D/8/12/710757

by James Omara in Lira

Members of Lira district local council have planned to build a modern stadium and airport using Peace Recovery and Development Funds (PRDP) in the next financial year. [Read more →]

 By Stephen Candia and Gloria Laker

NEBBI-The rural Small and medium sized entrepreneurs in the West Nile district of Nebbi are  resorting to keeping their money in metallic boxes of the village savings scheme other than with big financial institutions [Read more →]

LRA-rebels are splitting up in several smaller groups. According to UN-Peacekeeping Forces (Monuc) the  troups from Uganda, Congo and South Sudan have to divide their power as a result of the LRA strategy. It is not clear where Kony and the other LRA leaders are.

The armies of Uganda, South Sudan and the DRC last November launched a joint offensive code-named ‘Operation Lightning Thunder’, to flush out the rebels.

Sources: Congoforum, New Vision