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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

By James Omara in Lira

THE ordinary people, who, after years in the Internally Displaced People’s (IDP) camps have decided to go back to their homes, may not know what the Peace Recovery Development Programme (PRDP) is, but the one thing they know is that the government has pledged to restore social harmony and to support them to rebuild their lives. [Read more →]

A senior commander the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) has been killed during the on-going joint military operation to wipe out the rebel group holed up in northeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Lt. Col Okello Yape, whose role in the LRA is not yet clear, was killed in southwest of Ri-Kwangba, a remote border area in southern Sudan, according to a statement of the Uganda People’s Defense Force (UPDF).

Source: Monuc

By James Omara

President Yuweri Kakuta Museveni promises the people of northern Uganda peace as long as he is in power.  Museveni was recently meeting head teachers in Lira district at Ngetta DFI to forge way forward on the poor education standard that has rocked the country. He also promised to raise salaries of  secondary school teachers.

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By James Omara in Lira

The Uganda Peoples Congress party has accused the government for using money meant for Peace Recovery and Development Program in fighting Lords resistance army in DR Congo instead of developing Northern Uganda.

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