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UPC PRESIDENT OTUNU ACCUSES PRESIDENT MUSEVENI

April 19th, 2010 · 1 Comment

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.

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Mao supporters comment on Adungu posts

March 1st, 2010 · No Comments

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 [...]

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Mao elected president DP

February 22nd, 2010 · No Comments

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

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Kony sends wives to Museveni

February 15th, 2009 · No Comments

The latest report from the jungle of Garamba in the Democratic Republic of Congo is that two highly trusted Kony’s wives  have a special message for President Yoweri Museveni, who is also the commander in chief of the UPDF. Read more at Langoweb

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Tags: Kony · New War · News from Northern Uganda · Peace Talks

Why the UDPF failed to kill Kony

February 10th, 2009 · No Comments

By James Omara In LiraDetails are emerging explaining why the UPDF and its regional allies have failed to capture or kill Lords Resistance Army (LRA) rebel Chief Joseph Kony. Some senior government- and military officials are intimating that there were loopholes in the war plan.

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30 radio and TV stations to loose licences

February 2nd, 2009 · No Comments

Uganda’s Broadcasting Council says it will withdraw licences from over 30 radio and TV stations for failure to comply with the Electronic Media Act. Secretary to the council Kagole Kivumbi said that some individuals have been getting licences and failing to start business within a year as stipulated in the law.
Media houses affected include those operating in [...]

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Citizens doubt military operation against Kony

January 10th, 2009 · 2 Comments

by James OmaraThe latest war in Garamba between the LRA in and the joint armies of Uganda, Sudan and Congo is intended to force rebel leader Joseph Kony back to the negotiating table. But the Northern Ugandan communities that have been affected have different views on the military operation.

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Tags: Background · Kony · New War · News from Northern Uganda · Peace Talks

Land mine survivors face discrimination

November 16th, 2008 · No Comments

By Gloria Laker Aciro
GULU- Following the 20-year war between the Lords Resistance Army and the government of Uganda, thousands of people have either been killed or injured by explosives like land mines, hand grenades and mortars. In Gulu, women collecting firewood and people farming in gardens have ended up being hurt by the land mines [...]

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Tags: Going Back · News from Northern Uganda

Museveni: ‘Kony is a mad man’

November 10th, 2008 · No Comments

By Omara James
LIRA – President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has said the UPDF are on high alert with full capacity to crash the Lords Resistance Army (LRA) rebels if they attempt to return to Uganda with a motive of disrupting and terrorizing Northern Uganda again.

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Lira Municipality rejects psychiatry department

October 17th, 2008 · No Comments

 By Omara Elem
LIRA- Authorities in Lira municipality have rejected the plan to construct a psychiatry department in Lira Referral Hospital and vowed never to give land for such developments. The mayor of Lira Municipal Council, Peter Guduzu Owiny, while addressing a section of the hospital authorities in the council hall,  said the development did not [...]

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Tags: Land Disputes · News from Northern Uganda