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By Andrew M. Mwenda As the elections for next year get closer, the contours of its alignments are becoming apparent. The election of Norbert Mao to lead DP and Olara Otunnu to lead UPC ‘ Uganda’s founding political parties ‘ adds an important dimension to the leadership of NRM by …

By Jocelyn Edwards Buliisa residents surrounding Tullow Oils Kasamene oil field became alarmed recently when they saw representatives of the company surveying and marking off land that they see as theirs.  Residents say pegs and poles started appearing on the communal land about a month ago despite their objections to …

By Bob Kasango Fundamentalist attacks on priestly celibacy come in a number of different forms – not all compatible with one another. There is almost no other subject about which so many different confusions exist. The first and most basic confusion is thinking of priestly celibacy as a dogma or …

By Dicta Asiimwe Is it time for  priests to marry? In the last two weeks, the Roman Catholic Church has been in the news over its pedophilia scandals. Most of the scandals have been from Europe, especially in Ireland and Germany, the home country of Pope Benedict XVI, who is …

By Bob Kasango The troubling history of the Catholic Church and abuse of children has Pope Benedict embroiled in yet another pedophile scandal. This time it started with Pope Benedict himself when as Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger and his handling of the case of a priest accused of pedophilia. Cardinal Joseph …

By Bob Kasango Eugene Terreblanche, the 69-year-old White South African supremacist, was attacked on Saturday evening at his home on his farm near the town of Ventersdorp, North West province in South Africa. South Africa’s history is littered with killings and so the killing of a White farmer far away …

By P. Matsiko wa Mucoori & Mubatsi Asinja Habati Aircraft flying life had expired UPDF told CAA to clear flight On March 9 last year, an Ilyushin IL-76 Russian made aircraft, operated by the Johannesburg-based Aerolift Company Ltd, crashed in Lake Victoria killing 11 people on board. The Ministry of …

By Andrew M. Mwenda Mugisha Muntu’s challenge to Kizza Besigye for the presidential candidature of FDC reveals the major dilemma facing the opposition in Uganda. Besigye has twice demonstrated extraordinary courage by challenging President Yoweri Museveni. Yet the factors that made him galvanise Ugandans in support of his candidature also …

By Isaac Mufumba He is perched on a heap of second hand clothes in a stall in Jinja central market. He turns his head to have a clearer view of us. The face and arms bear scars. His left eye, he says, no longer functions. This is Godfrey Dhikusooka, the …

By Rukiya Makuma On March 24, the Minister of State for Gender and Cultural Affairs Rukia Isanga Nakadama presided over the launch of a campaign by We Can partners at Imperial Royal Hotel in Kampala. The five-year campaign aims at changing peoples attitudes and practices that perpetuate violence against women. …