OPINION | Ofwono Opondo | Today marks thirty-four years since the resilient and glorious National Resistance Movement/Army (NRM/A) under the leadership of Yoweri Kaguta Museveni captured Kampala. The battle for Kampala, marked the defeat and retreat of UPC and UNLA remnants, which also ended the reign of terror, uncertainty, and …
Read More »Court to decide Kitatta’s fate on Monday
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The General Court Martial ill deliver its ruling on Monday next week whether Abdullah Kitatta, the jailed patron of Boda boda 2010 and his co-accused have a case to answer. The group is battling charges of unlawful possession of firearms. The other suspects are Matia …
Read More »Fate of IPOD Summit to be determined on Friday
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Secretary Generals of all political parties with representation in Parliament will meet this Friday, to determine the fate of next week’s Inter party Organisation for Dialogue (IPOD) summit. The summit, composed of presidents of political parties with representation in parliament is supposed to take place …
Read More »THIS WEEK: Lose power, lose doctorate: Former first lady Mugabe’s fate
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Zimbabwe’s anti-corruption commission says it is probing the circumstances surrounding the controversial awarding of a doctorate to former first lady Grace Mugabe. Mugabe, whose husband resigned in November under pressure from the military and ruling party, received a doctorate from the University of Zimbabwe …
Read More »Sematimba’s fate to be decided on Monday
Kampala, Uganda | GODFREY SSALI | The Court of Appeal will on Monday 18, September deliver the judgment in the election appeal filed by embattled Peter Ssematimba against rival Stephen Sekigozi. Sematimba is challenging a Kampala High Court decision that nullified his election as Member of Parliament (MP) of Busiro South …
Read More »Museveni and the fate of revolutionaries
By Andrew M. Mwenda History shows it was inevitable Mbabazi would fall on the sword of `sole’ candidate-culture In 1965, then opposition MPs introduced a motion on the floor of the National Assembly to repeal the Deportation Ordinance. This was a draconian colonial law that allowed the state to deport, …
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