Daily Monitor
Sunday May 16 2021
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It was revealed recently how Uganda’s public debt has surged to Shs65.82 trillion, forcing government officials to say they are attempting to sweet talk Uganda’s creditors, who include Western institutions such as World Bank and International Monetary Fund. But when this week he was swearing in for another term, President Museveni attacked the West that has largely bankrolled his government. Derrick Kiyonga & Joel Mukisa look at how this complicated relationship started and how it will pan out.
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Shortly after President Museveni took what now looks to be a ritual of swearing-in at Kololo Independence Grounds – to lead Uganda for at least another five years – his military moved to flex muscle, sending a message to anonymous adversaries.
Daily Monitor
Wednesday May 12 2021
A NUP supporter, who was arrested during the campaigns, is taken to Kitalya prison last year. PHOTO/ ABUBAKER LUBOWA
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The demand is contained in his congratulatory message to Mr Museveni ahead of his swearing-in today for his sixth elective term.
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The president of the European Council, Mr Charles Michel, has asked President Museveni to account for the poll violence victims.
The demand is contained in his congratulatory message to Mr Museveni ahead of his swearing-in today for his sixth elective term.
“I also encourage continued efforts in order to ensure accountability for the violence that regrettably affected the electoral campaign period, and transparency regarding recent cases of abductions,” reads a May 4 letter.
THE HAGUE, NETHERLANDS The International Criminal Court sentenced a Ugandan former child soldier who turned into a brutal rebel commander to 25 years imprisonment Thursday, with judges saying that his own abduction as a schoolboy and history as a child soldier prevented him being sentenced to life. Dominic Ongwen was convicted in February of a total of 61 war crimes and crimes against humanity including murder, rape, forced marriage, forced pregnancy and using child soldiers as a commander in the shadowy Lord s Resistance Army. His lawyers have said they will appeal the conviction. Presiding Judge Bertram Schmitt said that judges had to weigh Ongwen s brutality and victims wishes for justice against his own tortured past when deciding on a sentence.
FILE - In this Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2016 file photo, Dominic Ongwen, a senior commander in the Lord s Resistance Army, whose fugitive leader Kony is one of the world s most-wanted war crimes suspects, is flanked by two security guards as he sits in the court room of the International Court in The Hague, Netherlands. Ongwen was convicted in February, 2021 of a total of 61 war crimes and crimes against humanity including murder, rape, forced marriage, forced pregnancy and using child soldiers. His lawyers have said they will appeal the conviction. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, Pool, File) Previous Next
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Ugandan sentenced to 25 years for war crimes
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