Daily Monitor
Sunday January 17 2021
One of the first messages I received on New Year 2021 was from a friend, Dr William Worodria, a senior consultant at Mulago hospital. He texted to inform me that, “Retired ambassador Paul Orono Etiang has passed on at IHK of Covid-19.”
I was shocked by the sad news and remembered my last encounter with Etiang on December 14, 2020, at Rubaga Cathedral where we had gone to attend a requiem mass for our colleague and good friend, William George Naggaga (RIP).
Paul Etiang was my boss, mentor and friend for many years. He was a distinguished career diplomat, gentleman, statesman, patriot, pan-Africanist and a devout Christian.
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The East African
Monday January 11 2021
Uganda President Yoweri Museveni deployed the army to oversee security during the elections but the opposition say the military deployments are an attempt to intimidate voters and opposition supporters in order to suppress voter turnout and enable vote-rigging. PHOTO | MORGAN MBABAZI
Summary
The country goes to the polls on Thursday to elect a president and members of parliament following a campaign marred by unprecedented violence.
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Uganda’s security agencies on Friday warned of firm action against any dissent ahead of and during this week’s election after the military took over law enforcement operations.
Ugandaâs presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi alias Bobi Wine announced Sunday heâd temporarily suspended his campaigns after one of his aides tragically died in unclear circumstances while on the campaign trail.
In an incident that also left a number of journalists injured, one of them tragically, Bobi Wine, whom analysts believe is incumbent Yoweri Museveniâs main challenger in the January 2021 general elections, announced Francis Kalibala aka Frank had been killed in an accident involving an Uganda Army official vehicle.
The deceased was attached to the youthful politicianâs security detail.
Local media also reported Saif-llah Ashraf Kasirye, a journalist attached to Radio One, and doubles up as Ghetto TV cameraman had been shot at around the same place and time.
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