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Uganda accused the European Union of meddling on Friday after the bloc's parliament recommended sanctions over a crackdown and arrests of opponents around President Yoweri Museveni's disputed re-election last month. ....
KAMPALA Uganda accused the European Union of meddling on Friday after the bloc’s parliament recommended sanctions over a crackdown and arrests of opponents… ....
How New Vision power struggle triggered Kabushenga sacking February 10, 2021 New Vision newspaper. What started as a simple misunderstanding has escalated into a full-blown war pitting several staff against one another. Last week the feud claimed its first scalp, long-serving CEO Robert Kabushenga who was sacked by President Museveni. According to sources within the Vision Group who declined to be named to speak freely, the situation at New Vision, the cash cow of Vision Group, is so intense. Several heads may roll in the coming few days because junior staff are fighting management over the new performance contracts they are being forcibly asked to sign while the race to succeed Kabushenga is attracting more intrigue by the day. ....
Daily Monitor Saturday February 06 2021 Head of the EU Delegation to Uganda Attilio Pacific (front left) and other EU diplomats meet former presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi, alias Bobi Wine (front right), at Mr Kyagulanyi’s home in Magere, Wakiso District on Thursday. PHOTO/ABUBAKER LUBOWA Advertisement President Museveni’s letter dated January 2, in which he suspended the operations of the European donor-funded Democratic Governance Facility (DGF) project, appears to be just a continuation of a sustained effort to clamp down on inflow of foreign funding to activities that the ruling establishment suspects could subvert its hold on power. Before the decision to suspend the €100m (about Shs440b) DGF project, the government had come down hard on some civil society and other organisations, and even individuals who had received money into their accounts around the last quarter of last year. ....
English By Halima Athumani Share on Facebook Print this page KAMPALA - Ugandan victims of the Lord s Resistance Army (LRA) have welcomed the war crimes conviction of the militant group s second-in-command. The International Criminal Court in The Hague has found LRA child soldier-turned commander Dominic Ongwen guilty on 61 charges, ranging from murder and rape to kidnapping and torture.
Among the charges Ongwen was convicted of Wednesday is the crime of conscripting children under the age of 15 into the LRA’s Sinia brigade and using them to participate in hostilities.
Oyet Vincent was 12 years old, living in the Lukodi displaced person’s camp in northern Uganda, when Lord’s Resistance Army rebels launched a war against Uganda’s president, Yoweri Museveni, in 1987. ....