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Diaspora Event ~ DON’T MISS!! ~ Anne Kansiime LIVE in Maryland/D.C ~ Friday, Nov 27th, New Jersey Saturday, Nov 28th
We have all been waiting for our Ninja Anne Kansiime to grace us with rib cracking jokes here in the USA ~ Folks, the wait is over!! Kansiime is coming to Maryland this Friday, November 27th. The show starts at 6:00pm. She is g...
UWAI | The Uganda Boston Community Parents and Students Career Day Highlights!
The Uganda Women’s Association International (UWAI) hosted the first Parents and Students Career Day Educational Workshop on Saturday, November 14, 2015 at the Boys and Girls Club of Waltham. The purpose of the Workshop was...
President Forever | The Electoral Race Has Started, But the Winner Seems Pre-Ordained – The Economist
THERE is a curious new vehicle crawling the streets of Kampala, Uganda’s capital. It is a pickup truck, but mounted on its back is a sort of mechanical merry-go-round. As it crawls through traffic, two mannequins pedalling bi...
NBS TV Raw Video | Embattled Kampala Mayor Lukwago Arrested, Shots Fired, Journalist Wounded
A television reporter working for Delta TV was rushed to Mulago hospital after he was shot during a teargas-permeated scuffle in which defiant Kampala Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago was arrested. The journalist has been identified as...
Joe Malaika | Presents The 3rd Annual Excessive Fashion Show – Saturday, November 21st, Hilton Boston-Woburn, MA
Joe Malaika Presents 3rd annual Excessive Fashion which will be held on Saturday, November 21 Hilton Boston-Woburn. Venue address — 2 Forbes Road, Woburn, MA 01801. This will be a benefit fashion event in support of the...
The Citizen | President Jakaya Kikwete Bids Farewell To Tanzania’s State House
By Citizen Reporter — President Jakaya Kikwete said ten years of leadership are more than enough for the head of state to make significant changes. The president also called upon State House staff to give full support f...
Opinion ~ Bebe Cool Responds to Critics of his Support for President Museveni
Soon after Musician Maurice Kirya came out with a statement about the lost opportunity by the Artists who attended the Dinner at Speke Resort Munyonyo, to launch the Tubonga Naawe Song intended to support President Museveni...
Opinion ~ Juliana Kanyomozi Responds to Critics of her Support for President Museveni
As fallout from the recently concluded Artistes’ dinner at Speke Resort Munyonyo, continues to mount, a number of the artists who attended the event are continuing to express their opinion on why they attended and why the...
Opinion ~ Maurice Kirya, Says Ugandan Artistes’ Big Dinner with President Museveni, a Missed Opportunity
Social Media has been awash with vibrant photos from the recently concluded dinner hosted by President Museveni, featuring many Ugandan Musicians, Comedians, Actors, and key people from the Ugandan Entertainment Industry. One o...
BBC News-night | UK firm’s surveillance kit ‘used to crush Uganda opposition’
BBC Report — A UK-based firm has sold surveillance technology to Uganda which has been used to crush and potentially blackmail opponents of the president, according to documents seen by BBC News-night. An internal report ...
Video ~ Subcommittee Hearing: Ridding Central Africa of Joseph Kony ~ Rep. Christopher H. Smith (R-NJ), Chairman
Video from the House Foreign Affairs Committee ~ Subcommittee Hearing: Ridding Central Africa of Joseph Kony: Continuing U.S. Support Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations R...
These are the top four Lord’s Resistance Army leaders captured or killed since 2011
By Thomas Gibbons-Neff, The Washington Post ~ As the U.S.-backed operation to find Joseph Kony, the elusive leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), enters its fifth year, here is a look back on some of Kony’s top comman...
U.S. troops have turned to some unsavory partners to help find warlord Joseph Kony
By Craig Whitlock and Thomas Gibbons-Neff, The Washingtong Post ~ U.S. Special Operations forces have opened a new front in their hunt for the African warlord Joseph Kony, moving closer to his suspected hideout in a lawless e...
Joseph Kony and Mutiny in the Lord’s Resistance Army
By Ledio Cakaj, The New Yorker ~ Vincent Okumu Binansio, nicknamed Binany, was one of the many children who have been abducted by the Lord’s Resistance Army in northern Uganda. Captured in the mid-nineties, when the group was...
How a Texas Philanthropist Helped Fund the Hunt for Joseph Kony
By Elizabeth Rubin, The New Yorker ~ One night in July, 2010, Shannon Sedgwick Davis, a lawyer and activist from San Antonio, Texas, and the mother of two young boys, found herself seated across from the chief of the Ugandan Ar...
PRESS RELEASE ~ Statement by Prime Minister Rt Hon Dr Ruhakana Rugunda on the sudden death of Hon Gen. Aronda Nyakairima, Minister of Internal Affairs
Statement by Prime Minister Rt Hon Dr Ruhakana Rugunda on the sudden death of Hon Gen. Aronda Nyakairima, Minister of Internal Affairs: We have today learnt, with great sadness, of the sudden death of Hon Gen. Aronda Nyakairima...
The Weekly Observer | Uganda Electoral Reforms — How MPs Voted!
After three months of public consultations and a final heated debate on Tuesday, August 11, Parliament voted 277 to six to pass the controversial Constitution (amendment) Bill 2015. Key amendments included one on article 83 (1)...
Former UIA Executive Director, Dr. Maggie Kigozi, survives violent attack
The former executive director of the Uganda Investment Authority Dr. Maggie Kigozi was hospitalized, following an attack by two thugs who broke into her home in Rubaga in Kampala. Dr. Maggie Kigozi and her cousin Brenda Bag...
Opinion | Uganda will need another transition by Moses Khisa
Weekly Observer — Last week, a leading member of the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) told me he fully agrees that the country has gone ‘astray and needs to be redirected’. This view is held by Ugandans acros...
Ugandan Diaspora News | Letter from the Editor | May 2015 | Let’s Protect Workers Rights
Dear Readers, It’s May the month we celebrate International Labor Day (the US being a notable exception). But for some retired civil servants back home in Uganda the day served more as a time of reflection if not lamenta...
