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Today (09.09.2010)

Open primaries good for parties

The National Resistance Movement (NRM) voters turned up by the thousands-- if you go by official election results-- to vote in the party’s primaries. Sixteen cabinet ministers and scores of sitting MPs did not make it past the first universal adult suffrage primaries in Uganda. #00:00 09.09.2010 from channel Monitor Online

Chaos is the way NRM works, not how it fails

Just when we thought we were getting to a point where we could theoretically prevent rigging or make it minimal, the National Resistance Movement (NRM) primaries threw the door open to all manner of mayhem and mischief and showed how little we’ve learnt from the 1980 elections. #00:00 09.09.2010 from channel Monitor Online

Mbale District LC3 boss charged over poll violence

Mbale Chief Magistrate’s Court has charged the Bungokho LC3 chairperson with two counts of moving in public places armed and being in unlawful possession of military equipment. #00:00 09.09.2010 from channel Monitor Online

UK stuck with rebel negotiator

The UK government is stuck with a former top Lord’s Resistance Army rebel negotiator after the High Court there blocked his planned deportation to Uganda for alleged involvment in terrorist activity. #00:00 09.09.2010 from channel Monitor Online

al Shabaab threaten to attack Kampala again

Somali militant group al Shabaab has threatened to attack Kampala again if Uganda sends more peacekeepers to Mogadishu. #00:00 09.09.2010 from channel Monitor Online

Yesterday (08.09.2010)

More to come as Kagame takes on 7-year challenge

He has said he will not change the constitution to stay on beyond  2017, but letting go might prove his greatest challenge, writes GAAKI KIGAMBO On Monday, September 6, Paul Kagame swore to preside over Rwanda for his second – and possibly last – seven-year term in a spectacle only befitting the country’s, or more specifically his, obse #23:17 08.09.2010 from channel The Observer

ANALYST: Uganda accuses Rwanda of thunder ‘theft’

KAMPALA, September – The authorities in Kampala have accused Rwandan President Paul Kagame and his Rwanda Defence Forces (formally Rwanda Patriotic Army) of stealing their thunder once again. #20:39 08.09.2010 from channel The Observer

300 VIP guards passed out

KampalaAt least 300 police officers from the Very Important People Protection Unit who have been undergoing a Special Force training course have been passed out. #00:00 08.09.2010 from channel Monitor Online

Agriculture helps a family to pick up the pieces after the war

Because of the war, the once flourishing home of Mr John Obalo in Keyo Lelem Village, Amuru district, (north – east of Gulu town) was reduced to a bush and in 2001 was herded into the internally displaced people’s camp of Awere. #00:00 08.09.2010 from channel Monitor Online

Day before yesterday (07.09.2010)

Kagame speaks about his election victory, claims on political repression

On Tuesday August 10th, The Independent Managing Editor, Andrew M. Mwenda, hosted President Paul Kagame of Rwanda on a radio show on Contact FM in Kigali, a day after the voting in that country’s presidential election. #23:44 07.09.2010 from channel The Independent

History made

Century old law scrapped symbolising new day for press and civil freedom. On the morning of Aug 25, 2010 a dozen or so journalists clamoured into the registrar’s dingy basement office at the Court of Appeals on Parliament Avenue in the hope of witnessing history. #23:18 07.09.2010 from channel The Independent

Explain Shs20b bills, Parliament tells army

Army officials have been given up to today to prove to Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee that bills to a tune of Shs20 billion were not fabricated to steal public funds. #00:00 07.09.2010 from channel Monitor Online

Kagame attacks critics

Monitor CorrespondentKigaliRwanda’s President Paul Kagame was yesterday sworn-in for a second term in office. Addressing thousands of Rwandans and over a dozen African Heads of State, Mr Kagame lashed out at NGOs and human rights organisations that are critical of his government. #00:00 07.09.2010 from channel Monitor Online

LRA officer first victim of local war crimes court

KampalaFormer Lord’s Resistance Army rebel commander Thomas Kwoyelo was yesterday committed to the War Crimes Division of the High Court for trial on charges of crimes against humanity. #00:00 07.09.2010 from channel Monitor Online

06.09.2010

INTERVIEW: Lukwago denounces DP, Mao

It is a den of mafia, says MP Mao came in through coup DP can’t even field MPs in 50 constituencies DP’s ERIAS LUKWAGO is a blunt talker and a controversial politician who leads from the front line. He’s been arrested several times for championing DP causes. #00:30 06.09.2010 from channel The Observer

04.09.2010

Britain arrests top LRA negotiator

KampalaA former top envoy of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) rebels at the failed Juba peace talks has been arrested at Heathrow International Airport in London. #00:00 04.09.2010 from channel Monitor Online

03.09.2010

Gen. Aronda on 2011 polls, Karamoja  atrocities

Last week, the Chief of Defence Forces, Gen. Aronda Nyakairima, concluded a three-day trip to northern Karamoja to assess the progress of the ongoing disarmament programme. Our Senior Reporter Tabu Butagira, who travelled with the military, interviewed Gen. #00:00 03.09.2010 from channel Monitor Online

IPC is capable of causing regime change in 2011

A lot has been said since the Uganda Peoples Congress (UPC) commenced their journey out of the Inter-Party Cooperation (IPC) by failing to pick nomination forms for IPC flag bearer, which culminated into their already anticipated official exit from the now five-party alliance on August 30. Armchair analysts who have no field informatio #00:00 03.09.2010 from channel Monitor Online

698 to graduate at LDC

A total of 698 lawyers including top army officers and politicians will today receive their post graduate diplomas from the Law Development Centre, Kampala. Among the those graduating include ; former minister Gen. Moses Ali, former ISO boss Brig. #00:00 03.09.2010 from channel Monitor Online

02.09.2010

Remains of fallen soldiers back home

The army has, for the first time, named UPDF soldiers killed during the peacekeeping mission in war-ravaged Somalia. The commander of the Land Forces, Lt. Gen. #00:00 02.09.2010 from channel Monitor Online