The death of Idi Amin Dada, prematurely reported several times by Kampala newspapers in recent weeks, may indeed be imminent. 'He is alive but remains in a near-death condition in a coma... Should he encounter further life-threatening problems, resuscitat...
The sacking of a top general has nothing to do with allegations of his corruption, say the military
In June 1996 Major General Salim Saleh, Special Advisor to President Yoweri Museveni on Military and Political Affairs in the north of Uganda, was dispatched to Gulu, the north's capital, to devise ways of ending the insurgency by the Lord's Resistance Ar...
None of the three main players brimmed with confidence about better Rwandan-Ugandan relations after their mini-summit at Britain's Lancaster House on 8 May. No new measures were agreed to verify claims that each neighbour is training rebel militias to fig...
Only a burst tyre and a forced landing made Uganda miss its 24 April deadline to pull its troops out of north-eastern Congo-Kinshasa. They set off in four Antonov transport aeroplanes for Entebbe the following day. Locals loudly cheered their farewell par...
President Museveni calls for the freeing of parties and the chance
of a third term at the top
So it's war then. Uganda's daily Monitor was unequivocal: 'Rwanda, Uganda go to war in Kigali!' screamed the headline. In fact, the Monitor was reporting a qualifying match between Kampala and Kigali in Africa's Cup of Nations soccer tournament on 29 Marc...
The confused killing in eastern Congo involves politics, tribalism and greed
Kony's northern rebels expose the ruling army's faults but Operation Iron Fist fails to defeat them
The Uganda People's Defence Force is under siege at home and abroad. Its mediation in Sudan looks even less credible than its attempts to dig its way out of its greedy and failing intervention in Congo-Kinshasa. Joseph Kony's rebels have again turned Acho...
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