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The FDC party secretary General Harold Kaija is apparently hiding in an unknown place within Kagoma in fear of being arrested. According to his post Facebook post, Kaija posted that the people he was with drove the car away when police had appeared to arrest them. We tried to reach Harold on his phone number and was unreachable. In Kagoma, Am in hiding, NRM goons attacked us while I was addressing pipo. My colleagues ran with the car, am bring hidden and protected by locals. I don’t know where I am. Two of my colleagues have been taken as captives.…
Well you must have heard about the famous 77 Days of Glory (77DOGs) at the Rubaga based Miracle Center Cathedral of Pastor Robert Kayanja. This day and night prayer session has the last three months been trending and been on spot bring people closer to God though others have criticized it on different grounds. Celebrities including Musicians, actors, Comedians and several different classes of people have embraced this mission. However on Thursday, the Church organized a mass wedding to cater for the followers who had been cohabiting for a while since God does not like the habit. Dozens of believers…
Police in Masaka has arrested eight suspects in connection with a Friday incident of the threats against the Vice President Edward Kiwanuka Ssekandi. Masaka District Police Commander, John Chrysostom Mwaule, told The Isider that more patrols are still underway to crackdown all the suspected individuals. However it has totally become indistinguishable how the group accessed the Vice President’s home which is guarded by the Special Forces Command (SFC) and dropped the leaflets which were written both in Luganda and English. According to the authors of the letter say the time is now for Ssekandi to wake up and fight what…
Youth leaders in Gogrial State have called upon President Salva Kiir to intervene in his hometown to stop the cycle of inter-communal fighting between Apuk and Aguok. At least 21 people have been killed and an additional 22 people sustained gunshot wounds. A University graduate was killed in the clash. “The communal fight within Gogrial claimed the lives of 21 people, leaving another 22 wounded. In Kuac, four people were killed, among the four, an old lady and her seven-year-old grandchild were killed at night and three others were wounded in Akac-Kuac village. In Apuk, 12 people lost their lives…
Lionel Messi ‘s International match ban overturned the FIFA Appeal committee has upheld the appeal lodged by the Argentinian Football Association, on behalf of player Messi against a decision taken by the FIFA disciplinary committee thus lifting the sanctions imposed on the Barcelona player. The March 28th Decision of FIFA disciplinary committee has been overturned by the May 4th Appeal committee in Zurich According to the FIFA disciplinary code (FDC) article 77 Messi was found Guilty of infringing article 57 of the FDC for having directed insulting words at an assistant referee. However the former (appeals committee) concluded that the…
Relatives of Vice President Edward Kiwanuka Ssekandi are in a state of panic after unknown thugs calling themselves UPPF dropped the latest anonymous letter asking him to join the fight to overthrow President Yoweri Museveni. The letter was allegedly dropped inside the residence of Ssekandi located at Kizungu village next to Hotel Zebra in Katwe-Butego division, Masaka Municipality. It is not clear how the thugs beat heavy security presence at Ssekandi’s home to drop this letter. The authors of the letter say the time is now for Ssekandi to wake up and fight what they call dictator Museveni and his…
The Minister for Security General Henry Tumukunde has urged government to consider more funding to support the country’s intelligence agencies. Tumukunde who was appearing before the Presidential Affairs committee of Parliament to defend his ministry’s budget that covers both the Internal Security Organization (ISO) and External Security Organization (ESO) noted that intelligence officers in both departments are helpless as they cannot gather intelligence information sufficiently due limited finances. He added that without intelligence, security organizations can only do a postmortem on a crisis but not curbing the exact problem. He says currently issues of pay of security officers in ESO…
Zimbabwe is the most highly developed country in Africa after South Africa, President Robert Mugabe has said. He denied that the country was a fragile state. “We have over 14 universities and our literacy rate is over 90 [%] – the highest in Africa,” he said, adding that the economy was improving. Zimbabwe has been struggling to pay its civil servants recently and is ranked 24th on the UNDP’s Human Development Index for Africa. “We have more resources, perhaps more than the average country in the world.” Mr Mugabe said, during a panel discussion on fragile states at the World…
United Nations peacekeepers in South Sudan say they have repelled an attack on one of their bases. The UN says the camp, in Leer in the north of South Sudan, came under small arms fire from the direction of the nearby government-held town on Wednesday night. The Ghanaian peacekeepers returned fire. The base is in the part of South Sudan affected by famine. Earlier on Thursday, the UN’s leading human rights official urged the government to halt any further offensive towards a key town, Aburoc, further to the north. He said tens of thousands of civilians who had fled to…
At least 1, 120 displaced people have so far died of cholera in several areas within the rebel-controlled ‘Pow State’, located in what is otherwise known as Pangak State from February until April, a senior opposition official said. Speaking to Radio Tamazuj in an interview on Wednesday, Peter Pouk Koang, Deputy Governor of Pow State, said the 1,120 people died of cholera in Ayod South, Ayod North, Pagil, Mogok, Wau, Donydeng, Pajieth and Kuachdeng areas, amid absence of humanitarian organizations in the area. Separately, the rebel-appointed deputy governor said that hundreds of people died of hunger in Ayod north and…