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POPSUS pays Uganda to arm Somali fighters The UPDF, which is in Somalia as part of an African Union peacekeeping force to the country, is said to have been paid up to $10 million (Shs21b) for arming and training the TFG fighting force. This is the first time the arms-for-cash deal is being made public and the revelations could mean that the UPDF was violating the neutral terms of its peacekeeping mandate by arming one of the combatants.
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POPSCatholic charity CARITAS supplied LRA rebels Why in the world would CARITAS agree to supply the thugs of the Lord's Resistance Army with food and supplies? How much are they getting paid by the "international sponsors" for fulfilling this contract? Is it worthwhile to give murderous thugs an incentive?
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POPSSaudis detain Ugandan without trial for over four years Under the Saudi Arabian criminal procedure, a suspect has a right to be promptly notified of the reasons for his arrest or detention and the investigator must inform the detainee of the charges when the accused appears for the first time for an investigation.
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POPSOperation Lightning Thunder still chasing LRA However, two months since the operation was launched on the rebel camps in Garamba, allied forces are yet to locate Kony, who, along with his two deputies, is wanted at The Hague for war crimes. Estimated to number about 1,000 fighters, officials say the LRA has split into smaller groups which are now hiding at the Central African Republic border.
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POPSUgandan govt takes over Gaddafi's defamation case Bujeldain said in an affidavit that Gadaffi, the leader of the Revolution of the Great Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, was being defamed by the continuous publication of related stories by the Red Pepper newspaper. Accordingly, Vincent Mugabo, the Buganda Road Court Chief Magistrate, summoned Red Pepper editor-in-chief Richard Tusiime and senior editor Francis Mutazindwa to answer charges of defaming a foreign dignitary with the intention of disturbing the peace between Uganda and Libya.
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POPSKony and 250 LRA rebels trapped in DR of Congo swamp Kony is the target of a joint operation by Congolese, Ugandan and South Sudanese forces that was launched last December. Meanwhile, the US military has defended its involvement in Operation Lightning Thunder. The joint offensive has been criticised for being poorly executed and leading to hundreds of civilian deaths.
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POPSUgandan President Museveni says LRA deputy to benefit from amnesty President Yoweri Museveni said LRA leader Joseph Kony would also have been forgiven had he signed the peace agreement in Juba, South Sudan, last April. The President made the comments while addressing a press conference at State House, Nakasero, yesterday. Museveni said although he did not believe in forgiving wrong-doers, Archbishop John Baptist Odama of Gulu Diocese and Bishop Baker Ochola of Kitgum diocese had convinced him about the need for forgiveness in Acholi, which bore the brunt of the two-decade-long war.
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POPSUS helped Ugandan assault on LRA rebels US apparently aided the recent Operation Lightning Thunder as troops from Uganda, the DR of Congo and Sudanese rebels SPLA attacked Ugandan rebels Lords Resistance Army in the DR of Congo.
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POPSLRA deputy ready to surrender Who is Okot Odhiambo ? Charles Okot Odhiambo is the 14th LRA second-in-command to Joseph Kony and ascended to the position in the rebel group in October 2007, replacing Vincent Otti, killed by Kony. He is a member of Control Altar that directs the rebel’s military strategy, including attacks and brutality aimed at civilians. Control Altar is constituted by top commanders. In October 2005, the ICC issued arrest warrants against Odhiambo, Kony, Vincent Otti, Raska Lukwiya and Dominic Ongwen. The arrest warrants followed a complaint to the ICC by President Yoweri Museveni. # According to the ICC, he is described by other LRA members as “the one who killed the most” and “a bitter man, who will kill anyone”. # Sam Kolo, a former LRA commander, describes Odhiambo as a soft-spoken but ruthless fighter, who would always carry out his missions aggressively.
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POPSMore on LRA attacks in DR of Congo Uganda's army, with the backing of Congolese and South Sudanese troops, launched assaults on LRA bases in northern Congo on Dec. 14, aiming to crush the rebels and capture their leader, self-proclaimed prophet Joseph Kony. But in more than a month of operations, coalition forces have failed to track down the rebel leader, and his fighters, estimated to number between 800 and 1,000, have embarked on a bloody campaign of terror against local villagers.
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POPSOperation Lightning Thunder continues as Kony evades capture The UPDF, Congolese army and SPLA of South Sudan launched a joint operation against the LRA rebels on December 14 after Kony refused to sign the final peace agreement agreed on in Juba, South Sudan for the fourth time. The offensive is code-named Operation Lightning Thunder.
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POPSSudan accuses LRA of more killings Forces led by Uganda and including Congolese and south Sudanese troops began bombing LRA bases in Congo's Garamba National Park on Dec. 14 after Kony again failed to sign a final peace agreement with the Ugandan government.
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POPSOperation Lightning Thunder rages on in DR Congo Nankabirwa said the troops were closing in on the rebels and were recovering more items around the LRA base in Camp Swahili. “The number which is under Joseph Kony (LRA leader) is really very small. You need to be patient to detect their movement. If they were big, it would be easier to detect them.”
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POPSLRA rebels accused of more atrocities in DR Congo The LRA is facing a joint military offensive code-named Operation Lightning Thunder being undertaken by the UPDF, SPLA of South Sudan and the Congolese army (FARDC). The offensive was launched on December 14 after Kony failed to sign the final peace agreement that was negotiated with the Government between July 2006 and April 2008 in Juba, South Sudan.
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POPSLRA rebels accused of atrocities in DR Congo and Sudan “Their attacks are further justification of this joint action against the LRA: they were never for peace,” Magezi commented. “He is just a monster, a beast and terrorist who has no value for human life.” Magezi lamented that the rebels continued to use the same horrendous tactics employed during the failed peace talks, mediated by the South Sudan government.
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POPSOperation Lightning Thunder Strikes in DR Congo On fears that the attack would kill innocent children and women in LRA camps, Magezi said the armies took the issue into consideration. “According to our intelligence, LRA fighters have been living separately from their families. These (fighters’ camps) are the ones we have attacked. We will ensure that women, children and captives are spared as we did in northern Uganda and South Sudan.”
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POPSUgandan Bill Would Outlaw Female Mutilation Medical doctors say FGM is a leading cause of maternal health complications like child mortality rate and deaths during pregnancies because the parts of the cervix will have been endangered during the mutilation. In the last five years along, there have been almost 500 deaths resulting from FGM.
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POPSUganda Grants Amnesty to over 22,000 Former Rebels The former rebels, also referred to as reporters, were concentrated in the districts of Gulu, Kitgum, Pader, Nebbi, Yumbe, Moyo, Arua, Kabarole and Katakwi. Justice Peter Onega, the chairperson of the commission, said districts with high numbers of former rebels ought to receive specialised assistance that targets the vulnerable groups and the communities.
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POPSChina sentences four Ugandans to death Seven of the convicted traffickers were busted trying to smuggle drugs into Guangzhou’s Baiyun airport, with several flying in from Bangkok in Thailand, it said. The convicts are said to have carried drug parcels ranging from 654 to 1,986 grams. Six of them had swallowed the drugs wrapped in pellets.
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POPSUganda protests Rwandan arrest President Kagame on Tuesday angrily protested the arrest, calling it a violation of sovereignty. “We will see how we can challenge such actions, which are simply a question of being arrogant and people being a law unto themselves,” Kagame said after visiting Kabuye in prison yesterday.
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POPSCongo rebels seize gorilla park headquarters Virunga National Park authorities said the rebels had seized its headquarters 5 km (3 miles) away at the same time. "When the rebels started approaching the park station we thought we were all going to be killed," Park Ranger Bareke Sekibibi was quoted as saying in a statement issued by the park. Virunga, near the border with Uganda and Rwanda, is home to around 200 of the world's 700 remaining mountain gorillas. "The conflict on the ground is chaotic and dangerous and we cannot allow our rangers to become targets," Virunga Director Emmanuel de Merode said in the statement.
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POPS Ugandan politics and the Baganda Those strategies include restriction of the Kabaka’s movements within his own kingdom and the alienation of Mengo from the peasants in Buganda by protecting the peasants against eviction from the land they already occupy. Tegulle said that those incentives were being offered in exchange for promises of support to President Museveni come election time, and that since Mengo has no financial means at a time when allegiance goes to whoever brings bread to the table rather than on sentimental attachments, Museveni will sweep Buganda in the 2011 elections. The Baganda are not fools, they may accept the NRM cash and all other incentives and still vote against the party or Museveni as a person. The events that confronted Buganda after independence and the way the current leaders are conducting themselves as evidenced by the strategies Tegulle has outlined have made Baganda more united and determined to fight for their survival.
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POPSGerman police remove two terror suspects from plane in Cologne According to the German police, the men were not planning to hijack the plane, reports the Telegraaf. It was still unclear at press time what form of attack the suspects were planning, but the paper said they were not believed to be a threat to the Netherlands. One possibility is that the two men were planning to fly on to Africa. ( comment from Dutchnews.nl)
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