Provides the latest RSS feeds for Uganda News. For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Uganda News.net http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/cat/faaba65027d16d8c/ en-us Tue, 21 May 2013 21:59:38 -0400 Tue, 21 May 2013 21:59:38 -0400 30 The crackdown on four media houses on 20 May 2013 by security agencies under unclear circumstances is a serious threat to media freedom and freedom of expression in Uganda. The security agencies' actions to deactivate KFM and Dembe FM - and the besieging ... http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/214668082/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Tue, 21 May 2013 14:35:28 -0400 http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/214668082/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Uganda unveiled Serbian Milutin Sredojevich as their new coach at a news conference in Kampala on Tuesday, less than three weeks before they play two key World Cup ... http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/214668392/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Tue, 21 May 2013 14:22:48 -0400 http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/214668392/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Uganda have appointed Milutin 'Micho' Sredojevic as their new coach. The 43-year-old fills the post that has been vacant since Bobby Williamson's contract was terminated in April and he has signed a two-year deal with the Cranes. Micho, who was sacked by Rwanda last month, said he was happy to be back in the country where he had his first coaching job in Africa. He told ... http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/214666316/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Tue, 21 May 2013 13:03:42 -0400 http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/214666316/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Maputo: The deployment of a rapid UN (United Nations) intervention force in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo should be speeded up in view of this week’s fresh unrest, UN chief Ban Ki-moon said on ... http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/214666317/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Tue, 21 May 2013 13:02:54 -0400 http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/214666317/scat/faaba65027d16d8c A siege on media houses by Ugandan security forces entered a second day on Tuesday, as they searched for a letter by an army commander that claimed President Yoweri Museveni was grooming his son to be ... http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/214665712/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Tue, 21 May 2013 12:54:58 -0400 http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/214665712/scat/faaba65027d16d8c KAMPALA, Uganda - An army general's concern that officials are at risk of assassination if they oppose President Yoweri Museveni's alleged plan to have his son succeed him has stirred controversy in Uganda because it challenges the popular view of Museveni as a moderate leader, analysts said Tuesday. Police continued their search Tuesday of a daily newspaper's offices to find Gen. ... http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/214665298/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Tue, 21 May 2013 12:53:04 -0400 http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/214665298/scat/faaba65027d16d8c East Africa: In a First for East Africa, Scientists Find Evidence That Onchocerciasis (River Blindness) May Be Eliminated After 14 Years of Long-Term Mass Drug ... http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/214666319/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Tue, 21 May 2013 12:48:25 -0400 http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/214666319/scat/faaba65027d16d8c ESKOM Uganda Ltd (EUL) was incorporated on November 22, 2002, and was awarded a concession to operate and maintain Nalubaale and Kiira Hydro Power stations in Jinja for 20 years. EUL took over operations and maintenance of the complex from Uganda Electricity Generation Company Ltd on April 1, 2003. ... http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/214666318/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Tue, 21 May 2013 12:48:25 -0400 http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/214666318/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Uganda: Onchocerciasis (River Blindness) Could Make Comeback in Northwestern Uganda If Annual Drug Administrations to Fight Parasitic Disease Are Stopped, New Study ... http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/214666320/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Tue, 21 May 2013 12:48:25 -0400 http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/214666320/scat/faaba65027d16d8c SERBIAN tactician Milutin "Micho" Sredojevic has been unveiled as the new Cranes coach on a 2yr deal this afternoon at FUFA House in Mengo. The Cranes job recently went vacant following the sacking Bobby Williamson. The Scotsman, a record four time CECAFA winner, failed on his key assignment of taking the Cranes to the final tournament of the Africa Cup of Nations. Speaking briefly in ... http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/214666321/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Tue, 21 May 2013 12:48:24 -0400 http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/214666321/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Ugandan Police surround the offices of the Daily Monitor newspaper, preventing all journalists from leaving according to the paper's political editor, in Kampala, Uganda Monday, May 20, 2013. Ugandan police forcibly entered the premises of the independent newspaper to look for evidence against an army general who recently questioned the president's alleged plan to have his son succeed ... http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/214663553/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Tue, 21 May 2013 12:13:21 -0400 http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/214663553/scat/faaba65027d16d8c ARUA, Uganda, May 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --Pan African Tobacco Group (PTG) Founder TribertRujugiro Ayabatwaannounced today that ground has been broken on the company's new $20 million tobacco processing and production operation in northern Uganda. The new warehouse and factory, located in Arua, will be operational in five months and will produce its own water and electricity. Once up and ... http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/214664173/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Tue, 21 May 2013 10:55:02 -0400 http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/214664173/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Vice president Edward Ssekandi and his political nemesis Jude Mbabaali have drawn the battle lines in a Constitutional Court petition where the Ssekandi is accused of using state resources during the February 18, 2011 Bukoto Central parliamentary polls. The battle lines were drawn on Monday at the Constitutional Court in Kampala, where the parties appeared before the registrar Erias Kisawuzi. ... http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/214664176/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Tue, 21 May 2013 10:38:06 -0400 http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/214664176/scat/faaba65027d16d8c WITH the beginning of the second term hardly a week away, the fate of nearly 13,000 schoolchildren in Kasese hangs in balance following the destruction of school facilities by the recent floods. According to the latest district disaster assessment report, the disaster affected up to 12,991 pupils in 20 primary schools. The report was signed by William Kanyesigye, the chief administrative ... http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/214664175/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Tue, 21 May 2013 10:38:06 -0400 http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/214664175/scat/faaba65027d16d8c The Acting Deputy Chief Justice, Steven Kavuma, has urged the newly appointed members of the Local Government Finance Commission to uphold the qualities the appointing authority saw in them. "Your appointment is a clear manifestation of the confidence the appointing authority has in each of you, because of your dedication to work and leadership skills. So, I call upon all of you to uphold ... http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/214664174/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Tue, 21 May 2013 10:38:06 -0400 http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/214664174/scat/faaba65027d16d8c WITH barely two years left to the deadline for the realisation of the Millennium Development Goals (MGDs), Uganda is still short of meeting the target of reducing the maternal mortality rate. Hellen Clark, the visiting administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), said although Uganda was on course in meeting some of the eight targets, maternal mortality and HIV rates were ... http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/214664177/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Tue, 21 May 2013 10:38:05 -0400 http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/214664177/scat/faaba65027d16d8c A police raid on a daily newspaper in Uganda is evidence of government-backed media harassment, the newspaper's managing editor said. Two radio stations were closed Monday and police raided the offices of The Daily Monitor, the largest independent newspaper in Uganda. Police spokeswoman Judith Nabakooba told Bloomberg News that authorities had a court order to search the newspaper's ... http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/214663865/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Tue, 21 May 2013 10:35:29 -0400 http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/214663865/scat/faaba65027d16d8c The father of Mawokota South MP Kenneth Joseph Bbosa Kiyingi is a worried man, after his son started taking what the old man regards as 'strange statements'. Kiyingi was recently one of the MPs who signed a Public Service and Local Government committee report that literally urges President Museveni to take over Kampala. City tycoon Ssalongo Bbosa, who deals in P.K chewing gum, has ... http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/214661281/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Tue, 21 May 2013 08:13:15 -0400 http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/214661281/scat/faaba65027d16d8c A fierce row is raging between a financially-constrained orphanage, which looks after 30 children, and a city tycoon, who allegedly grabbed the orphanage's land. The row between Jesus & Me Children's Ministries and a car dealer identified as Moses Kisekka, over a plot of land located in Kalambi village, Wakiso district, started in 2010. David Knowlton Japaini, the orphanage's ... http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/214661280/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Tue, 21 May 2013 08:13:15 -0400 http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/214661280/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Ugandan police closed down the offices of the Daily Monitor after it ran a series of articles about the president making his son successor, journalists said. Longtime Ugandan ... http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/214660789/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Tue, 21 May 2013 08:10:25 -0400 http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/214660789/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Two weeks after the arrest of an UNMIL staff Siryon Gerbah and two of his alleged accomplices, Miatta Stephen and Maxwell D. Julius with L$1.5m worth of compressed marijuana in Cape Mount County, agents of the Drugs Enforcement Agency (DEA) have arrested a Ugandan national with 0.53 kilograms of heroin. According to DEA charge sheet, suspect Tebandeke Sowedi, 53, was arrested at the Roberts ... http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/214660024/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Tue, 21 May 2013 07:04:57 -0400 http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/214660024/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Mukono Municipality MP Betty Nambooze has accused Deputy Speaker Jacob Oulanyah of stoking controversy in Parliament. An angry Nambooze told a news conference at the Parliamentary Members' lounge on Friday that she had asked Oulanyah not to accept the Public and Local Government's committee report into the in fights at Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) until she returned from a ... http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/214657995/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Tue, 21 May 2013 04:50:21 -0400 http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/214657995/scat/faaba65027d16d8c published a private letter by General David Sejusa calling for an investigation into allegations of a plot "to assassinate people who disagree with this so-called family project of holding onto power in perpetuity". Uganda's media regulator warned it would "penalise" excessive coverage about the Sejusa letter and a court ordered the Daily Monitor to hand over the ... http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/214657759/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Tue, 21 May 2013 04:48:14 -0400 http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/214657759/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Yoweri Museveni .On 7 May, the Daily Monitor published an article about the so-called "Muhoozi project". It claimed that there was a conspiracy to frame, or eliminate, high-ranking members of the government who do not support a plan for Museveni's son, Brigadier Muhoozi Kainerugaba, to assume power when his father steps down.The story was based on a leaked letter written on 29 ... http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/214656626/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Tue, 21 May 2013 03:51:13 -0400 http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/214656626/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Junior Lands Minister Idah Nantaba has ignored a High court order stopping her from handling a land dispute involving the Permanent Secretary in the ministry of Works and Transport, Charles Muganzi. The ownership of the land, in Sekiwunga village Wakiso district, is being contested by Caroline Twala, Lorente Ndagire, Anna Nagadya and Deezi Namatimba in the High court at Nakawa. However, even ... http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/214657014/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Tue, 21 May 2013 03:44:36 -0400 http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/214657014/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Concerned about the at least 11 court cases against junior Lands minister Idah Nantaba, Attorney General Peter Nyombi has cautioned the zealous minister not to overstep her mandate. Nantaba also heads a newly-formed committee on illegal land evictions. And Nyombi's caution followed a Tuesday press conference where Nantaba scoffed at suggestions she could be overwhelmed by lawsuits. Instead, ... http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/214657013/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Tue, 21 May 2013 03:44:36 -0400 http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/214657013/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Every May 3, matters of media freedom come under renewed focus, as we mark World Press Freedom day. And this month has not been any different. Over the years, journalists in countries like Uganda have come under sustained attack from governments that fear enlightened masses. Ugandan journalists have endured increasing physical brutality, meted out by security forces cheered on, literally, by ... http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/214657012/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Tue, 21 May 2013 03:44:36 -0400 http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/214657012/scat/faaba65027d16d8c At 3:05pm on Monday, May 13, Buganda kingdom Katikkiro (prime minister) JB Walusimbi officially stepped aside to make way for his successor Charles Peter Mayiga. Walusimbi gave a small speech that carried a word of caution for Mayiga: "It is not easy to serve this kingdom." His retirement comes during the year of the 20th coronation anniversary of Kabaka Ronald Muwenda Mutebi II. For ... http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/214656749/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Tue, 21 May 2013 03:44:32 -0400 http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/214656749/scat/faaba65027d16d8c More international arrests of people from Entebbe International airport with narcotic drugs have put Uganda under pressure to control the drugs trade in the country. A crackdown on drug dealers has taken on greater urgency as the number of arrests and convictions climb monthly in Uganda and abroad. Just this month, a woman carrying narcotics collapsed and died on arrival at the Jomo Kenyatta ... http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/214656757/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Tue, 21 May 2013 03:44:31 -0400 http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/214656757/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Six tenants in Arua town are crying foul after the High court ordered for their eviction from a building on Plot 15, Transport road. The High court, sitting in Arua, on May 14, 2013, instructed Apollo Ezama Olema, the head of Vimba Associates bailiffs, to remove all tenants and leased the building to James Nyakuni, the owner of Gaagaa Bus Company. "You are hereby directed to put the said ... http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/214656077/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Tue, 21 May 2013 02:40:26 -0400 http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/214656077/scat/faaba65027d16d8c The Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) has issued a directive requiring television broadcasters to prioritise local content over foreign content, a move aimed at promoting national identity, culture and enhance benefits from works locally created. In a recent notice, UCC, the regulator of the communications and broadcasting sector, revealed that free to air television station licensees must ... http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/214656078/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Tue, 21 May 2013 02:40:25 -0400 http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/214656078/scat/faaba65027d16d8c The Monitor Publications Ltd. managing director, Alex Asimwe on Monday expressed shock over the way the Police sealed off their premises to conduct a search for documents allegedly authored by Gen. David Sejusa. He said the Police carried out the exercise and closed the company's two radio stations - KFM and Dembe FM - in gross violation of the law. "We are horrified by this act, ... http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/214655170/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Tue, 21 May 2013 01:37:19 -0400 http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/214655170/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Police this morning besieged the Monitor Publications Limited offices located in Namuwongo - a Kampala suburb reportedly in search the controversial letter written by the Coordinator of Intelligence Services Gen. David Sejusa aka Tinyefuza. In the same raid, KFM radio a sister company of Monitor Publications Limited was shut down as well as Dembe FM. Uniformed and plain clothed officers searched ... http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/214655172/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Tue, 21 May 2013 01:37:19 -0400 http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/214655172/scat/faaba65027d16d8c World Bank Group President Dr. Jim Yong Kim and United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will make a historic joint visit to Africa's Great Lakes region from May 22 to 24 in support of a recent landmark peace agreement and to push for economic development in one of the world's most troubled regions. A statement from the World Bank dated May 20 says Kim and Mr. Ban will travel to ... http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/214655171/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Tue, 21 May 2013 01:37:19 -0400 http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/214655171/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Kabarole - Fallen Brigadier Clovis Kalyebara was buried on Monday at his ancestral home in Kyogya village East Division Fort Portal. The Chief of Defense Forces (CDF) Gen Aronda Nyakirima was represented by his deputy Lt Gen Ivan Koreta who said that the late Brig Kalyebara contributed tremendously to the liberation of Uganda as a country through which his name will always be remembered. ... http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/214655168/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Tue, 21 May 2013 01:37:19 -0400 http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/214655168/scat/faaba65027d16d8c The world bank website in a press release indicates that World Bank Group President Dr. Jim Yong Kim and United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will make a historic joint visit to Africa's Great Lakes region from May 22nd - 24th in support of a recent landmark peace agreement and to push for economic development in one of the world's most troubled regions. Kim and Mr. Ban will ... http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/214655169/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Tue, 21 May 2013 01:37:19 -0400 http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/214655169/scat/faaba65027d16d8c The civil society is urging least developed countries (LDCs) to rethink signing treaties because they may get raw deals in the end. Ambassador Nathan Irumba the CEO of Southern and East African Trade Information and Negotiations Institute (SEATINI) says the onus is on the negotiators for LDCs to ensure that they do not sign agreements that may jeopardize the interests of their countries. He was ... http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/214654991/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Tue, 21 May 2013 01:37:13 -0400 http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/214654991/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Senior minister for Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) Ruhakana Rugunda has said the government of Uganda is positioning herself to exploit fully the opportunities that are accruing from the growing demand for outsourcing in Africa. The minister made the remarks at a function held in Kampala on May 20 in which 12 trainers of trainees were passed and these will assist in training ... http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/214654990/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Tue, 21 May 2013 01:37:13 -0400 http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/214654990/scat/faaba65027d16d8c The Daily Monitor described today's police raid and closure of its operations, including the newspaper and its radio stations, KFM and Dembe FM, as a "gross disregard of Ugandan law and the violation of [its] constitutional right." About 50 armed security operatives in police uniform occupied the company's headquarters in Namuwongo at around noon, claiming to be looking for a ... http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/214654313/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Tue, 21 May 2013 00:33:13 -0400 http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/214654313/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Security personnel are continuing to search the premises of Daily Monitor and Red Pepper. Red Pepper staff say the security men appear determined to prevent the newspaper coming out tomorrow. It is believed the security are looking for information and documents related to General David Sejusa, who has has quickly moved from being an enforcer of the regime to being regarded as a renegade general. ... http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/214654314/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Tue, 21 May 2013 00:33:13 -0400 http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/214654314/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Godfrey Wekale will have to serve a 15-year jail term after the High Court in Mukono sentenced him for defiling his 12-year-old granddaughter. Justice Vincent Zehurikize convicted the 47-year-old man after he pleaded guilty to the offence. "While the convict is remorseful and has pleaded guilty, the crime he committed on his own granddaughter was a serious offence. There is need to send a ... http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/214654315/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Tue, 21 May 2013 00:33:12 -0400 http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/214654315/scat/faaba65027d16d8c The Minister of Information and National Guidance, Mary Karooro Okurut, has said the Government is not interfering with press freedom. The minister was responding to the Police's action on Monday whereby the premises of the Nation Media Group in Namuwongo and Pepper Publications in Namanve were cordoned off and KFM and Dembe FM were taken off-air. In a statement, Karooro stated: The search ... http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/214654316/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Tue, 21 May 2013 00:33:12 -0400 http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/214654316/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Nairobi - The Ugandan government should immediately end politically motivated police intimidation of newspapers and radio stations and ensure that the media can operate freely, Human Rights Watch said today. Recent raids on two newspapers and two radio stations are linked to a legal dispute in which the police have sought to obtain the source for an article by the Daily Monitor about the ... http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/214654029/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Tue, 21 May 2013 00:33:11 -0400 http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/214654029/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Rebels from the M23 movement and soldiers from the Democratic Republic of Congo army are fighting north of Goma, just days before United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon is due to visit the troubled eastern part of the country. The volatile mineral-rich region has been rocked by hours of fierce fighting with mortars and rocket launchers in the first clashes involving M23 since December. The rebels ... http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/214651567/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Mon, 20 May 2013 21:32:13 -0400 http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/214651567/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Mara Online , a family of online and mobile platforms that allow users to communicate, interact and collaborate with each other. Thakkar, who is the founder and CEO ... http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/214648926/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Mon, 20 May 2013 19:24:26 -0400 http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/214648926/scat/faaba65027d16d8c A spokesman for Uganda’s government says President Yoweri Museveni’s administration will continue with investigations into a security breach despite, criticisms that it is contravening the constitution. "That is not true that the government is stifling freedom of the press or freedom of the people of Uganda," said government spokesman Fred Opolot. "The police and the ... http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/214644241/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Mon, 20 May 2013 18:07:58 -0400 http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/214644241/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Kirk Douglas will be discussing his friend and frequent co-star Burt Lancaster at a screening June 7 at the Billy Wilder Theater of "Gunfight at the O.K. ... http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/214643006/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Mon, 20 May 2013 17:03:43 -0400 http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/214643006/scat/faaba65027d16d8c NAIROBI -- Police in Uganda's capital have closed down the offices of the Daily Monitor. According to the Daily Monitor's senior correspondent, police have declared the premises of their publication a crime scene and are doing a thorough search of the building. Earlier this month, the Daily Monitor published a series of stories about Uganda's coordinator of intelligence ... http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/214639994/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Mon, 20 May 2013 15:17:46 -0400 http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/214639994/scat/faaba65027d16d8c REBELS from the M23 movement and the army are fighting north of Goma just two days before UN chief Ban Ki-moon is due to visit the troubled eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. The volatile mineral-rich region was rocked by hours of fierce fighting with mortars and rocket launchers in the first clashes involving M23 since December. The rebels briefly occupied the regional capital of Goma in ... http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/214641575/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Mon, 20 May 2013 15:14:13 -0400 http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/214641575/scat/faaba65027d16d8c SECRETARY-GENERAL TO MEET PRESIDENT OF MOZAMBIQUE, ADDRESSES EVENT ON MILLENNIUM GOALS The Secretary-General arrived in Mozambique earlier on Monday from Russia. The Secretary-General took part in ... http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/214640520/scat/faaba65027d16d8c Mon, 20 May 2013 14:52:37 -0400 http://www.ugandanews.net/index.php/sid/214640520/scat/faaba65027d16d8c