Uganda News

[Independent] Saadi Qaddafi, one of the sons of Libya's slain dictator Moamer Qaddafi, told Al-Arabiya television by telephone from neighbouring Niger that a nationwide rebellion is brewing against the country's new rulers.

[Monitor] A post-mortem carried out over the weekend on Jeff Rice's body who died in a Kampala hotel room has revealed that he died of a suspected cocaine overdose, Police investigations have revealed.

[Independent] Life is difficult everywhere for children with special needs and physical handicaps. They face daily struggles to accomplish tasks that many take for granted such as walking to school or eating a meal.

[Independent] A close aide to DR Congo President Joseph Kabila was killed and the country's finance minister seriously injured in a plane crash in the east of the country. Two American crew members also died, as well as two people crushed by the plane as it came down at Bukavu airport on Feb. 12.

[Independent] A plan by the Canadian government to spend more than $26 million on building capacities of communities around mining areas by funding joint poverty reduction projects between NGOs and Canada's mining companies in Africa and South America has attracted both criticism and praise.

[Independent] Zulfat Mukarubega is the founder and legal representative of Rwanda Tourism University College (RTUC). Her university, which started in 2008, has grown from five students and three workers to 250 and 103 respectively today. Zulfat recently won the RDB's Business Excellence Award as the best female entrepreneur for the second time while RTUC won the best tourism SME investor for 2011. Emmanuel Tulinomubeezi talks to her about her journey to the top and how she

[Independent] According to the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies more than 40,000 people have fled clashes between two northern Kenyan tribes over access to water and pasture. "We have never seen before what we are seeing this time, entire villages, entire schools destroyed, water points sabotaged," said Alexander Matheou, IFRC head for East Africa.

[Independent] Gun-toting Shebab insurgents have staged rallies across Somalia to celebrate their group's recognition by Osama bin Laden's successor as a member of the Islamist Al-Qaeda network. "The unification of Al-Shebab with Al-Qaeda breaks the hearts of the enemy," Shebab spokesman Sheikh Ali Mohamud Rage told a crowd of several hundred in rebel-held Afgoye, just outside Somalia's war-torn capital Mogadishu.

[RFI] The president of Uganda's Forum for Democratic Change, Kizza Besigye, was hospitalised Tuesday when a political rally was dispersed by police in Kampala.

[IRIN] Apar - Amid violent confrontations, some 6,000 people in northern Uganda who spent years displaced as the army pursued the rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) have been forced to leave their newfound homes because they lie in what has become a wildlife reserve.

[Independent] Tullow Oil plc Feb.21 announced the completion of the $2.9bn farm-down of 66.6 percent of its Ugandan licences to China's CNOOC and France's Total, a statement from the oil company indicates.

[Independent] Government has been urged to celebrate days that reflect Uganda's history and abandon others that make little or nonsense.

[Independent] Uganda's President, Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has been advised to leave office and pave way for another leader eying for the most valued position in the country.

[Independent] The Democratic Party has strongly opposed the shifting of the agriculture ministry offices from Entebbe to plot 5, Kyadondo road near the city centre arguing that government is wasting tax payers' money.

[Independent] Poor garbage disposal left four people dead and others injured in Makindye a Kampala Suburb after a heavy down pour blocked drainage and caused flooding which led to the collapse of a building killing four.

[Independent] In a world made much smaller by media and technology, small reminders this weekend showed how much further we have come from being governed by race and ethnicity.

[New Times] Rwanda and Uganda have agreed to renovate two entry points at Rwempasha, Nyagatare District and Buhita, Burera District, in order to facilitate trade and cooperation between the two countries.

[Business Daily] Earlier this month Uganda announced that it had signed the much delayed oil production agreements with Tullow Oil, the main investor in the upstream oil and gas sector.

[Monitor] For the last two months, a group of 35 youths in Nakawa have been rendered unemployed after their fish farm worth Shs65m was destroyed by two people who allegedly masqueraded as officials of the national environment authority, before it emerged that they were the new owners of the land in question.

[Monitor] President Museveni's recent address to Parliament, in my view, was filled with deception. When the Speaker announced on Tuesday, February 6, that the President would be addressing the House on February 11, I sighed with dismay because my sense told me he had come to preempt the House on his government's contempt of parliamentary resolutions.