From Uganda Corespondent Arinaitwe Rugyendo… Rwandan President Paul Kagame has variously been described as a leader with an ascetic temperament, stern, ruthless to opponents and thieves, and a firm, unyielding African megalomaniac. But beneath this slate is a state ranked by Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) as the least corrupt in East Africa and [...]

From Uganda Corespondent Arinaitwe Rugyendo… I spent the last three days of the passing week in Rwanda at the invitation of the Office of the President of Rwanda, H.E Paul Kagame. The purpose of the invitation was that the president wanted me to see for myself how Rwandans run their affairs and report objectively. The [...]

From Ugandan Corespondent Arinaitwe Rugyendo… Why is the African Union silent on the pro-democracy demonstrators in London who are being referred to as hoodlums? The AU should call on the United Kingdom to respect the rights of the British people to exercise their right to demonstrate and freely express themselves. Those arrested should be subject [...]

From Uganda Corespondent Arinaitwe Rugyendo… It’s been ten years of my struggle for media entrepreneurship in Uganda via Red Pepper. But what have I learned from this struggle? It is difficult to own, run and sustain a newspaper in Uganda, unless you are prepared to live a life of stress for the rest of your [...]

From Ugandan Corespondent Arinaitwe Rugyendo… The Drama between the Ugandan Government and  Kenya Airways over the latter’s offloading of Ugandan opposition leader Col. Kiiza Besigye off one of its flights en route  to Uganda, is finally over with the announcement that the FDC leader  is scheduled to return home on ‘Friday 13th’ according to FDC [...]

From Uganda Corespondent Arinaitwe Rugyendo… The Arab League, while naively plays mule to the bad intentions of the Western powers, forget that once the sound of the gunstops in Libya, they will be looking for the next prey.  Happenstances of history have taught us a lesson which we are busy deleting from our minds. We cheered [...]

From Uganda Corespndent Arinaitwe Rugyendo… The actual feeling across the Western World and in the largely quiet African continent is that the Libyan leader, Col. Muammar Gaddafi’s days are numbered following nearly two weeks of unrest across the desert oil-rich country. The signs are clear. His most close aides in the military, cabinet and the [...]

From Uganda Corespondent Arinaitwe Rugyendo… Late last week, I held a brief phone chat with Col. Felix Kulayige, the Spokesman of the Uganda Peoples Defense Forces (UPDF) over reports that our forces have deployed along the Congo and Sudan borders with Uganda. This followed the confusion occasioned by the denials from the government of Uganda [...]

From Uganda Corespondent Arinaitwe Rugyendo… Perhaps the biggest surprise so far about the 2011 presidential elections campaigns, is the ‘peacefulness’ in which the candidates and their supporters are conducting themselves. We have not heard of beatings and related violent scenes to the levels that we have witnessed in the past three elections since Uganda returned [...]

From Ugandan Corespondent Arinaitwe Rugyendo… July 11, 2010 was indeed a gruesome day in Uganda. Gruesome in the sense that in the aftermath of the devastating twin bomb blasts that left nearly 80 people dead and scores injured, the question now on everyone’s mind is whether Uganda should retaliate. Others have been asking when, not [...]