The government declared Wednesday 11 August, 2010 a public holiday in honour of former president Godfrey Binaisa.

Binaisa's casket was laid to rest at Nateete Mackay Church which marked the end of the week of mourning that was announced earlier by the government.

He was the second former Ugandan president to die in the country, after Gen. Tito Okello Lutwa, who ruled from July 26, 1985 to January 26, 1986, when President Museveni took over power.

Eminent terror attack as suspects confess
The Inspector General of Police Maj. Gen. Kale Kayihura revealed that terrorists were targeting stop points for fuel tankers, filling stations and tanks, populated establishments including schools and also intended to assassinate VIPs.

Meanwhile, Edrisa Issa Luyima confessed before the Buganda Road Court magistrate that he smuggled the suicide bomb jackets into the country from Somalia.

His other two brothers, Edrisa Nsubuga and Haruna Hassan Luyima, appeared before two magistrates at Nakawa Court, where they made statements.  

15,000 turn up for 500 police jobs
Over 15,000 applicants turned up for the police recruitment exercise of 500 cadets countrywide amid complaints from politicians over age limit.

Most of the applicants, who were above 30 years for professionals and 25 years for other courses, were rejected, raising arguments and prompting politicians to intervene.

However deputy police spokesperson Vincent Ssekate said they had again revised the age of applicants for police cadets to30 for all and extended the application date.

FDC warns of inflated voters register
The opposition Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) said the national voters register was bloated.

Toterebuka Bamwenda, FDC party deputy spokesman said that Uganda's population of 31 million people could not produce 15 million voters as it had been announced by the Electoral Commission (EC).

The EC recently announced that it had registered 15,002'720 voters of which 159,419 registered more than once.

Donors cut 2010/11 budget support
The World Bank, the European Commission and other development partners, announced that they had cut the promised $360million (Ush773.4b) budget support to Uganda by 10 per cent.

They pegged the slice to Uganda's good macro-economic performance during the global economic crisis but also failure to fight corruption, especially in relation to the 2007 Commonwealth heads of state summit.

Muslims observe Ramadhan
Muslims started fasting following the sight of the new moon on Tuesday evening.

Sheik Rajab Kakooza, the head of Sharia at Uganda Muslim Supreme Council appealed to all Muslims to be kind and generous to the poor and pray for peace throughout next year's general elections.

Ramadhan occurs every 9th month of the Islamic calendar and Muslims are expected to abstain from sex and food until the fast is broken at sunset daily.

Kagame in landslide victory
Rwandan President, Paul Kagame, of the Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF), won 92.9 per cent of 17,824 votes cast in the country's second election since 1994.

Reported figures from the Rwandan Diaspora community released early in the week put the incumbent's result at 96.7 per cent.

Dr Jean Damascene Ntawukuriyo, Social Democratic Party (SDP) candidate received 4.9 per cent, Prosper Higiro of the Liberal Party (LP), 1.5 per cent and PPC candidate, Dr Alvera Mukabaramba managed only 0.7 per cent of the ballots cast.

Tension as ISO boss forfeits office
Security minister Amama Mbabazi and the Coordinator of Security Agencies, Gen.David Tinyefuza, supervised Dr Amos Mukumbi's exit as Director General of the Internal Security Organisation (ISO).

Dr Mukumbi, who was forced to hand over office to his deputy, Lt.Ronnie Balya, was sacked by President Museveni following an audit of the July 11 terror attacks in Kampala which placed most blame on ISO's failures. blog comments powered by Disqus

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