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Analysis and Editorials

Obama follows in Luo footsteps

Tuesday, 06 January 2009 00:00
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Akena p'Ojok

It has been a long time coming, Barack Obama said on election night. He was right. The US President-elect has roots in a long line of African kings and leaders of the Great River Nile Basin.

The world woke up to a great occurrence in modern political history. Is it or is it not to be? The world watched and waited with tears of joy and hope as well as tears of lost dreams.

It revealed itself fully on November 4. The United States of America, the most powerful state in the world, was to have its 44th president, and this time with a bang, with a difference. The 44th president was to come from a different race, a race that has known nothing than endurance, slavery and spoliation; and he was to be called by a strange name ‘Barack Obama'.

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Don’t Legitimize Rwanda/Uganda Genocide In Congo

Sunday, 04 January 2009 01:02
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[Global Commentary: Congo Genocide]

This is in response to a New York Times Op-Ed, "Can Africa Trade Its Way to Peace?" published on December 15, 2008.

Mr. Cohen states that the failure of international diplomacy to resolve the conflicts and to end the war between Rwanda and the Congo is related to the economic roots of the problem- which began with the 1994 genocide in Rwanda - and that until the economic conundrum is addressed, there is little hope for a solution. This is obvious.

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Monitor: Come clear on the Garamba attack

Thursday, 25 December 2008 00:00
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Editorial

Once again the national army has been deployed in a foreign country without the express authorisation of Parliament. The cause that has taken UPDF, at Christmas time into the jungles of the Democratic Republic of Congo to break the back of  rebel LRA and its leader Joseph Kony, who has for two years played mind games about signing a peace agreement, is by no small measure a justifiable action.  The army, for this, deserves support of all Ugandans.
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Rugunda’s appointment looks good but it raises a red flag

Monday, 15 December 2008 00:00
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Letter to a Kampala Friend | Muniini K. Mulera

Dear Tingasiga: The appointment of Dr Ruhakana Rugunda, Uganda's Internal Affairs Minister, as the new permanent representative to the UN raises three natural questions.

First, is this a promotion or a demotion for Ndugu Rugunda? Second, is Rugunda the right man to take on the challenge of representing Africa on the Security Council? Third, what does Rugunda need to do to succeed in his new assignment?

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Land (Amendment) Bill will divide Uganda, literally (Monitor)

Sunday, 14 December 2008 00:00
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Livingstone Okello-Okello

Since the National Resistance Movement (NRM) shot its way to power in 1986, the land question has exercised the minds of Ugandans. The country has moved from one land controversy to another, ranging from the grabbing of private ranches to sub-dividing Lake Mburo National Park to the invasion of the east, north, central and part of the west by Balaalo herdsmen, to the Land (Amendment) Bill 2007, the land give –aways to the Temangalo land saga!

The concerns of the people of Uganda are not misplaced. To the majority of Ugandans, land is not just a factor of production. Land is the only means of survival; it is life; it is culture and above all, land is the basis of all power. It, therefore, follows that whoever wants to take away or grab your land, wants to take away your power and bring you under his/her direct control. In short, to enslave you.

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