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Uganda Date: 30 October 2008
Refugee Review Tribunal AUSTRALIA RRT RESEARCH RESPONSE Research Response Number: UGA33919 Country: Uganda Date: 30 October 2008 Keywords: Uganda – Uganda People’s Defence Force – Intelligence agencies – Chieftaincy Military Intelligence (CMI) – Politicians This response was prepared by the Research & Information Services Section of the Refugee Review Tribunal (RRT) after researching publicly accessible information currently available to the RRT within time constraints. This response is not, and does not purport to be, conclusive as to the merit of any particular claim to refugee status or asylum. This research response may not, under any circumstance, be cited in a decision or any other document. Anyone wishing to use this information may only cite the primary source material contained herein. Questions 1. Please provide information on the Uganda Peoples Defence Force (Ugandan Army)/Intelligence Agencies and a branch of the Army called Chieftaincy Military Intelligence, especially its history, structure, key officers. Please provide any information on the following people: 2. Noble Mayombo (Director of Intelligence). 3. Leo Kyanda (Deputy Director of CMI). 4. General Mugisha Muntu. 5. Jack Sabit. 6. Ben Wacha. 7. Dr Okungu (People’s Redemption Army). 8. Mr Samson Monday. 9. Mr Kyakabale. 10. Deleted. RESPONSE 1. Please provide information on the Uganda Peoples Defence Force (Ugandan Army)/Intelligence Agencies and a branch of the Army called Chieftaincy Military Intelligence, especially its history, structure, key officers. The Uganda Peoples Defence Force UPDF is headed by General Y Museveni and the Commander of the Defence Force is General Aronda Nyakairima; the Deputy Chief of the Defence Forces is Lt General Ivan Koreta and the Joint Chief of staff Brigadier Robert Rusoke. -
Uganda Joint Statement
JOINT STATEMENT ON THE OCCASION OF THE VISIT TO UGANDA OF THE VICE PRESIDENT OF INDIA, Mr MOHAMMAD HAMID ANSARI FROM 21 – 23 FEBRUARY 2017 The Vice President of India, Mr Mohammad Hamid Ansari paid an official visit to Uganda from 21st to 23rd February 2017. The Vice President was accompanied by his spouse Mrs Salma Ansari and a delegation comprising Minister of State, Mr Vijay Sampla, four Members of Parliament, other Senior Government Officials and a business delegation. 2. Vice President Ansari met and held bilateral discussions with President of the Republic of Uganda Mr Yoweri Museveni, at State House, Entebbe on Wednesday 22nd February 2017. Vice President Ansari also met the Vice President of Uganda Mr Edward Ssekandi, Speaker of Uganda Ms Rebecca Alitwala Kadaga and Prime Minister Mr Ruhakana Rugunda. The Vice President addressed a business event jointly organised by the Private Sector Foundation of Uganda and Federation of India Chambers of Commerce and Industry. VP Ansari visited the Source of the Nile in Jinja and paid floral tribute at the bust of Mahatma Gandhi. VP also interacted with the Indian Community in Uganda. 3. During the discussions, Vice President Ansari and President Museveni acknowledged the long-standing excellent historical relations that exist between Uganda and India. Both sides acknowledged the huge potential in India-Uganda bilateral relations and re-affirmed the mutual desire to strengthen economic, diplomatic, military, technical, educational, scientific and cultural cooperation between India and Uganda. In this regard, it was acknowledged that there were an estimated over 26000 persons of Indian origin in Uganda who contribute immensely towards Uganda’s national economy. -
The Electoral Commission
THE REPUBLIC OF UGANDA THE ELECTORAL COMMISSION Telephone: +256-41-337500/337508-11 Plot 55 Jinja Road Fax: +256-31-262207/41-337595/6 P. O. Box 22678 Kampala, Uganda E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.ec.or.ug th Ref: ………………………………………Adm72/01 Date: ....9 ......................................... July 2019 Press Statement Programme for Elections of Interim Chairpersons in the Seven Newly-created Districts The Electoral Commission informs the general public that the following seven (7) newly- created districts came into effect on 1st July 2019: 1. Madi-Okollo District, which has been created out of Arua District; 2. Karenga District, which has been created out of Kaabong District; 3. Kalaki District, which has been created out of Kaberamaido District; 4. Kitagwenda District, which has been created out of Kamwenge District; 5. Kazo District, which has been created out of Kiruhura District; 6. Rwampara District, which has been created out of Mbarara District; and, 7. Obongi District, which has been created out of Moyo District. Accordingly, the Electoral Commission has appointed Thursday, 25th July, 2019 as the polling day for Elections of Interim District Chairperson in the above seven newly- created districts. Voting shall be by Electoral College and secret ballot and will be conducted at the headquarters of the respective new district, starting at 9:00am. The Electoral College shall comprise District Directly Elected Councillors and District Women Councillors representing the electoral areas forming the new districts. Please note that the elections of District Woman Representative to Parliament in the above newly-created districts will be conducted in due course. -
Special Sessions for Sexual and Gender Cases 788 Sexual and Gender Based Violence Cases Cleared in 40 Days
Issue 12 |January 2019 Special sessions for sexual and gender cases 788 Sexual and Gender Based Violence cases cleared in 40 days Key highlights for the 21st Annual Judges’ Ben Kiwanuka Memorial year 2018 Conference - Concept Lecture rekindles fond memories THROUGH THE LENS Top representatives of the Executive, Legislature and the Top representatives of the Executive, Legislature and the Judiciary at the 2018 Opening of the New Law Year event Judiciary at the 2018 Opening of the New Law Year event at the Judiciary headquarters in Kampala on January 29, at the Judiciary headquarters in Kampala on January 29, 2018. The event is a State function. 2018. The event is a State function. Justice and Constitutional Affairs Minister, Kahinda Otafiire, The Principal Judge, Dr. Yorokamu Bamwine, inspects an is joined by Justice, Law and Order Sector stakeholders at inmates’ food stall at Luzira Prison Complex during a hands- the commissioning of Mitooma Justice Centres on August 30, on Plea Bargain training on May 2, 2018. Looking on is the 2018. Commissioner (Custodial Sentences), Robert Munanura. High Court Judge (Judiciary Projects/Execution & Bailiffs Secretary to Judiciary, Kagole Expedito Kivumbi, in a Division), Gadenya Paul Wolimbwa, displays the Sudreau Global candid talk with Judiciary senior management staff during Justice Award 2018 that he received in recognition of his a team building exercise at the High Court Gardens in contribution to the Justice Sector in Uganda, June 21, 2018. Kampala on September 6, 2018. INSIDE. The best is yet to come 2 21st Annual Judges’ Conference - Concept 5 Judiciary highlights for the year 2018 20 788 cases cleared in 40-day SGBV sessions 25 Ben Kiwanuka Memorial Lecture rekindles he New Year is a time for looking back and for fond memories looking forward. -
Role of Media in Curbing Corruption: the Case of Uganda Under President Yoweri K
Economic & Social Affairs DESA Working Paper No. 72 ST/ESA/2009/DWP/72 January 2009 Role of media in curbing corruption: the case of Uganda under President Yoweri K. Museveni during the “no-party” system Monica Nogara Abstract Free, independent and hard-hitting media can play an important role in curbing corruption. Media in Uganda has enjoyed considerable freedom in this regard since Museveni came to power in 1986. The evolving power structure and a changing media landscape, however, have presented both challenges and opportunities for media’s watchdog role on corruption. This paper will explore how this environment defined such role between 1986 and 2006 during Museveni’s “no-party” rule. It argues that, although media won important battles to promote accountability in public offices, the regime’s complex power structure has consistently challenged their role as an instrument of public accountability. JEL Classification: D72, D73, D81, D82, D83, H11, K40, L82 Keywords: corruption, media, press freedom, governance, rule of law Monica Nogara is currently Economic Affairs Officer in the Office for ECOSOC Support and Coordination. E-mail: [email protected] Comments should be addressed by email to the author. Contents Introduction ................................................................................................................................. 1 The role of media in curbing corruption ............................................................................. 2 The case of Uganda under President Yoweri K. Museveni ............................................................ -
IOM 2019 Report.Pdf
2019 2 IOM IN UGANDA, 2019 South Sudan Moyo Koboko Lamwo Yumbe Obongi Amuru D.R. Congo Hoima/Kikuube Nakasongola Ntoroko Iganga Bundibudyo Kenya Kasese Rubirizi Rukungiri Masaka Rwanda Tanzania Districts of Kampala Hoima Kikuube Isingiro Mbarara Yumbe Moyo Kyegegwa Lamwo Koboko Amuru Kasese Kisoro Bundibugyo Ntoroko Kaabong Amudat Moroto ⦿ Iganda Masaka ⦿ Rubirizi ⦿ Rukungiri⦿ Obongi⦿ Nakasongola,⦿ and in⦿ the refugee⦿ settlements⦿ of Nakivale, ⦿ Kyangwali,⦿ Kyaka ll,⦿ Palorinya and⦿ Bidibidi. ⦿ ⦿ ⦿ ⦿ ⦿ ⦿ ⦿ ⦿ ⦿ ⦿ ⦿ 3 IOM staff pose at the end of a team-building retreat Foreword by IOM in Our Migration Policy C Partners Chief of Mission Brief and Data O 4 5 6 7 N Community Humanitarian Protection & Resettlement T Emergencies Stabilization Assistance and Movement E 11 17 21 25 N Migration Migration, Immigration Canada Visa T Health Environment & & Border Application Programmes Climate Change Management Centre S 29 39 41 44 4 FOREWORD In Kampala, we supported youths, women and refugees and migrants, thanks to the Strengthening Social Cohesion and Stability in Slum Populations (SSCoS) project, funded by the European Union Trust Fund for Africa (EUTF), as well as two other projects funded by the Government of the United States of America. Labour exportation remains a thriving business, but fraught with problems such as inadequate protection abroad, and human trafficking. The Better Migration Management Programme (BMM), funded by EUTF and the German Government, worked to improve labour externalization, prevent human trafficking and improve border -
An Analysis of Uganda's Truth Commission
View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by YorkSpace The Politics of Acknowledgement: An Analysis of Uganda’s Truth Commission Joanna R. Quinn1 Doctoral Candidate Department of Political Science McMaster University YCISS Working Paper Number 19 March 2003 The YCISS Working Paper Series is designed to stimulate feedback from other experts in the field. The series explores topical themes that reflect work being undertaken at the Centre. 1 I wish to thank Dr. Rhoda Howard-Hassmann of McMaster University for our on-going dialogue on this subject. I also gratefully acknowledge the support of Dr. William Coleman and the Institute on Globalization and the Human Condition of McMaster University, and of the International Development Research Centre in Ottawa, Canada. In the aftermath of a period of gross atrocity at the hands of the state, the restoration of the political and social fabric of a country is a pressing need. In the case of Uganda from the mid-1960s forward, this need was particularly real. Almost since the country had gained independence from Britain in 1962, a series of brutal governmental regimes had ransacked the country, and had viciously dealt with its inhabitants. Nearly thirty years of mind-numbing violence, perpetrated under the regimes of Idi Amin and Milton Obote, culminated in a broken society. Where once had stood a capable people, able to provide for themselves on every level, now was found a country whose economic, political, and social systems were seriously fractured. Under both Obote and Amin, as well as the transitional governments in place between and immediately following these regimes, democracy and the rule of law had been suspended. -
Museveni, Mbabazi, Barya Nominated
2 NEW VISION, Wednesday, November 4, 2015 ELECTION 2016 Mbabazi shaking hands with Kiggundu during nomination Baryamureeba hands documents to Kiggundu at Namboole Museveni, Mbabazi, Barya nominated By Moses Walubiri Baryamureeba nominated and Pascal Kwesiga At 10:55am, 17 minutes after making his entrance, Baryamureeba too got The faces of candidates to appear nominated. on the ballot paper for next year’s The academic-turned-politician presidential elections became clearer said he intends to revamp Uganda’s yesterday, following the nomination health and education sectors an of President Yoweri Museveni and integral component of his campaign. former premier, Amama Mbabazi. “You cannot think of development The other candidate nominated when you have an ailing health by the Electoral Commission (EC) sector, and broken education sector,” was former Makerere University Baryamureeba noted, saying Mbabazi vice-chancellor, Prof. Venansius and Museveni are the same. Baryamureeba. “If Mbabazi and Museveni were Although the EC expected five of bishops, they would be retired clerics the 10 candidates that had satisfied now. I am just 46 years. This country the requirement of collecting needs someone of my energy and signatures of not less than 100 calibre,” he added. voters in at least two thirds of all the Mbabazi and Baryamureeba districts in Uganda, only four turned picked the signs of a chair and a up. clock respectively which they will “By the powers entrusted in me use during their campaigns since by the Electoral Commissions Act, they are contesting as independent I declare Yoweri Kaguta Museveni candidates. a duly nominated candidate,” EC However, Charles Bbale Lwanga of chairman, Dr. -
Performance Snapshot Palorinya Q4
Performance Snapshot Quarter 4 Uganda Refugee Response Plan (RRP) 2020-2021 January - December 2020 122,244 Palorinya Refugee Settlement Refugees & Asylum Seekers 33 Partners 30,364 HHs Moyo/Obongi Sub-Office Sector Actual status per key indicator Target/Standard (2020 revised) Actual against annual target or standard 66% children of school going age 100% 66% 34% enrolled in primary school (Term I 2020) 0 20 40 60 80 100 The pupil teacher ratio for primary Actual | 1:103 Education 1:71 schools was 1:103 (Term I 2020) Target 0 21 42 63 84 105 2,576 households using alternative 9,972 (target) 0 26% 20 40 60 80 100 and/or renewable energy (Q1 - 4 data) 1/HH (standard) 257.2 hectares of forests, wetlands, Environment & riverbanks and lakeshores protected 0 20 40 60 80 100 Energy 200 ha >100% and restored 117,528 refugees received monthly 122,244 Individuals 96% in-kind food assistance (In Q4) 0 20 40 60 80 100 Food 37% of HH with poor or borderline 18% (original 2020 target) Security Food Consumption Score (In Q4) <20% (standard) 0 8 16 24 32 40 The severe Acute Malnutrition 75% (target) Actual | 56% recovery rate was 56% (In Q4) > 75% (standard) Target/standard 0 15 30 45 60 75 Health & The under-five mortality rate was 0.1 0.1 (target) Actual | 0.1 Nutrition per 1,000 children (In Q4) < 1.5 (standard) Target/standard 0.0 0.3 0.6 0.9 1.2 1.5 8,405 refugee households received 14,847 HHs 57% emergency livelihood support (Q1 - 4 data) 0 20 40 60 80 100 Livelihoods & Resilience 4,306 refugees received financial 2,000 Individuals >100% literacy -
African Studies Quarterly
African Studies Quarterly Volume 8, Issue 2 Spring 2005 Neither Peace nor Justice: Political Violence and the Peasantry in Northern Uganda, 1986-1998 ADAM BRANCH Abstract: Uncertainty abounds concerning the 19-year conflict in Northern Uganda between the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) and the Ugandan government. Two questions have received the most attention and could have the most bearing on efforts to resolve the conflict: first, why has the Ugandan government been unable or unwilling to end the war for nineteen years? Second, why has the LRA chosen to use extreme violence against the Acholi instead of trying to build popular support? First, this article addresses these questions, arguing that the debate has failed to take into account the political agency of the Acholi peasantry in the conflict and the relations between the peasantry and government, on the one hand, and the peasantry and the LRA, on the other. By putting the Acholi peasantry and its relations with government and rebels at the center of the analysis, the longevity of the war and the tendency by both rebels and government to use violence against the peasantry can be made sense of as a consequence of both sides' failure to realize an effective popular mobilization among the Acholi. Second, the article traces historically these failures of popular mobilization and the paths by which both the Ugandan government and the LRA came to see the population as a threat and potential enemy instead of as a potential support base. Third, by putting the people at the center of the analysis of the conflict, the groundwork is laid for putting the people at the center of the resolution of the conflict, transcending the current tendency of conflict resolution agendas to focus only on elites, treating the civilian population as passive bystanders or victims. -
Uganda Relations
India-Uganda Relations The bilateral relations between India and Uganda are characterised by historical cultural linkages, extensive economic and trade interests, and a convergence on major bilateral and international issues. A 27000+ Indian/PIO population in Uganda, a bilateral trade of nearly US$ 1.3 billion, a steady surge of Indian investments making India consistently one of the top investors in Uganda, capacity building training programmes and institutions, and a common and deep respect for universal values like democracy and peace reinforce the architecture of India-Uganda bilateral relations. Trade and economic interests brought several Indians to the shores of East Africa as early as the 17th century in dhows laden with their wares. Eventually a number of Indians settled in East Africa, and many made Uganda their home. India's freedom struggle inspired the early Ugandan activists to fight colonization and Uganda eventually achieved Independence in 1962. India established it diplomatic presence in Uganda in 1965. Except for the era of Idi Amin’s reign in early 70's when nearly 55,000 Persons of Indian Origin (PIOs) and 5000 Indian nationals were expelled and their properties confiscated, relations between the two countries have since been cordial. The anti-Indian policies of Amin were reversed when the current President YoweriKagutaMuseveni came to power in 1986. The current Government’s progressive policies ensured that the India-Uganda relations were restored to erstwhile levels. Uganda remains an important partner in Africa. India and Uganda closely cooperate at regional and international fora. Exchange of High-Level Visits: From India: • Prime Minister Shri. -
Project Evaluation Report
Project Evaluation Report Prevalence of SGBV and Impact of TPO Psychosocial Support Model and Livelihoods Interventions on Mental Health Recovery of SGBV Survivors in Emergency in the West Nile Region. Prepared by Denis Nuwagaba (Lead), Dorothy Najjingo and Fatuma Arinaitwe ULINZI INNOVATIONS CONSULT LIMITED December 2019 1 Acronyms ARC American Refugee Council AWYAD African Women and Youth Action for Development CBT(T) Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Trauma CFPU Child and Family Protection Unit of the Police CHS Core Humanitarian Standards CPC Child Protection Committee DCDO District Community Development Officer DFID Department for International Development FGD Focus Group Discussion FGM Female Genital Mutilation GALS Gender Action Learning Systems IASC Inter-Agency Steering Committee IEC Information, Communication & Education IGAs Income Generating Activities INGOs International Non-Governmental Organizations IRC International Rescue Committee KII Key Informant Interview LC Local Council LWF Lutheran World Federation MH Mental Health MHPSS Mental Health Psychosocial Support MTI Medical Teams International NURI Northern Uganda Resilience Initiative PFA Psychosocial First Aid PSEA Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse PTSD Post Traumatic Stress Disorder RWC Refugee Welfare Committee SASA Start, Awareness, Start, Actions SGBV Sexual Gender Based Violence SOPs Standard Operating Procedures TOR Terms of Reference TPO Transcultural Psychosocial Organization UN United Nations UNFPA United Nations Population Fund UNHCR United Nations High Commission for Refugees VPAs Volunteer Psychosocial Assistants VSLAs Village Saving and Loans Associations WFP World Food Program WHO World Health Organization WV World Vision 2 Project Location Map Map Showing TPO-Uganda UN WOMEN Trauma Care & SGBV Project Implemented in Lamwo, Adjumani and Obongi Districts. Source: Operational Presence Uganda Refugee Response Plan (RRP) 2019-2020 3 Table of Contents Acronyms .........................................................................................................