Kampala, Uganda | IAN KATUSIIME | RO/00023 Gen. Elly Tumwine who succumbed to cancer on Aug. 25 served the country in many capacities. Tumwine was taken ill in Nairobi weeks ago after his condition deteriorated. A loyal cadre to the National Resistance Army (NRA) and even more loyal to the …
Read More »Catholic Bishop of ‘green evangelization’ dies
The Bishop Emeritus of the Catholic Diocese of Nebbi in Uganda who was laid to rest on Aug.17 is being remembered for his love for nature and evangelisation through the protection of the environment. OBITUARY | AGNES AINEAH | In his tribute to Bishop Martin Luluga at his Funeral Mass, …
Read More »Prof. Rachel Musoke dies at 78
OBITUARY | RONALD MUSOKE | Prof. Rachel Nandawula Musoke, 78, passed away on May 30 after distinguishing herself in a 40-year medical career at Kenyatta National Hospital in Nairobi, Kenya, where she is more known and celebrated than in her native Uganda. She began working as a neonatologist at Kenyatta …
Read More »OBITUARY: Fr. Simon Lokodo, morality champion, dies at 64
Priest-turned-politician was loved and hated in equal measure for fighting homosexuality Kampala, Uganda | IAN KATUSIIME | Father Simon Lokodo, the former minister for Ethics and Integrity, who waged a war on minorities like the LGBT community and proposed to ban the miniskirt, died on Jan. 28 in Geneva, Switzerland. …
Read More »Christopher Columbus Sembuya: Uganda’s indigenous industrialist dies at 86
OBITUARY | Ronald Musoke | Christopher Columbus Sembuya, the remaining founder of Sembule Group of Companies, one of Uganda’s indigenous companies renowned in its prime years for making radio and television sets, “landline” telephones and even street lights passed away quietly in Kampala Hospital on Jan.11. But, in perhaps a …
Read More »The living history of Bob Kasango
THE LAST WORD | Andrew M. Mwenda | On Saturday night, my best friend and brother, Robert Aldridge Kasango, died in Murchison Bay Hospital inside Luzira Prison. The cause of death was heart failure! He was only 46 years. Bob didn’t have to die at this early age and in the …
Read More »JAMES ODONGO: Founder and headmaster of ‘The School of Hard Knocks’
The life of Bishop James Odongo ✳ March 27, 1931 – BORN in Molo, Bukedi district ✳ May 8, 1931 – Baptized by Fr Willemen of Nagongera ✳ 1944 – Joined Nyenga Seminary ✳ 1956 – Ordained priest in Rome ✳ 1965 – Consecrated Bishop ✳ 1965 – Attends Second Vatican Council ✳ 1968 – Appointed Bishop …
Read More »Col. Bantariza: A lion retires
THE LAST WORD | Andrew M. Mwenda | I woke up yesterday morning only to hear that the deputy head of the Uganda Media Centre Col. Shaban Bantariza is dead. The news struck me like a thunderbolt partly part because I least expected it but largely because Bantariza was not …
Read More »Phil Manzi, a lesson in greatness
THE LAST WORD | Andrew M. Mwenda | Last night, Sunday 19th of April 2020, I lost a young friend, Phil Manzi, to lymphoma, cancer of the lymph nodes! He was only 19! Why does death suddenly rob the world of such a young soul whose future was ahead …
Read More »Chebet Maikut: Uganda’s Climate Change champion dies at 59
OBITUARY | By By Ronald Musoke | When the 25th UN climate conference opens in Santiago, Chile, this December; the Ugandan delegation will be missing one usual member –Chebet Maikut. He died suddenly on Oct. 02— exactly two months to the next round of climate change talks scheduled for Dec.02-13. …
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