Arua Member of Parliament Morine Osoru has been elected President of the Forum of Young Parliamentarians of the Inter Parliamentary Union (IPU).

Osoru was elected yesterday, after beating competition from Russia and Zambia.

The legislator is part of the Ugandan delegation that is attending the 136th IPU Meeting in Dhaka, Bangladesh from April 1-5, 2017.

Osoru says her ascension to the presidency of the youth body is an opportunity to amplify youth issues worldwide.

“I am going to use my position as President to tackle youth challenges such as unemployment and poverty which sometimes predispose young people to being radicalized into terrorism as we have seen in some parts of the world,” Osoru said.

The Speaker of Parliament Rebecca Kadaga received the news of the election of Osuro with delight.

“I am very excited for Hon. Osoru because it was only yesterday at the African Geopolitical Group meeting that I presented her name to contest for that position,” Kadaga said, adding: “I congratulate her and the youth of Uganda, the people of Arua and the NRM government for making it possible for her to be here.”

As the President of the youth forum, Osuro is tasked with ensuring that youth voices are heard in the global political and decision making fora and that they actively participate in matters that affect them.

In her capacity as President, Osoru will steer a board composed of 12 persons from each of the six geo-political groups. The President of the youth forum is elected every two years.

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Exiled Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) renegade Col. Samson Mande’s whereabouts are unknown according to his family, relatives and close friends.

Col. Mande was said to be the commander of People’s Redemption Army (PRA), a shadowy rebel outfit which was allegedly based in the northern part of the border between Uganda and Democratic Republic Congo.

Friends say Mande was last seen in South Africa, while other reports indicate Mande was captured in the neighbouring Tanzania, were Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) commander, Jamil Mukulu was also arrested and handed over to Ugandan security.

Contacted, top security bosses declined to comment on the matter. Col: Mande and with others like a one Robert Kityo Sengooba, were accused of forming a rebel group, the PRADF.

The duo were jailed following the Military Intelligence ‘tip off’ and police Intelligence Unit carried out an operation.

Col. Mande subsequently deserted the UPDF and to Sweden were he declared  war on current regime.

The two, Mande and Sengooba, who is also in Europe, have been appearing in different media outlets, saying that they will return to the country anytime.

Sengooba is a son to the ex-Ugandan envoy at Ugandan mission in Tokyo/Japan and Rome, late John B Kityo  who, it is believed, wasn’t okay about the power sharing deal which they agreed upon in late 1990’s in Stockholm Sweden, that is why Sengooba is reported to be against the Uganda government.

EagleOnline has learnt that Mr Sengooba is in hands of Swiss authorities, where it is believed he secured his political asylum. It should be remembered that Sengooba, while appearing on a political talk show on Radio Equator, was quoted to have called for President, Museven’s overthrow.

Several PRADF alleged agents were subsequently arrested in various parts of the country.

Later on investigations were geared up which resulted into arrest of Sengooba, Kabili, Mugerwa, Capt. Benson Nuwamanya and Col. Edison Muzoora.

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First lady and Minister of Education Janet Kataha Museveni and her fierce critic, Makerere University Researcher Stella Nyanzi,  met last night and resolved their differences.

Impeccable sources told the EagleOnline that Mrs. Museveni reached out to outgoing Makerere University Vice Chancellor Professor Sentamu Ddumba, an uncle to Dr. Stella Nyanzi, who convinced his niece to attend the meeting at State House Entebbe in the wee hours of the morning. President Yoweri Museveni also attended the meeting.

“Yes, it is true they (Janet Museveni and Stella Nyanzi) met; President Museveni was the arbiter and everything was resolved,” a senior presidential aide told this website.

The aide added that Dr. Nyanzi was also given Shs200 million as contribution towards her project of supplying sanitary pads to school-going girls.

It should be recalled that Dr. Nyanzi has previously used vulgar and offensive language to criticize the First Lady over the issue of sanitary pads for adoloscent girls and also for her comments on boda bodas transporting young school-going children.

It also comes at the time when Makerere University appointments board chairman Bruce Balaba had written to Prof.  Ddumba to suspend her. Don’t forget that today is April 1 fool’s day.

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The Appointments Board of Makerere University has asked the Vice Chancellor to suspend controversial academic Dr. Stella Nyanzi.

The letter dated March 3 and signed by the Chairperson of the Appointments Board Bruce Kabaasa, comes in the wake of Dr. Nyanzi’ vociferous social media outbursts against the First Lady and Minister of Education Janet Museveni.

In the letter Mr. Kabaasa cites the various university restrictive measures on the use of social media by the Makerere members of staff, imputing that Dr. Nyanzi has breached them.

‘This communication is therefore, to require you to implement the decision of the Appointments Board referred to above by suspending Dr. Stella Nyanzi from University Service with immediate effect,’ the letter reads in part.

However, contacted the VC said he was unaware of the development but hastened to add that the matter was being handled administratively.

“Those talks to suspend or not to suspend have been going on but who has said that she has been suspended?  We were going to have a meeting to resolve that matter but I can’t talk much” Prof. Ddumba Sentamu told EagleOnline.

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