Lango Web

By LW team, 21 May 2009

Lango NRM supporters during last year's mobilisation.  (Library pictures)

Thousands of NRM party supporters across Lango region are today ecstatic following a decisive victory in the just concluded by-elections. They burst into raptures jubilation shortly after the electoral autho...

By Ronald Odongo in Lira 19 May 2009

Kole MP Ogwang Beridwogo - night campaigner?

The ongoing by-election in Lango sub region has taken a new twist with four legislators of UPC narrowly surviving arrest by police from Lira central police for allegedly holding campaign rallies in the night.

By Bonney Odongo in Lira, 3 May 2009

Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) president, Dr. Kizza Besigye has criticized plans by the Uganda People's Congress for pulling out of inter party cooperation.  

Referring to the recent report by UPC that they would not rally behind any political party in 2011 elections, Besigye said it was an error for them to pu...

By Ronald Odongo in Lira, 3 May 2009

Dr Besigye addressing people in Coronation Park, Lira (Photo: Ronald Odongo)

Hundreds of people in Coronation park Lira town were on Saturday shocked when Forum for Democratic Change party boss declared himself the president of Kampala city...

By LW Correspondents in Lango, 29 April 2009

Dr Kizza Besigye: "I will not accept power-sharing with Museveni" 

FDC leader Dr Kizza Besigye who is currently touring Lango region in northern Uganda has encountered extremely cold and at times hostile reception. His press conference in Lira on Monday was reportedly attended by a hand...

By Ronald Odongo in Lira 26 April 2009

It seems Northern youth legislator Hamson Obua is tired of seeing his people in Moroto constituency dying and suffering during emergencies due to  i...

By Ronald Odongo in Lira 22 April 2009

Heated debates have hit top FM radio stations across Lango regarding the forthcoming visit to the region by Rtd Col Kizza Besigye, leader of Forum for Democratic Change (FDC).  People are wondering what benefits the visit will bring to the region.

The latest report from the FDC camp in Lango indicates that Dr. Kiza Besigye is set to launch a week-long tour of his political mobilization in Lango sub region ahead o...

By Ronald Odongo in Lira, 22 April 2009

Reports from Acholi sub region that the government will soon compensate thousand of war claimants has ignited bitter confrontation between Lango UPC and the NRM leaders.  

Lira UPC Chief Dan Okello (left) raps NRM leaders on compensation

The storm comes a few days after the ...

By Ronald Odongo in Lira, March 23, 2009

It seems Apac woman Mp Betty Amongi Ochwa scrutinized FDC's weaknesses and secrets region by region when she was still in the same faction with Lango independent MPs who lately crossed to FDC officially because without that she...

Mama Miria Obote

The Uganda Peoples Congress (UPC) is once again hit by a crisis due to internal strive as Mama Miria Obote, wife of former President of Uganda Milton Obote, expresses her intention to contest for a parliamentary seat in Apac in 2011.

Faced with the prospect of being voted out of office of UPC party president, the ageing former first lady indicated yest...