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NORTHERN UGANDA MESSENGER POST: Hillary Clinton: Grecian Medea Resurrected?

What are Hillary Clinton's Goals? I have tried to resist commenting on the American Democratic Presidential Primary between Hillary Clinton and Barrack Obama. Alas, I could not sit on my hands any longer. Until after the Potomac Primaries and Wisconsin, things had seemed pretty civil. But suddenly, post-Super Tuesday 5, February 2008 wins by Barrack Obama, pinned Hiillary to the ropes and created an air of invevitability around Obama and his run for the Democratic nomination. If hope was seen winning for Obama but waning for Clinton, those who had counted her down and out, spoke too soon, and perhaps had never read Euripides, and could not have known the depths a woman scorned could tenaciously dig her claws into an opponent to exact revenge! Perhaps, if you were Hilary Clinton, you might have done the same; fight as if your life depended on each blow landed. And indeed, her life, the political one that is, depended on it; although it is difficult to tell if the biological, physica...

NORTHERN UGANDA MESSENGER POST: Is Achana Acholi Monarch or Presidential Assistant?

Recently, David Onen Achana II, who is often inaccurately referred to by the media and ignoramouses as "Acholi Paramount Chief", waded into controversy by seeming to oposed positions of Acholi parliamentarians on large land acquisitions for so-called investors. Local people and their political and traditional leaders had made it clear that, any large-scale agro-investments that take away considerable acreages of land from the local population, could not be considered or approved at the moment until all the foricibly displaced and confined people in the concentration camps of northern Uganda have been resettled to their original homesteads and land. Only after an assessment of their needs and the carrying capacity of Acholiland have been established, could any intelligent planning and particular land uses be approved, beyong that necessary for basic needs, self-reliance, food self-sufficiency and food security. Unfortunately, David Onen Achana II, the chairperson of Acholi Cou...