Land marks of November: When Karimojong fled to Kenya

KAZINI       CONSTITUTION      UGANDA AIRLINES CRASH    RETRENCHMENT

1988 1st November 1988 Constitution debate opens: The debate on the Uganda Constitutional Commission Bill, 1988 by the National Resistance Council (NRC) opened in Kampala. The bill was tabled before the NRC in early October by the than Minister of Constitutional Affairs, Sam Njuba. It sought to establish a commission that would draft a national constitution. 

2nd November 1988 Crash survivor speaks out: One of the survivors of the Uganda Airlines crash at Rome airport returned home. John Barigye, who had been undergoing treatment at a Rome hospital reached home to a tumultuous welcome from his family members, relatives, and friends. 

7th November 1988 6700 refugees return: A huge convoy of 93 lorries carrying 6700 Uganda refugees from Sudan crossed into Uganda after a two and half-day grueling journey from Yei to Kaya. This was the final big batch of Ugandan refugees who fled to the Sudan and Zaire in 1979 to return home.   

18th November 1988 1988 Bika tourney better organized: The 1988 Bika Football Association (BFA) tournament drew to a near close. But there was one thing to note about that year's edition, it had been far better organized than the year before although the turn-up of clan supporters was below expectation. 

22nd November 1988

City evictions alarm traders: A wave of evictions hit Kampala city as the returning Asians attempted to repossess there abandoned properties. The Asians were allegedly working hand in hand with some Ugandan lawyers and using the good offices of the High Court in the evictions. 

27th November 1988 Civil service layoffs start: Government set up a Public Service Review and Reorganization Commission to trim the public service. The trimming down exercise ‘would begin as soon as the necessary consultations and preparations had been made and the persons concerned were made aware" according to the than Minister of Public Service and Cabinet Affairs, Tom Rubaare, in an exclusive interview with the New Vision.   

1999 8th November 1999 Bujagali dam finally approved: Parliament finally approved the proposed AES Nile Power US$430m hydropower project at Bujagali falls. The approval was given a day before when the House passed a resolution authorizing the government to guarantee Uganda Electricity Board's obligations and the World Bank partial risk guarantee under the Power Purchase Agreement with AES. 

24th November 1999 Kikonyogo closes Trust Bank: Bank of Uganda closed Trust Bank again, this time for good, shutting out 700 depositors and locking in recorded deposits of sh5.3b. BoU Governor Charles Nyonyintono Kikonyogo told the press at the BoU headquarters that the bank was closed for insolvency and operating contrary to the provisions of the Financial Institutions Statute 1993.

30th November 1999 E. Africa signs a treaty today; the First step to political federalism; Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania signed the East African Cooperation treaty which was meant to pave way for a political federation.         

2001 23rd November 2001 Museveni meets Turkana herdsman: Turkana pastoralists who had been grazing there cattle in Matheniko County, Moroto district withdrew there animals to the Kenyan side of the border for fear of being caught in the disarmament programme.

The assistant RDC reported that the move followed President Museveni's visit to the area. The president was in Karamoja for 5 days and he was there to inform the Karamojong of the government's intention to take away illegal guns. 

26th November 2001 US Marines surround bin Laden: Waves of Heli ported US Marines targeting the Taliban heartland of Kandahar overran a southern Afghanistan airfield in the biggest US ground operation of the than seven-week-old campaign to punish perpetrators of the terror attacks on New York and Washington. 

28th November 2001 Kazini took timber: Army Commander Maj. Gen. James Kazini, regional cooperation state minister Col. Kahinda Otafire, and Kazini's former aide-de-camp, Major Muhindo Mawa were implicated in illegal timber trade from the war-torn DR Congo. Fort Portal based timber trader Boniface Kakare told the Justice David Portal Commission that the UPDF soldiers connived with Congolese traders to rob his timber.