April 30, 2011

  • Political problems

    Please be in prayer for Uganda.  Yesterday, some riots broke out in Kampala.  There were a couple of people killed and over a hundred injured.  Over three hundred were arrested.

    We knew about the elections in February.  As we understood it, it had gone pretty well.  However, they think now that there may have been some corruption in the vote counting.  The president was re-elected.  His biggest opponent is now leading a "walk to work" protest for the nasty inflation that everyone has incurred.  Inflation has gone up over 14%!!  I guess the major opponent was approached in his vehicle on Thursday by the police.  The situation got heated, his car window was broken and the police sprayed tear gas in his face and arrested him.  His followers have since raised the level of protesting since.

    Thankfully, we are far enough away to not be involved.  We had to find out via the internet that all this was happening.  The only thing that prompted our concern was that there was some police down on the main road warning vehicles of the problems.  Of course we had no idea what they were saying so we had to look on the internet.

    For those of you who are going to read this and over react... we are doing our diligence.  We are checking with the embassy to follow what they advise.  Currently, there is little concern.  These protests have been going on for some time.  They have been in different cities and far from here.  So hopefully it will go away or at least stay in those locations far from here.

    So again, pray for stability.  We have little need to go to Kampala so until we are pretty well certain of the safety, we will refrain from going there.