By Sharon Tibenda

17^th Oct 2011:

File Photo: Besigye being arrested during first W2W

A combined force of police and military officers last evening changed tactics and decided to pre-emptively arrest key leaders of Activists for Change [A4C] ahead of today’s launch of the second phase of the ‘walk-to-work’ protest campaign against the NRM government’s failure to arrest runaway household commodity and fuel prices.

The arrests took place within hours of (more…)

By Timothy Nsubuga

17^th Oct 2011:

Mbabazi: Is he behind the NRM power struggle?

The ongoing oil corruption scandal involving three top cabinet Ministers that appears to be consuming the ruling NRM government is less about fighting corruption but about an internal NRM power struggle that President Museveni himself had bottled-up for nearly a quarter of a century, top NRM ideologues have said.

The Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi, Foreign Affairs Minister Sam Kutesa, and (more…)

By Sharon Tibenda

17^th Oct 2011:

Warned by A4C! Police Chief Kale Kayihura

Activists for Change [A4C], the political pressure group behind the famous ‘walk-to-work’ protest campaign that rocked the country early this year, has warned the Uganda Police Force against using excessive and unlawful force that could disrupt the national ‘O’ level exams that kick off today. (more…)

By Dennis Otim

17^th Oct 2011: United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called on the international community to give rural women the same access to productive resources as men as a means of (more…)

By Our Online Team

10^th Oct 2011:

Audi Q7: Are such cars funding Kla drug deals?

A long and meticulous investigation conducted by Journalist Jonathan Green for British newspaper The Mail Online has revealed that high value top of the range four wheel drive vehicles are being “stolen on order” from Britain for Kampala’s top drug dealers, the rich, and the famous.  In his report, Journalist Jonathan Green says:

“…At 4.30pm on a (more…)

By George Murumba

10^th Oct 2011:

Who is the NRM Super Minister?

Information reaching Uganda Correspondent indicates that one of the most powerful men in President Yoweri Museveni’s government was behind recent attempts by some Members of Parliament to censure the Speaker of Parliament Rebecca Kadaga.

Kadaga had been threatened with censure over her refusal to recall Parliament to discuss the controversial and secretive oil Production Sharing Agreements between (more…)

By George Murumba

10^th Oct 2011:

UFA Boss Kamya: Eyes fixed on 2016 elections

Less than a year after the last general elections were concluded, Uganda Federal Alliance [UFA] Party President Ms Beti Namisango Kamya has launched an early campaign to raise funds to finance UFA’s mass mobilisation and recruitment activities ahead of the next general elections scheduled for 2016.

In an email dated 7^th October which Uganda Correspondent has seen, (more…)