By Timothy Nsubuga

13^th Dec 2011:

High flyer: Justice Sebutinde

The General Assembly and the Security Council today elected a Ugandan jurist to fill the final vacancy on the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the principal judicial organ of the United Nations.

Justice Julia Sebutinde obtained an absolute majority in both the Assembly and the Council, a requirement for (more…)

By Sharon Tibenda

12^th Dec 2011:

Army Chief: Are his Generals guilty?

The recent protests by business owners and traders along Kampala’s Nasser road against Umeme’s persistent load-shedding was caused in part by the chronic failure of powerful army General who own commercial properties there to pay their electricity bills, Uganda Correspondent can exclusively reveal.

According to our source, a top Umeme official who spoke to this reporter on (more…)

By George Murumba

12^th Dec 2011:

Sample: High security mansions in Kampala

One of Uganda’s wealthiest and most flamboyant tycoons who is said to have “very good connections” to the ruling National Resistance Movement [NRM] government has not paid a single Shilling to his electricity supplier Umeme in nearly ten years, Uganda Correspondent can exclusively reveal.

According to our source, a top Umeme official who spoke to this reporter on strict condition of anonymity, the city tycoon who has now been nicknamed “Carlos” in some (more…)

By Timothy Nsubuga

12^th Dec 2011:

Finance Minister: Grand theft under her nose

A young official in the Ministry of Finance has dramatically confessed that he is fed up of stealing public funds to enrich himself while ordinary Ugandans who are supposed to be the true beneficiaries of government funds die daily in poorly facilitated government hospitals and roads.

The Finance ministry official was overheard by this reporter making this “very un-Ugandan” confession on Friday night at the Cayenne Club dominated by foreigners in (more…)

By Thor Halvorssen

12^th Dec 2011: General Yoweri Museveni has ruled Uganda for more than 25 years. Since taking power in a 1986 military coup, he has stacked this Central African country’s voting commission with his henchmen and stolen (more…)

By Sharon Tibenda

12^th Dec 2011: The world’s biggest payments network Visa has joined Africa’s fast growing Mobile Money transfer business with a ground breaking announcement that it will be working with MTN to create (more…)

By Dennis Otim

12^th Dec 2011: The US State Department’s chief Africa diplomat has said U.S. troops sent to Uganda to help local forces fight the Lord’s Resistance Army [LRA] rebel group will not engage in (more…)