By George Murumba

29^th Aug 2011:

Corruption: Is he doing enough?

The complete lack of ‘political will’ from the top echelons of President Museveni’s government in Uganda is one of the biggest factors “…undermining anti-corruption progress in Uganda”, the latest US diplomatic cables released by the whistleblower website Wikileaks have revealed.

In an email dated April 8^th 2009, an official of the US embassy in Kampala told the US State Department in Washington that whereas a joint review of Uganda’s Millenium Challenge Corporation Anti-Corruption Threshold Program (MCC ACT Program) found the program to be largely on track, “…there has not been (more…)

By George Murumba

22^nd Aug 2011:

The end of an era: Col Gaddafi is gone

Anti-Gaddafi National Transitional Council [NTC] rebels, who launched a campaign to topple Libyan leader Col. Muammar Gaddafi six months ago, have finally triumphed and marched into the “Green Square” located at the centre of the capital Tripoli.  The NTC immediately announced that they will re-name the square “Martyrs Square”.

The anti-Gaddafi rebels launched multiple land and sea attacks in the last 24hours, an effort that (more…)

By Timothy Nsubuga

22^nd Aug 2011:

Mabira Forest: Controversial piece of real estate

President Yoweri Museveni’s latest proposal to give away 7,100 hectares of supposedly “degraded” parts of Mabira forest to Sugar Corporation of Uganda Limited [SCOUL], a sugar producing company based in Lugazi, could earn the “loss” making sugar corporation approximately $1billion from one off timber sales, an analyst has said.

The revelation, re-produced verbatim here below, was made by (more…)

By Norman Miwambo

22^nd Aug 2011:

A London-based Ugandan woman, who was astonishingly among the “ten most wanted” people in the United Kingdom who were being hunted down by police in connection with a (more…)

By Norman Miwambo

22^nd Aug 2011: The former Member of Parliament [MP] for Chua County Mr. John Livingstone Okello Okello, who was also the Chairman of the Acholi Parliamentary Group [APG] in the 8^th parliament, has (more…)

By Sharon Tibenda

22^nd Aug 2011: In what appears to be a tragic case of jumping from the proverbial “frying pun to the fire”, many eastern Uganda districts are now experiencing unusually heavy flood-causing rains (more…)