By Norman S. Miwambo

13^th June 2011:

L-R: Moses Luzinda & Richard Semitego delivering petition

UK based leaders of Uganda’s top opposition parties have petitioned the British Prime Minister Rt. Hon. David Cameron MP to denounce the ‘brutal’ law enforcement methods that President Yoweri Museveni’s government adopted in its recent attempts to crackdown on the legitimate ‘walk-to-work’ and pro-democracy protests that have rocked the country since April 11^th this year.

Operating under their umbrella organization called (more…)

By Timothy Nsubuga

13^th June 2011:

Dr Besigye is back: Are we going to see more of this?

Forum for Democratic Change [FDC] party President Dr. Kizza Besigye has returned to the country with renewed determination to ‘resuscitate’ the struggle for freedom and democracy in Uganda that was beginning to lose momentum after he left the country two weeks ago.

Dr. Besigye had travelled to the US to get special (more…)

By Sharon Tibenda

13^th June 2011:

Image from the first ISSUE

Uganda Correspondent will this week celebrate its very first birthday since joining the tough, fast, and furious world of news publishing.  It was launched a year ago on the 15^th of June 2010 by young but ambitious Ugandan Journalists at a quiet and low key ceremony.

For the entire year, Uganda Correspondent has operated as an online news publication with only a handful of Journalists.  That notwithstanding, it has built up a respectable readership in its first twelve months.  As a result, (more…)

By Julius Odeke Onyango

13^th June 2011:

Tree planting in Bulucheke Sub-County

BUDUDA – The minister of Water and Environment M/s Maria Mutagamaba has said the government of Uganda will soon enforce existing laws to ensure that people grow more trees as a means of conserving environment and boosting the economy.

In a speech read for her by the Director of Environment Mr Gashom Onyango at Bulucheke Sub-County on Monday to commemorate World Environment Day, the minister said, “…Uganda has laws that government agencies are mandated to enforce but the agencies have relaxed to an extent that it now seems as if the country has no binding laws for its people to observe”.

That, according to Water and Environment Minister Maria Mutagamba, is why so many wetlands and national parks have been encroached upon by squatters.  This year’s World Environment Day celebrations were launched under the theme (more…)

By Dennis Otim

13^th June 2011: Dadaab, an umbrella refugee complex comprising of three separate camps of Dagahaley, Hagadera and Ifo in north eastern Kenya, has run out of space, (more…)

By Timothy Nsubuga

6^th June 2011:

Injured Besigye. Are his men killing Museveni's govt from within?

One of the ruling party’s [NRM’s] rising cadres who has just been appointed Minister of State by President Yoweri Museveni has admitted for the first time, on condition of strict anonymity, that secret agents from the opposition Forum for Democratic Change [FDC] party are working “quietly from within” to lure Museveni’s government into FDC’s traps. (more…)

By Julius Odeke

6^th June 2011:

Museveni with a gun after the Bududa madslides

The Uganda Red Cross Society (URCS) has issued a warning to the government to get ready to handle deadly landslides, mudslides, and flash floods in the Elgon region, saying they might occur at any time.  Speaking to this reporter last Friday, Uganda Red Cross Society’s Regional Programme Manager Mr. Stephen Wamukota said, “…a deadly catastrophe is likely to strike in the Elgon zone anytime”.

Mr. Wamukota added that (more…)

By Sharon Tibenda

6^th June 2011:

Freeman Mbowe: Is he now Tanzania's "Besigye"

The Tanzanian government has arrested the country’s main opposition leader.   Mr. Freeman Mbowe, who is the leader of the opposition Party for Democracy and Development [CHADEMA] was arrested by police over his involvement in a protest earlier this year, the party’s Spokesperson Mabere Marando has said. (more…)

By John Stephen Katende

6^th June 2011:

W2W Activists: Are they being blocked from the internet?

An independent United Nations expert on freedom of expression has warned that governments are increasingly restricting the flow of information on the Internet due to its potential to mobilize people to challenge the status quo.

Frank La Rue, a Special Rapporteur on freedom of expression, told the UN Human Rights Council in (more…)