By Sharon Tibenda

23^rd January 2012:

The government of Uganda is committed to offering effective regulation of the Pensions Sector so as to reap the benefits of a liberalized sector, Finance, Planning and Economic Development Minister Hon. Maria Kiwanuka has said. (more…)

By George Murumba

16^th January 2012:

File Photo: Al Shabab rebels at a parade

Reports coming in from the Kenyan capital Nairobi indicate that the Kenyan police may have arrested up to twenty nine people whom they suspect to be Ugandan nationals trying to sneak into war-torn Somalia to join Al Shabab, the Islamic fundamentalist rebel movement that has been fighting to oust the Transitional Federal Government [TFG] of Somalia.

A reliable source in Nairobi told Uganda Correspondent that (more…)

By Timothy Nsubuga

16^th January 2012:

Hunted: LRA leader Joseph Kony

The United Nations and a number of central African countries that have been badly affected by Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) rebels have agreed to toughen up measures against “…the notorious rebel group to stop its deadly activities on the continent,” a statement released by the UN on 9^th January said.

During a meeting in Kinshasa, (more…)

By Timothy Nsubuga

16^th January 2012:

File photo: Lawyers protest at the High Court

In this second instalment of our three part serialisation of Charles Ochen Okwir’s book Portrait of a Despot, we bring you exerpts from chapter four [See: Despotic Politics & the PRA Treason Case] in which the author discusses how the government’s so-called Black Mambas invaded the High Court for the second time in two years to arrest Peoples Redemption Army [PRA] suspects.  The author says: (more…)