By John Stephen Katende

9^th Jan 2012:

Accused: Former CMI Chief Brig. James Mugira

The government’s main intelligence agencies, namely, the Internal Security Organisation [ISO] and the Chieftaincy of Military Intelligence [CMI] have been accused of recruiting teenagers from secondary schools in and around Kampala to serve as informers for “specific missions”, Uganda Correspondent can exclusively reveal.

In a month-long investigation conducted by this newspaper in Kampala schools following a tip off from (more…)

By Timothy Nsubuga

9^th January 2012:

Walk-to-work opposition activists facing treason

In this first part of our three part serialisation of Charles Ochen Okwir’s book Portrait of a Despot, we bring you a slightly edited exerpt from Chapter Three of the book [See: A Modern Despot’s Alfa Tool of Oppression] in which the author discusses how “modern despots” like President Yoweri Museveni use the law as a tool of political oppression.  The author says:

The use of law, the most unlikely (more…)

By George Murumba

9^th Jan 2012:

St Mary's Kitende logo

St Mary’s College Kitende has been variously accused of fraudulently fiddling with their students’ University admission application forms in order to get a huge number of it’s “A” Level students admitted for University courses under the much sought after government sponsorship programme.

According to the allegation made by our source, a parent whose son sat for Uganda Advanced Certificate of Education [UACE] in the last academic year, Kitende college authorities only allowed their “A” Level students to (more…)

By Andrew Green

9^th Jan 2012: Like most Ugandan towns, Gulu’s storefronts double as its billboards. All that the town has to offer is painted in attention-grabbing sans-serif fonts. Lists of goods and services crowd windows and doorframes, promising everything from (more…)

By Sharon Tibenda

9^th Jan 2012: The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees [UNHCR], which is the UN’s main and the world’s biggest refugee agency announced on 6^th January 2012 that it had concluded all its relief work with (more…)