By Online Team
25th June 2012:
Offshore investors who have departed Uganda’s debt market because of falling yields and fears about the currency’s strength have another reason to stay away: an increase in (more…)
Govt lifts unofficial ban on gay meetings
By George Murumba
25th June 2012:
Responding to growing international criticism of its anti-gay efforts, the government of Uganda said in a statement on Friday last week that it does not discriminate against people “of a different sexual orientation.” (more…)
Museveni removal must be top priority – analyst
By Lucy Hovil
18th June 2012:
Museveni: Should his removal be top priority?
The momentous occasion of the ICC’s first verdict against the Congolese militia leader, Thomas Lubanga, has attracted considerable amounts of discussion and a fair amount of self-congratulation within the international justice community. And why not!
After all, it symbolises the coming of age of an international court that has become the centrepiece for promoting international criminal justice in some of the world’s most (more…)
NSSF MD exposes secret govt dealings
By Sharon Tibenda
18th June 2012:
The National Social Security Fund (NSSF) has, in a dramatic twist, revealed that it already lends funds to the government. The news comes in the wake of President Museveni’s revelation in the State of the Nation address, in which he (more…)
LRA victims angry over compensation delay
By IRIN News Agency
18th June 2012:
Jennifer Abalo struggles to support two of her own and two of her late sister’s children. She lost her father, sister and two of her children to Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) violence between 1998 and 2004, but like (more…)
Somalia: Foreign bombs will never bring peace
By Shefali
18th June 2012:
It’s difficult to get positive results in Somalia until reconciliation starts right at the bottom, where neighbours in a village reconcile, then neighbours in a city, then neighbours in a state, then finally, neighbours at (more…)
UK ‘unfairly’ rejects African visa applications
By Online Team
18th June 2012:
Britain’s UK Border Agency [UKBA] staff whose job it is to process visa applications from Africa are “acting unfairly” and wrongly refusing applicants entry to the UK, the BBC has reported. (more…)
Zuma urged to stop arms sales to Uganda
By Timothy Nsubuga
11th June 2012:
L-R: Zuma and Museveni shake hands
A group of Ugandans living in South Africa have petitioned their host country’s President Jacob Zuma, urging him to, among many other things, end South Africa’s arms exports to Uganda.
In the memorandum dated June 8, 2012, which Uganda Correspondent has seen, the signatories William Kyazze and Timothy Mugerwa, who represent an (more…)
Mao attack on Nandala back-fires badly
By George Murumba
11th June 2012:
Mao whispers to Museveni: FILE PHOTO
Democratic Party [DP] President Norbert Mao is facing severe criticism from a cross section of Ugandans on facebook who appear to have been deeply offended by his “below the belt” attempt to portray the Leader of the Opposition in Parliament Rt Hon. Nandala Mafabi as a violent and erratic leader.
The DP president, whose political relation with FDC’s Nandala Mafabi hit an all (more…)
Analysis: EALA exposed Museveni’s rotten politics
By M. Suleman
11th June 2012:
The drama of the East African Legislative Assembly [EALA] elections which started in Kampala ended with humiliation for the NRM in Arusha. Having outsmarted (more…)
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