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…)

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…)