By George Murumba

12^th Dec 2011:

Sample: High security mansions in Kampala

One of Uganda’s wealthiest and most flamboyant tycoons who is said to have “very good connections” to the ruling National Resistance Movement [NRM] government has not paid a single Shilling to his electricity supplier Umeme in nearly ten years, Uganda Correspondent can exclusively reveal.

According to our source, a top Umeme official who spoke to this reporter on strict condition of anonymity, the city tycoon who has now been nicknamed “Carlos” in some (more…)

By Timothy Nsubuga

12^th Dec 2011:

Finance Minister: Grand theft under her nose

A young official in the Ministry of Finance has dramatically confessed that he is fed up of stealing public funds to enrich himself while ordinary Ugandans who are supposed to be the true beneficiaries of government funds die daily in poorly facilitated government hospitals and roads.

The Finance ministry official was overheard by this reporter making this “very un-Ugandan” confession on Friday night at the Cayenne Club dominated by foreigners in (more…)

By Thor Halvorssen

12^th Dec 2011: General Yoweri Museveni has ruled Uganda for more than 25 years. Since taking power in a 1986 military coup, he has stacked this Central African country’s voting commission with his henchmen and stolen (more…)

By Sharon Tibenda

12^th Dec 2011: The world’s biggest payments network Visa has joined Africa’s fast growing Mobile Money transfer business with a ground breaking announcement that it will be working with MTN to create (more…)

By Dennis Otim

12^th Dec 2011: The US State Department’s chief Africa diplomat has said U.S. troops sent to Uganda to help local forces fight the Lord’s Resistance Army [LRA] rebel group will not engage in (more…)

By George Murumba

5^th Dec 2011:

Under threat: Museveni's home in Rwakitura

An angry member of parliament’s Public Accounts Committee [PAC] that is currently probing the irregular payment of billions of Shillings to NRM linked businessmen Hassan Bassajjabalaba and Col. John Mugyenyi has said a future government should, among others things, sell off President Museveni’s country home in Rwakitura to recover the losses he caused Uganda.

Speaking to (more…)

By John Stephen Katende

5^th Dec 2011:

File photo: UJCC leaders

Uganda’s top most religious leaders have unanimously rejected the government’s new Public Order Management Bill 2011 that seeks to impose further restrictions on the enjoyment of fundamental human rights and freedoms.

The religious leaders, who appeared before parliament’s Committee on Legal & Parliamentary Affairs under their umbrella organisation of Uganda Joint Christian Council [UJCC], called on (more…)

By Sharon Tibenda

5^th Dec 2011:

File photo: Anti riot police at work

National electricity distributor Umeme has surrendered control of its regional offices in Masaka following protests by local traders and opposition activists last Friday who were unhappy with the never ending load-shedding that is costing businesses across the country billions of Shillings per day.

Masaka FDC Youth Leader Meddie Lutaya and the former Masaka Municipality (more…)

By Dennis Otim

28^th Nov 2011:

Fire and suffering in the Northern IDP camps

President Yoweri Museveni has for the first time urged the people of the war torn Acholi sub-region in Northern Uganda to forget the 20 year suffering they endured because of the Lord’s Resistance Army [LRA] rebel insurgency because the government is doing everything in its powers to conclusively heal their wounds.

The President’s message was delivered by the Minister for the Presidency Ms Kabakumba Matsiko during celebrations held (more…)