By Norman Miwambo

20^th June 2011:

Nandala: Accused fellow opposition leaders

The tough talking and no-nonsense new Leader of the Opposition in the 9^th parliament Hon. Nandala Mafabi has launched an attack on some ‘opposition leaders’ who he said put on different cloths during the day and change into other clothes at night in order to sneak into State House to see President Museveni.

Hon. Nandala, who is also credited with making the Public Accounts Committee of the (more…)

By Timothy Nsubuga

20^th June 2011:

L-R: Okwir, Besigye, and Akaki after their meeting

Reports from reliable sources have confirmed to Uganda Correspondent that Forum for Democratic Change [FDC] President Dr. Kizza Besigye, who was en-route to Entebbe from the US, briefly stopped over in London for a few hours on Saturday 11^th June to meet his London based aides to plot a “diplomatic offensive” against Museveni’s regime in the whole of Europe.

The FDC leader is reported to have met and discussed detailed diplomatic strategies with FDC’s (more…)

By John Stephen Katende

20^th June 2011:

Protester shot dead by security operatives on 29th April

President Yoweri Museveni should ensure that there is an independent and transparent investigation into the killings which occurred during the ‘walk-to-work’ protests and thereafter hold security forces accountable, a coalition of 105 human rights organisations demanded in a June 15^th letter to the President.

The coalition, which included civil society groups from every corner of Uganda, (more…)

By Norman Miwambo

20^th June 2011:

Kamya, Lukyamuzi at London federo conference

Uganda Federal Alliance [UFA] party President Beti Kamya and Hon. Ken Lukyamuzi, the Conservative Party [CP] President, clashed at a Federalism a.k.a “Federo” conference in London over Beti Kamya’s constant insistence that President Museveni is not Uganda’s problem.

During the Federo conference which took place at (more…)

By Julius Odeke

20^th June 2011:

Mbale street kids pose for a picture. Photo By Julius Odeke

MBALE- They ignorantly cheer at the camera while playing various games at the Child Rehabilitation Outreach Centre in Mbale.  Little do they know, however, that the authorities are in a meeting busy discussing ways of sending them back to their villages.

There are over one thousand street kids in Mbale who could be returned to their homes.  In an interview with this reporter, the local police Superintendent Mr. Jacob Opolot said members of the public had filed several complaints against the street children. (more…)

By Our Online Team

20^th June 2011: The British government is putting pressure on the Kenyan government to refund all the aid money Britain gave Kenya to support Universal Primary Education [UPE] amid concerns that (more…)

By Timothy Nsubuga

13^th June 2011:

Museveni: Acused of using poverty cash to buy private jet

Lord Ashcroft, a top House of Lords peer from British Prime Minister David Cameron’s Conservative Party, has allegedly accused President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni of misusing a whopping £30million [approx 117billion shillings] worth of British poverty eradication or development aid money to Uganda to buy himself a Gulf Stream presidential jet. (more…)

By Norman S. Miwambo

13^th June 2011:

L-R: Moses Luzinda & Richard Semitego delivering petition

UK based leaders of Uganda’s top opposition parties have petitioned the British Prime Minister Rt. Hon. David Cameron MP to denounce the ‘brutal’ law enforcement methods that President Yoweri Museveni’s government adopted in its recent attempts to crackdown on the legitimate ‘walk-to-work’ and pro-democracy protests that have rocked the country since April 11^th this year.

Operating under their umbrella organization called (more…)

By Timothy Nsubuga

13^th June 2011:

Dr Besigye is back: Are we going to see more of this?

Forum for Democratic Change [FDC] party President Dr. Kizza Besigye has returned to the country with renewed determination to ‘resuscitate’ the struggle for freedom and democracy in Uganda that was beginning to lose momentum after he left the country two weeks ago.

Dr. Besigye had travelled to the US to get special (more…)

By Sharon Tibenda

13^th June 2011:

Image from the first ISSUE

Uganda Correspondent will this week celebrate its very first birthday since joining the tough, fast, and furious world of news publishing.  It was launched a year ago on the 15^th of June 2010 by young but ambitious Ugandan Journalists at a quiet and low key ceremony.

For the entire year, Uganda Correspondent has operated as an online news publication with only a handful of Journalists.  That notwithstanding, it has built up a respectable readership in its first twelve months.  As a result, (more…)