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…)

By Julius Odeke Onyango

13^th June 2011:

Tree planting in Bulucheke Sub-County

BUDUDA – The minister of Water and Environment M/s Maria Mutagamaba has said the government of Uganda will soon enforce existing laws to ensure that people grow more trees as a means of conserving environment and boosting the economy.

In a speech read for her by the Director of Environment Mr Gashom Onyango at Bulucheke Sub-County on Monday to commemorate World Environment Day, the minister said, “…Uganda has laws that government agencies are mandated to enforce but the agencies have relaxed to an extent that it now seems as if the country has no binding laws for its people to observe”.

That, according to Water and Environment Minister Maria Mutagamba, is why so many wetlands and national parks have been encroached upon by squatters.  This year’s World Environment Day celebrations were launched under the theme (more…)

By Dennis Otim

13^th June 2011: Dadaab, an umbrella refugee complex comprising of three separate camps of Dagahaley, Hagadera and Ifo in north eastern Kenya, has run out of space, (more…)