Archive for 2011

Justice Sebutinde bags top job at world court

By Timothy Nsubuga

13th Dec 2011:

High flyer: Justice Sebutinde

The General Assembly and the Security Council today elected a Ugandan jurist to fill the final vacancy on the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the principal judicial organ of the United Nations.

Justice Julia Sebutinde obtained an absolute majority in both the Assembly and the Council, a requirement for (more…)


UPDF Generals linked to anti-Umeme protests

By Sharon Tibenda

12th Dec 2011:

Army Chief: Are his Generals guilty?

The recent protests by business owners and traders along Kampala’s Nasser road against Umeme’s persistent load-shedding was caused in part by the chronic failure of powerful army General who own commercial properties there to pay their electricity bills, Uganda Correspondent can exclusively reveal.

According to our source, a top Umeme official who spoke to this reporter on (more…)


City tycoon dodges Umeme bills for 10years

By George Murumba

12th 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…)


Finance ministry official tired of his own theft

By Timothy Nsubuga

12th 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…)


Analysis: Uganda is a brutal reality obscured

By Thor Halvorssen

12th 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…)


Visa joins hands with MTN Mobile money

By Sharon Tibenda

12th 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…)


US rules out combat operations against LRA

By Dennis Otim

12th 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…)


We shall hand over power on our own terms

By Adam Kazoora

12th Dec 2011: I will not respond to all the crazy comments about my (more…)


Kagame-Museveni: Who is the worst killer?

By Abbey K. Semuwemba

12th Dec 2011: It was sad to learn of the murder of (more…)


Anti-Kabila Diaspora deserve a thumbs up

By M. Suleman

12th Dec 2011: A handpicked Electoral Commission.  A weak judiciary, (more…)


2013/3/24

I will throw a hot stone behind CJ Odoki’s back
By John Baptist Oloka 25th March 2013:

The media broke news of More... (0)


2013/2/26

The late Mzee Kaguta was a naughty boy
By Lawrence Kasozi

25th February 2013: This is totally out of More... (0)


2013/2/26

Museveni is pathological hypocrite
By Norman Miwambo

25th February 2013: I don’t believe Museveni was More... (0)


2013/2/17

Obote is crying for his beloved country
By M. Suleman

18th February 2013: Uganda’s late president Dr Apollo More... (0)


2013/2/3

Wake up fools: Army took over long ago
By Bernard Ddumba

4th Feb 2013: Over the last two weeks, I seriously More... (0)


2013/2/3

NRM revolution is eating its own children
By Charles Businge

4th February 2013: In 1986, the new leadership promised More... (0)


2013/1/27

It’s lawful to resist coup plotters – let’s do it
By Elijah M. Tumwebaze

28th January 2013: In a powerful opinion article that More... (0)


2013/1/27

Our parliament only exists on paper
By M. Suleman

28th January 2013: Uganda is a country endowed with More... (0)


2013/1/22

Museveni is right to call NRM MPs idiots
By M. Suleman

21st Jan 2013: In the drama that followed More... (0)


2012/12/18

Isn’t Museveni a deranged psychopath?
By M. Suleman

17th Dec 2012: An emotional, grief-stricken, and More... (0)


 

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