By Independent Team Statistics show there is no money to be made there A boat carrying as many as 500 immigrants that sunk off the Italian Island of Lampedusa has sparked debate on why Africans appear determined to make such a foolhardy journey to get to Europe. At least 300 …
Read More »Oil refinery threatened
By Haggai Matsiko World Bank sucked into wrangle over compensation budget of Shs74 bn Battle lines have been drawn between the government on one hand and activists and locals over the compensation and resettlement of residents to be evicted to create space for oil refinery infrastructure in Hoima, western Uganda. …
Read More »Questions over Karuma dam
By Agather Atuhaire & Joan Akella US$ 2 billion project starts with no signed contract? Will electricity finally get cheaper when the 600MW Karuma Hydropower Dam is completed sometime in 2018?Possibly not. But a lot depends on outcome of a meeting that took place in China on Sept.27 between a …
Read More »What next after Museveni warns Belgium on DR Congo?
By Haggai Matsiko Kabila’s European allies have eyes on country’s mineral wealth The Kampala talks between the DR Congo government and the M23 rebel group might collapse if Kinshasa’s new internationally-powered attitude and that of her backers does not change. Collapse of talks in Kampala, many observers fear, will spark …
Read More »Teacher’s strike
By Stephen Kafeero Should government fear nurses, police, army? When Maj. Jessica Alupo, who is the minister of Education and Sports, famously failed to say which team the Uganda football team faced when it travelled the Moroccan city of Marrakesh as part of its 2014 Football World Cup qualification campaign, …
Read More »Kenyan attackers linked to Kampala
By Haggai Matsiko Security introduces new tactics after Nairobi attack Ahmed Abdi Godane, the man believed to be the mastermind of the July 2010 Kampala bombing has been linked to the Sept.21 attack on a popular shopping mall in Kenya. The Kenyan attack is said to bear the radicalised fingerprint …
Read More »Museveni shocked at Kyangwali eviction
By Haggai Matsiko Security operatives displaced over 60,000 people to allegedly expand barracks and refugee camp Two crisis meetings involving President Yoweri Museveni and Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi have resolved to resettle, supply relief food and compensate over 60,000 that were forcefully evicted near Kyangwali Resettlement Camp, following an expose …
Read More »Who’s winning TV fight?
By Joan Akello NTV’s tight turf tussle has turned lenses on some unusual strategies When new NTV Uganda Managing Director Aggie Konde Asiimwe took over in February she told staff: “I am happy to join the leading TV brand in the country that has come through the years. “I am …
Read More »UPDF general takes on Museveni
By Haggai Matsiko Gen. Biraaro joins renegades Sejusa, Besigye President Yoweri Museveni might face two retired generals in the 2016 presidential elections if word on the street proves correct. Apart from retired Maj. Gen. Mugisha Muntu who is set to contest on the ticket of the biggest opposition party, the …
Read More »Sugar factory owners fuel land grabbing
By Haggai Matsiko International body wants consumers to petition Coke, Pepsi A new report by Oxfam International has lifted the lid on how the ever spiralling demand for sugar and the overwhelming rush for land to grow it, is fuelling land grabbing. Oxfam’s new report, Sugar Rush: Land rights and …
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