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By Sarah Namulondo Uganda has regained its 2009 position of the 130th most corrupt country in the world. According to Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index 2012, Uganda scored the same as Ivory Coast and Nicaragua in the corruption perceptions index. This is a great leap by 13 from last year’s …

Parliament, Uganda | Joan Akello| Some Members of parliament (MPs) have criticized the speaker Rebecca Kadaga for failing to control the house after members turned rowdy on the 27th of November. They also fault her over suspending parliamentary sessions. The MPs said that there was no reason for the suspension …

By Julius Businge The central bank of Uganda has marginally reduced the central bank rate to 12% in December down from 12.5% in November, in a bid to boost economic growth. The country’s economy grew at 3.2% in the year 2010/2011 down from 6.7% in 2009/2010, partly because of the …

By Ronald Musoke Police in Masaka Municipality has halted the Uganda Young Democrats (UYD) ‘celebrations’ of President Museveni’s ‘75th birthday’ which they say falls on Dec. 4. Reports from Masaka say by 6:00AM Police had cordoned off the Mayor’s Gardens and all adjacent streets as they anticipated the youth to …

By Sarah Namulondo A total of 10 countries in the Great Lakes Region including (Angola, Congo Brazzaville, South Sudan, Rwanda, Tanzania, Kenya, Zambia, Uganda and Burundi) have resolved to form a joint force of 4,000 troops to contain the insurgency in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), said Defence …

By Ronald Musoke Dr. John Mango, the Dean School of Physical Sciences in the College of Natural Sciences (CoNAS) at Makerere University, Uganda’s oldest university, has been elected to serve on the executive of the prestigious Southern Africa Mathematical Sciences Association (SAMSA) for a two year renewable term. Mango becomes …

By Sarah Namulondo A grant of $51m (sh137b) meant to support the distribution of mosquito nets in Uganda has been mismanaged, according to the Global Fund. The grant from the Geneva-based donors to fight AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis provided the funds for the procurement and distribution of over seven million …

By Ronald Musoke The Eritrean national soccer team comprising 18 players that has been in Kampala participating in the ongoing CECAFA Tusker Challenge Cup has reportedly disappeared. The team whose moniker is the Red Sea Boys was eliminated at the group stages on Friday, Nov. 31 after their final match …

By Joan Akello Since the first Anti-Corruption Convention in 2011, the Ugandan National Non Government Organisation Forum (UNNGOF) and other activists against corruption said Uganda has lost not less than 1.3 trillion shillings to corruption. They cited deplorable health services across the country, ill facilitated educational infrastructure, spiraling poverty levels, …

By Ronald Musoke Although Uganda is yet to pump her first oil, the Uganda Revenue Authority, just like other government agencies with a role to play in the country’s fledgling oil and gas sector has created a unit to handle oil revenues. While speaking at the hastily organized national dialogue …