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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 …

By Joan Akello  The Uganda National NGO Forum (UNNGOF) on behalf of Civil Society Organizations is organizing the 2nd Annual Anti-Corruption Convention. The event is today at Hotel Africana from 8:00am to 5:30 pm. Theme this year “U and I Can End Theft Now” is to mobilize the public in …

By Sarah Namulondo Movember Uganda a global prostate cancer awareness and fundraising campaign has finally come to an end. The campaign was aimed at changing the face of men’s health by encouraging men to go for early prostate cancer testing, detection, diagnosis and effective treatment to cure this preventable cancer. …

By Ronald Musoke Norbert Mao, the Democratic Party president has protested last week’s police invasion of the party headquarters at City House in Kampala which also involved the arbitrary arrest of members of the Uganda Young Democrats, the party’s youth wing. In a letter dated Nov. 28 sent to the …

By Sarah Namulondo Germany has finally followed suit in suspending it’s proposed on budget support to Uganda after several withdrawals from donor countries under the Joint Budget Support Framework (JBSF). The German Government, as other development partners was appalled by the level of the recent mishandling of development partners’ funds …

By Julius Businge The junior minister for information and communication technologies, Nyombi Thembo has urged the mobile phone suppliers/companies to find a way of disciplining those companies that forge their genuine products and sell them to consumers. Thembo was speaking as the chief guest at a dinner organised by Samsung …

By Julius Businge A recent report released by the World Bank, IFC, and PwC finds that governments continue to reform their tax systems despite global economic uncertainty, with 31 economies having taken steps from June last year through May 2012 to make it easier and cost less for small and …

By Joan Akello Safe Male Circumcision (SMC) policy was launched in September 2010 to reduce the risk of HIV infection in men by 60 percent. However, advocates say women and leaders have stalled its success. Marion Natukunda an advocate at the AIDS Information centre HIV prevention Research   says much as …

By Julius Odeke President Yoweri Museveni is in Nairobi, Kenya on a 2-day visit during which he will attend the second retreat of the East African Community Heads of State on infrastructure development and financing. He will also attend the 14th Summit of the Heads of State of the East …