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By Eriasa Mukiibi Sserunjogi Lukwago, Musisi, Land Board fight to control prime city plots Immediately the now indicted George Agaba took office at Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA), he raised uproar with directives he made about the management of the city’s public land. As acting Director for Physical Planning, Agaba …

By Mubatsi Asinja Habati Museveni aide blocks donor project, wants Shs 1bn, State House cited in major land scams A land dispute between President Yoweri Museveni’s Press Secretary Tamale Mirundi and the Nakawa Vocational Training Institute (NVTI) is standing in the way of a US$4.5 million (Shs 9 billion) project. …

By Tracy Gwambe But new policy on compulsory computer classes for HSC students tests school resources Up a dusty road in Kawempe Division of Kampala district lies Kawempe Royal College; a mixed day and boarding school behind a small blue gate. One of the teachers here, Shamira Naluyingi, is feeling …

By Haggai Matsiko When Museveni wears Beijing’s big boots On Feb. 21, the China National Offshore Oil Company (CNOOC), acquired a third of Uganda’s newly discovered but potentially huge oil reserves in a US$ 2.9 million farm-down deal with the British firm, Tullow Oil and France’s Total. Nothing official yet, …

By Eriasa Mukiibi Sserunjogi Ssemogerere offers advice but party’s troubles are bigger than just removing Mao Standing at the headquarters of the Democratic Party at City House, Second Floor, it is difficult to imagine why controlling Uganda’s oldest political party is a do-or-die job for some people. A few meters …

By Rukiya Makuma Without her courage nodding disease would still be hidden away in northern Uganda She was desperate to call attention to the gravity of a rare disease ravaging northern Uganda that is crudely called “nodding disease”. Opposition firebrand Beatrice Anywar, however, never imagined how ferrying some of the …

By Agather Atuhaire Ninth parliament chews off more than it can bite? They started their term with fire when they rejected four of President Yoweri Museveni’s proposed ministers and went on to disagree strongly with many of his policies. They have since in Museveni’s “way” in fight against corruption, forced …

By Haggai Matsiko Charity NGOs or money making machines? When it first went viral with over 100 million viewers, a video about catching the notorious warlord Joseph Kony had swung Uganda into celebrity limelight. But when Kony 2012 producer, Jason Russell of the NGO, Invisible Children, suffered a mental meltdown …

  By Peter Nyanzi Workers turn to mass action to protect savings Fed up with government’s apparent lack of concern for their welfare, workers in Uganda are resorting to mass action in a bid to put pressure on the government to protect their pension savings in the National Social Security …

By Haggai Matsiko Invisible Children’s ‘Kony 2012’ viral campaign draws unfriendly fire If videos would kill, Lord’s Resistance Army rebel leader Joseph Kony would be dead by now.  Within just four days, a video—Kony2012— that aims at having him arrested by the end of this year, had gone viral with …