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By Haggai Matsiko UK and Germany firms use government officials to grab 20,000 peasants’ land As people celebrate Christmas, it is a luxury that others can even hardly afford to think about and have spent their last 10 Christmas like that—sad, poor and displaced. One of them is Mzee Matayo …

By Mubatsi Asinja Habati Hellen Kalende, 23, had just completed her studies at Kyambogo University in August and was looking forward to the Dec. 15 graduation where she would get aBachelors degree in Information Technology and Computing. On Nov. 9 at 9:30pm she was knocked by a speeding car and …

By Haggai Matsiko Why Museveni’s agenda with America is running out of time Faradje, a small town of 250,000 people on the edge of the Garamba Forest in north east DR Congo is this December marking the third anniversary since Joseph Kony ransacked it on December 25, 2008 and slaughtered …

By Eriasa Mukiibi Sserunjogi Why are the IGG’s witnesses vanishing? Why have witnesses been flying off the Inspector General of Government’s (IGG) list in the case against former Vice President Gilbert Bukenya? At midday on Nov. 7, Stanley Nsubuga, a Principal Inspectorate Officer in the IGG’s office, took to the …

By Haggai Matsiko Museveni blamed for protecting culprits Kale Kayihura, the Inspector General of Police, the head of the most corrupt institution in Uganda, is a lucky man. President Yoweri Museveni keeps praising him even when two reports have pinned the police as the most corrupt institution both nationally and …

By Agather Atuhaire What next after Wildlife Authority minister Kamuntu rejects it? Since Justice George Kanyeihamba released the report of his inquiry into alleged corruption in the Ministry of Tourism, Trade and Industry (MTTI), the line minister, Ephraim Kamuntu has been in a pickle. He needs to act on the …

By Eriasa Mukiibi Sserunjogi How Mbabazi lost round one Item no.6 on the Order Paper of Parliament on Nov. 9 was just 28 words. But its outcome could transform the relationship between parliament and the executive. Item 6 was a motion to force the most powerful member of President Yoweri …

By Agather Atuhaire No straight answers to power questions as public waits for Bujagali’s first 50 MW of power The continuous postponement of the when Bujagali hydropower plant will produce its first 50 MW has got many Ugandans concerned. ‘Will that power ever come?’ they ask. Even when it does, …

By Eriasa Mukiibi Sserunjogi How will Lord Mayor’s star fare after he is done fighting his wars in KCCA? Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) Executive Director Jennifer Musisi Kiwanuka on Nov. 17 met journalists to review her first six months in office. Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago had held his weekly …

By Mubatsi Asinja Habati Intrigue delays appointment of an executive director at Uganda’s Forest Authority Remember Damian Akankwasa? He is the former executive director of the National Forestry Authority (NFA) who hit fame after he accused his wife of pinching Shs 900 million from him in a story that shook …