Month: December 2011

The Constitutional Court has issued an order halting the ongoing Parliamentary probe against Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi and 2 ministers over allegations of corruption in the oil sector. Amama Mbabazi and Ministers Sam Kutesa and Hilary Onek are being investigated by Parliament for allegedly taking billions in bribes to favor […]

The first state witness in the trial against Prof. Gilbert Bukenya over the CHOGM car deal has exonerated the former Vice President of any wrong doing. Prof. Gilbert Bukenya and the directors of Motor Care Uganda Klaus Karstensein and Per Lundgren face charges of abuse of office and fraudulent practice. […]

Civil society organizations have urged government to improve facilitation to the Anti-Corruption Court, if its effectiveness is to be improved. The organizations which include the Anti-Corruption Coalition, the Uganda Debt Network and ACCODE sounded the call as they began marking the Anti-Corruption week today. The organizations appreciate the role played […]

A Rwandan journalist has been killed in Kampala. The editor of Rwanda’s Inyenyeri news, Charles Ingabire who had sought refugee in Uganda for political reasons, has been shot dead at a Kampala pub. Ingabire who was a vocal critic of President Paul Kagame was shot dead past midnight on Wednesday […]

Calm is slowly returning to Katwe where traders had earlier blocked Entebbe road, as they demonstrated against persistent load shedding. The demonstration spread from Clock tower to Katwe town. Anti-riot police has now been deployed to quell the protest. The demonstrators had lit fires in the middle of the road […]