By Stephen Kafeero In a move to strengthen the cooperation between the German and Uganda Police in the fight against international terrorism and organized crime, the Uganda Police has today received a contingent of 4 vehicles and other communication equipment from the Federal Republic of Germany to support the Forensic …

By Julius Odeke The International Criminal Commission (ICC) Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda today formally opened an investigation into alleged crimes committed on the territory of Mali since January 2012. This decision is the result of the preliminary examination of the situation in Mali that the Office had been conducting since July …

By Ronald Musoke Maria Kiwanuka, the finance minister has said she expects all electricity users in Uganda to have pre-paid metres within two years as a new measure to check power theft. While speaking to members of the private sector at a post-budget analysis luncheon on June 14, Kiwanuka noted …

By Ronald Musoke & Agencies The Africa Progress Panel has today urged the G8 leaders meeting at a two-day summit in Lough Erne, Northern Ireland, to make company ownership transparent, exchange tax information and support Africa’s tax collection agencies. The panel that advocates for equitable and sustainable development in Africa …

By Ronald Musoke President Yoweri Museveni spared some few minutes at yesterday’s budget reading to warn the Egyptian government against uttering ‘chauvinistic statements’ in regard to the use of the River Nile waters. Museveni’s caution followed an impassioned speech  by the Egyptian President, Mohammed Morsi ,on June 10 when he …

By The Independent’s Investigative Team General’s fight linked to ICC In mid-April, the International Criminal Court (ICC) at The Hague in the Netherlands received a dossier on alleged human rights violations by the Uganda government generally, and President Yoweri Museveni and the Inspector General of Police, Gen. Kale Kayihura, specifically.  …

By Andrew M. Mwenda Museveni’s opponents have employed the same tactics as their adversary – and Ugandans no longer see a difference In the 1990s, the enemy of the government of Uganda was the government of Sudan in Khartoum. The Monitor newspaper I worked for was moderately critical of the …

By Stephen Kafeero Uganda is currently engulfed in a blood shortage crisis with deaths being reported across the country and Mulago heart institute suspending all major operations. In her statement to the press, the minister of state for Health in charge of primary health care, Sarah Opendi, attributed the current …

By Independent Investigations The Inside Story On Friday May 10, the Managing Director of Monitor Publications Limited, Alex Asiimwe, received an unusual phone call. The operator of the State House telephone switchboard told him President Yoweri Museveni wanted to talk to him. Can you hold the line? the operator asked. …

By Andrew M. Mwenda The closure and reopening of Daily Monitor and Red Pepper exposed the weaknesses, not the strength, of the state Finally, the government re-opened Daily Monitor and its affiliate radio stations KFM and Dembe on the one hand and the Red Pepper and her sister newspapers Kamunye …