Scramble to map out vote – Kenya’s rich diaspora
Local political contests and supremacy tussles aside, presidential aspirants are now venturing across the oceans in search of an estimated close to 3 million Diaspora vote ahead of the General Election. Kenyan president Mwai Kibaki (Center), PM Raila Odinga (L) and vice-president Kalonzo Musyoka release doves during the constitutional campaign REUTERS The More...
URA officials named in sh10b tax fraud
Trucks at a Revenue point. File Photo Uganda Revenue Authority officials have been implicated in a sh10 billion tax fraud. The Auditor General, John Muwanga, in a recent audit report said the officials More...
Kenya-Sudan-South Sudan: Back in Kakuma camp again
KAKUMA, 21 May 2012 (IRIN) – Six years after leaving a Kenyan refugee camp for his home in Sudan, where a 2005 accord was supposed to have put a permanent end to decades of civil war, David Aguer is back again, More...
Uganda: ‘Educated women more promiscuous than men’
They have gone to school. They have high profile jobs and are probably driving the latest cars. But behind the shiny curtains, educated women engage in cheating more than their less educated or uneducated counterparts, More...
Kampala Mayor Lukwago gets payrise, now earns sh33m a month
The minister in charge of Kampala, Wilson Muluri Mukasa, has recommended a new salary structure in which Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago’s monthly salary will be doubled to sh33m. Lord Mayor, Mr Erias Lukwago The minister More...
Tanzania: Treasury says donors` budget support cut timely
Ramadhani Khijjah, permanent secretary in the ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs The Ministry of Finance has welcome the recent announcement by a group of donors to cut down their financial support for the More...
BAE money flows into schools
A total of 30bn/- out of 84bn/- refunded by UK’s BAE Systems, following a controversial radar sale to the Tanzania government, will be used for purchasing desks in three regions in the country. Regional Administration More...
Chadema clarifies Shibuda-Heche saga
Maswa West Member of Parliament Mr John Shibuda The Chama cha Demokrasia na Maendeleo Youth Council (BAVICHA) Deputy Chairperson has distanced the party’s youth wing from the war of words between Maswa West Member More...
Kony will be brought to justice – AFRICOM
The Commander of the United States Africa Command (AFRICOM) Gen. Carter F. Ham has stated that he is confident the Lord’s Resistance Army chief, Joseph Kony will be brought to justice. LRA chief Joseph Kony “I More...
Congo promises to flush out ADF remnants
The Democratic Republic of Congo has given assurances to Uganda that it will flush out the remnants of the Allied Democratic Front (ADF) rebels from the eastern part of the country. The widow of the late Mugarura More...
