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Today (09.09.2010)

Open primaries good for parties

The National Resistance Movement (NRM) voters turned up by the thousands-- if you go by official election results-- to vote in the party’s primaries. Sixteen cabinet ministers and scores of sitting MPs did not make it past the first universal adult suffrage primaries in Uganda. #00:00 09.09.2010 from channel Monitor Online

One step backwards for the motherland

The country could slip down yet another rung in the ladder of democracy ratings with the looming enactment of a law purportedly designed to regulate public gatherings. #00:00 09.09.2010 from channel Monitor Online

Yesterday (08.09.2010)

Rival groups fuelling death of infant oil industry

Lack of transparency and failure to set up laws to manage the country’s oil industry has left Uganda vulnerable to vultures, writes DANIEL K. KALINAKI. A couple of weeks ago, Energy Minister Hilary Onek received a text message on his cell phone. #00:00 08.09.2010 from channel Monitor Online

Government drafts Bill to control public assemblies

MukonoA Bill to regulate public gatherings and assemblies is before Cabinet, the Inspector General of Police, Maj Gen. Kale Kayihura, has disclosed. #00:00 08.09.2010 from channel Monitor Online

Day before yesterday (07.09.2010)

Kagame speaks about his election victory, claims on political repression

On Tuesday August 10th, The Independent Managing Editor, Andrew M. Mwenda, hosted President Paul Kagame of Rwanda on a radio show on Contact FM in Kigali, a day after the voting in that country’s presidential election. #23:44 07.09.2010 from channel The Independent

Who funds NRM?

The party has no budget, trading arm or known financiers Seven years after the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) was registered as a political party, it has no annual budget nor a clear financial system to guide expenditures on its activities. #23:36 07.09.2010 from channel The Independent

Kenya’s flower farming slowly wilting due to high cost of doing business

The high cost of doing business and lack of sector-specific incentives is costing Kenya foreign direct investment in the flower industry. The scenario is in favour of Ethiopia where the government provides electricity and constructs roads for investors. #00:00 07.09.2010 from channel Monitor Online

NAADS has little impact on farming productivity - EPRC

National Agricultural Advisory Services has little impact on increasing agricultural productivity in the country because of poor implementation and monitoring. #00:00 07.09.2010 from channel Monitor Online

03.09.2010

IPC is capable of causing regime change in 2011

A lot has been said since the Uganda Peoples Congress (UPC) commenced their journey out of the Inter-Party Cooperation (IPC) by failing to pick nomination forms for IPC flag bearer, which culminated into their already anticipated official exit from the now five-party alliance on August 30. Armchair analysts who have no field informatio #00:00 03.09.2010 from channel Monitor Online

01.09.2010

Is UPC pulling out of IPC?

On August 17, the interparty cooperation (IPC) nominated the long waited potential candidates to vie for the cooperation’s presidential candidate in the 2011 elections to compete with President Yoweri Museveni. #05:27 01.09.2010 from channel The Independent

Workers want employent policy

Workers have asked government to forward the National Employment Policy to Parliament for approval within one month, lest they strike. #00:00 01.09.2010 from channel Monitor Online

26.08.2010

Have the vampires pulled off first big win in oil business?

One of the esteemed readers of this column brought my attention to a little publicised fact in the ongoing tax battles between Heritage and the Government of Uganda over Uganda Revenue Authority’s (URA) insistence to collect $404 million capital gains on Heritage’s investment in two oil exploration blocks in Bunyoro. This position has #10:22 26.08.2010 from channel Monitor Online

25.08.2010

Gen. Museveni orders Saleh, Jeje off politics

President Museveni has ordered army generals, Salim Saleh and Jeje Odongo out of elective politics in Nakaseke and Amuria respectively. #21:29 25.08.2010 from channel The Observer

What UPC stands to lose in rejecting IPC

With speculation growing about UPC’s place in the opposition alliance, IPC, the lingering question remains: does the party get weaker or stronger if it withdraws from the alliance? Analysts say UPC’s withdrawal would leave it politically weaker. #21:16 25.08.2010 from channel The Observer

Hitting them where it hurts?

Donors scale back aid over CHOGM but government is prepared for the backlash Donors under the Joint Budget Support partners announced a cut of Shs80 billion from their Shs756 billion ($360 million) aid to Uganda on Aug 9. #05:59 25.08.2010 from channel The Independent

23.08.2010

Uganda Clays seeks sh11b from NSSF

By David Mugabe UGANDA Clays (UCL) is awaiting the approval of a sh11b loan from the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) to refinance working capital and loans accrued from banks. #01:07 23.08.2010 from channel New Vision Business News

22.08.2010

Otunnu to meet Besigye over IPC

The nomination of UPC president, Olara Otunnu as an aspiring IPC flag-bearer would need the approval of either the party’s national council or delegates’ conference, the national chairman, Maj. Edward Rurangaranga has said. #19:07 22.08.2010 from channel The Observer

Old rivalries back as NRM primaries begin

Betty Bigombe, Babu, Tim Lwanga, Bageya are back Janat Mukwaya, Kirunda Kivejinja, Kigyagi have quit Kyambadde, Hilary Onek, Musa Ecweru unopposed With just a week left to the NRM district and parliamentary primaries, tempers are already flaring among candidates and there are early fears that the elections could be marred by violence. From the #19:01 22.08.2010 from channel The Observer

20.08.2010

Kasubi tombs probe named

Justice Stephen Geroge Engwau is the head of the Kasubi Tombs fire commission of inquiry By Hillary Nsambu Justice Stephen George Engwau of the Court of Appeal has been appointed to head the commission of inquiry into the cause of the fire that destroyed Kasubi Tombs last March. Four of the six-member team were swor #01:23 20.08.2010 from channel New Vision Frontpage News

18.08.2010

Why Otunnu abandoned Col. Besigye

UPC’s last minute withdrawal from the nominations for a joint opposition presidential candidate injects a dose of unpredictability into the Inter-Party Cooperation. #22:03 18.08.2010 from channel The Observer