Pressure from the international community is mounting on Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila to have Ugandan troops out of Congolese territory but Uganda will ignore this and push for more time, Foreign Affairs Minister Sam Kutesa...

By Julius Barigaba Kampala, Feb 27 2009 Wednesday morning’s inferno at Park Yard, a section of Kampala’s largest market Owino, means a number of things for Uganda’s poor folks who looked to it not just as a means to eke out a livelihood but...

Image By Julius Barigaba Kampala, Feb 25 2009 Fire this morning gutted Kampala’s largest market, St. Balikuddembe, burning to ashes property and merchandise worth billions of shillings. Police authorities are yet to put their finger on the exact...

By Julius Barigaba Kampala, Feb 20 2009 Karamoja, here comes God’s messenger; but what a job she has got on her hands! Close to one million hungry, starving people, battered by many years of unrelenting drought and languishing in disease, poverty...

By Julius Barigaba Kampala, Feb 18 2009 Construction of the Eldoret-Kampala oil pipeline is set to start in April this year after the government of Uganda recently completed the process of acquiring one square mile of land. The land, situated 15...