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Friday 27th January, 2012

    • Uganda President: Tullow Asset Sale Deal Deadlocked

    Rigzone

    KAMPALA, Uganda -U.K.-based Tullow Oil PLC's long-delayed deal to sell part of its assets in Uganda to France's Total SA and China's CNOOC Ltd. is deadlocked due to a fresh row with ...

    • UPDATE 1-Uganda's Museveni says Tullow farm out deal delayed

    General Sources

    * Delay due to disagreements over tax issues, pipeline * Tullow had said deal to be completed by end-January (Adds quotes) KAMPALA, Jan 27 (Reuters) - Uganda said on Friday the proposed sale ...

    • AFRICA DEBT-Record yield seen for Ugandan 5-year bond

    Reuters

    LONDON Jan 27 (Reuters) - The yield on Ugandan 5-year bonds is expected to soar above 20 percent at an auction next week, reflecting the rise in inflation since the instrument was last sold in ...

  • Police Officer Shoots At Journalist

    All Africa

    press release Isaac Kasamani, a "Daily Monitor" photographer, narrowly escaped death when a police officer shot at him on 24 January 2012 at about 7:30 p.m. as he took a photo of a ...

  • Who Will Be Crowned Sports Personality of the Year?

    All Africa

    Tony Odur AN unprecedented four-way close battle for the Nile Special USPA Sports Personality of 2011 is not for the faint-hearted as two accomplished sportswomen face off with two well established ...

  • Payback Time for Express Against Simba

    All Africa

    The Maroons versus Express encounter last November is best remembered for one of Bell Uganda Super League's biggest upsets. Express left Luzira wondering what had hit them after then ...

  • Nation Honours Kagame, Nguema

    All Africa

    President Yoweri Museveni has awarded the visiting Presidents of Rwanda Paul Kagame and Theodore Obiang Nguema Obasago of Equatorial Guinea with the most excellent 0rder of the Pearl of Africa, the ...

  • Uganda: Disabled and Poverty Stricken, the Sad Reality of FGM

    All Africa

    Mbale - Female circumcision, often referred to as female genital mutilation, affects an estimated 92 million girls in Africa aged 10 and above. In Uganda, the practice was officially banned in 2009 ...

  • Uganda shilling gains as investors rush into govt debt

    General Sources

    Ugandan shilling jumped 0.6 percent against the dollar on Friday, expanding its gains for a seventh straight session on the back of surging inflows ...

  • Kibuli Mufti Rallies Muslims Against Supreme Council Polls

    All Africa

    The defacto Mufti from the Kibuli faction has cautioned Muslims against supporting the election organised by the Uganda Muslim Supreme Council leadership, saying it is aimed at hoodwinking the Islam ...

  • Fire Razes Police Post, Seven Vehicles

    All Africa

    Fire yesterday burnt down Kitgum Stage Police Post in Lira Town and seven vehicles parked at the facility for safe custody were not spared either. The cause of the inferno, which started at around ...

  • Alleged Ssemakokiro Mother Demands Shs500 Million in Damages

    All Africa

    Ugandans will have to wait a little longer to know the mother of new Buganda Prince Richard Ssemakookiro after it emerged that the woman alleged to be the Prince's mother denied the reports. ...

  • Clarify Link Between Metropolitan Physical Planning Authority, KCCA

    All Africa

    opinion When I saw pictures of KCCA gun-wielding officials who murdered a person at Port Bell- Luzira on Sunday, I decided to clarify where the KCCA Act, 2010, locates the responsibility for ...

  • Condemnation Grows Over Police Shooting At Journalist

    All Africa

    Leading global media institutions that work to safeguard press freedom have joined this newspaper's editorial leadership in condemning Tuesday evening's police shooting at Daily Monitor ...

  • UN accuses Khartoum of bombing camp

    The Monitor

    The UN has accused Sudan of bombing Elfoj refugee camp in the South Sudan's Upper Nile state, an attack that has heightened tensions between the two ...

  • Court says sodomy case still awaits probe file

    The Monitor

    Buganda Road Chief Magistrate has adjourned the case in which four pastors are accused of conspiring to tarnish the name of the Rubaga Miracle Centre head, Pastor Robert ...

  • Poverty limiting business growth in north and east

    The Monitor

    The Northern and Eastern regions are still the most poverty stricken parts of the informal sector in the country, a Platform for Labour Action report on Civic and Political participation of women ...

  • Kenyan ICC suspects to stay in office, Attorney General says

    The Monitor

    Appeal. The AG says the suspects were charged in their individual capacities and that government will wait for outcome of appeals by any of the ...

  • Opposition dismiss Museveni speech

    The Monitor

    President Museveni should stop 'recycling the same old template of empty promises to Ugandans,' the opposition leaders said yesterday while reacting to a speech the President delivered in ...

  • Clinton’s deputy, Museveni talk rights today

    The Monitor

    The US deputy Secretary of State, Ambassador William Burns, is expected in the country today to engage with President Museveni on a range of bilateral issues, including regional security and good ...

  • African Markets - Factors to watch on Jan 27

    Reuters

    The following company announcements, scheduled economic indicators, debt and currency market moves and political events may affect African markets on Friday. - - - - - EVENTS: *SENEGAL - Court ...

  • Makerere VC Barya Faces Probe Over Grant

    All Africa

    The Makerere University Vice Chancellor, Prof. Venansius Baryamureeba, is being investigated over allegations that he mismanaged a Dutch-funded scholarship scheme for PhD students worth Euros 5.7m ...

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