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Oil 25/07/2017

Total hires one of Museveni's buddies to oversee pipeline project

According to our sources, Samantha Muhwezi, daughter of former Ugandan minister of information and health, Jim Muhwezi, has been hired [...]

Corridors of power 25/07/2017

Why the government is dragging its feet to approve deal between Tullow and Cnooc-Total

The sale of 21.57% of Tullow Oil's 33% stake to [...]

Electricity 25/07/2017

Yoweri Museveni drives Albatros Energy back

Mauritian-headquartered firm Albatros Energy has been forced to say goodbye to its 230 MW heavy fuel power plant project in [...]

Palace whispers 21/07/2017

Museveni's political strategy comes under fire from his party

Criticism of president Yoweri Museveni has surged within his own [...]

Corridors of power 21/07/2017

Bank of Uganda told to open its books

The International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank and the United Nations are all turning up the heat on Bank of [...]

Power brokers 21/07/2017

Lwakataka, the "fisherman" who gives Museveni nightmares

Ponsanio Lwakataka, a former fisherman who joined Uganda's Internal Security Organisation (ISO) in 2006, gets more popular each time he [...]

Corridors of power 07/07/2017

Sissi doubts Museveni's impartiality with regards Addis

Egyptian president Abdelfattah al Sissi has been caught off balance by moves of his Ugandan counterpart, Yoweri Museveni, to mediate [...]

Corridors of power 07/07/2017

UNHCR donors take a poke at Museveni

A delegation from the U.N. refugee agency UNHCR qualified Yoweri Museveni's policies concerning refugees as potentially conflictual during a meeting [...]

Power brokers 04/07/2017

Yoweri Museveni sounds the death knell for Tibet Hima's projects

Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni wants to distance himself from Tibet Hima Mining Co's era in the Kilembe copper mine as [...]

Oil 27/06/2017

Oranto commandeers not one but two blocks

Junior Oranto, owned by Nigerian oil magnate Arthur Eze, is [...]

Corridors of power 26/06/2017

Parliament speaker defies Museveni on bonuses handed out for win against heritage

The Ugandan parliament is all in a flutter over the way a $2 million bonuses envelop was dished out in [...]

Corridors of power 23/06/2017

The next budget looks like serving NRM's interests

According to our sources, finance minister Matayo Kasaija told Parliament on June 8 that nearly 70% of the 2017-2018 budget [...]

Corridors of power 23/06/2017

ISIS attack foiled in Kampala

A classified report drafted by the Directorate of Criminal Intelligence that the Indian Ocean Newsletter has seen indicated that seven [...]

Business circles 23/06/2017

Egypt-Uganda Food Security in crisis mode

The Egyptian manager of the slaughterhouse is threatening to leave Uganda if his grievances don't bring changes. [...]

Business circles 23/06/2017

Kampala seeking partner for electronic waste.

The Kampala Capital City Authority headed by Jennifer Musisi is [...]

Palace whispers 09/06/2017

Museveni a mediator or arms supplier to South Sudan ?

Our sources say that while organizing a fake meeting to [...]

Corridors of power 09/06/2017

Museveni opens doors wider to Khartoum

Defense sources have told the Indian Ocean Newsletter that Uganda is to shortly play host to Sudan’s military attaches assigned [...]

Business circles 09/06/2017

Bitature locks in power monopoly for Unmeme

In penning a contract with China for the funding of two dams, the Ugandan tycoon has everything going for him at the moment. [...]

WHO'S WHO 09/06/2017

Mathew Kasaija, a minister in the hot seat

President Yoweri Museveni has put finance minister Mathew Kasaija under the surveillance of his security services at a moment when [...]

Corridors of power 30/05/2017

Magufuli sends right-hand men to handle oil pipeline deal in Kampala

While the Ugandan minister of energy Irene Muloni was able [...]

Power brokers 30/05/2017

Cnooc lawyer Chen Xian Min slow to close Tullow deal

Chinese major Cnooc still hasn’t wrapped up its purchase of 50% of Tullow Oil’s 22% stake in blocks around Lake [...]

Corridors of power 26/05/2017

Oromo opposition figures granted asylum in Kampala

According to security sources, Uganda’s government granted political asylum on [...]

Business circles 26/05/2017

Stanbic Bank in standoff with shareholders

Angry at seeing their dividends shrink year by year while the bank is itself making a profit, shareholders have fomented a mini revolt. [...]

Spotlight Oil 16/05/2017

How Museveni is playing CNOOC against Total

To pick up the pace of developments on its Ugandan projects - covering over one billion barrels - French major Total and its Chinese partner China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) have divvyed up the work, leaving Tullow Oil to [...]

Consultants 16/05/2017

Elison Karuhanga, KAA/Dentons’ new trump card

The absorption of Karuhanga, Kasajja & Company Advocates (KKCA) by [...]

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