The Danish Agency for Development Assistance (DANIDA) has threatened to stop grants and loans to Uganda, citing high level corruption in district councils. The Danish Ambassador, Flemming Bjork Pedersen has written to the Minister of Integrity and Ethics, Miria Matembe and the Inspector General of Government demanding action against Rakai's district chairman Vincent Semakula Kiwanuka who allegedly misappropriated millions of shillings.

This International Telecommunications Union (ITU) study, published in 2000, is one of a series. It provides an description of Uganda, the ICT status, Internet policy, and sectoral penetration in key sectors, including government and education.

The Ugandan army shot dead around 50 rebels based in Sudan during fighting over the weekend, according to an army spokesman. Major Shaban Bantariza said the rebels were killed near the Sudanese village of Katire, about 60 km (37 miles) north of the Ugandan border.

With the support of Global Fund For Women (GFW), NVIWODA Centre for Entrepreneurship and Career Develoment has since 1998 to-date, been able to train 377 women entrepreneurs, who are now engaged in various enterprises. 0ur 12th programme is scheduled for 10th June - 28th June and 25 participants are expected to benefit from the programme.

Following the passing of the Leadership Code by Parliament last week ethics and Integrity Minister Miria Matembe should be (or is it must be?) the happiest woman in the World. Given that members of Parliament have featured among those prominent in the violation of certain provisions of the existing Leadership Code, getting through Parliament a new law that seeks to facilitate effective implementation of the very provisions they chose to ignore, and did ignore with impunity, is by no means an envious task.

Central Purchasing Company (CPC) Managing Director, Anthony Okwenye has decried corruption in the procurement process. "Corruption starts right from the tendering process through the contract administration up to the end of the procurement," he said.

PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni has directed the Kibaale-based Kagadi Community Radio to stop airing controversial political views on the ethnic clashes in the district.

FRED Kamugira, the Mbarara District chairman, has refuted press reports that Mbarara is the most corrupt district in Uganda.

PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni has said he intends to appoint a Judicial Commission of Inquiry into the Judiciary. In his statement to the committee, Museveni said judges and magistrates were biased. He said some of the decisions by the judges were amazing.

Journalists covering president Yoweri Museveni’s public functions will soon regain the opportunity to take photographs of, film and make audio recordings.

Members of the Ugandan Parliament havedemanded that President Yoweri Museveni declares his wealth publicly, to show his commitment to the fight against corruption.

THE Ugandan press is facing a new threat. It is the Anti Terrorism Bill passed by Parliament recently. The Bill has very serious implications not only for the press freedom but also the freedoms of speech and expression.

Jim Adams was the World Bank’s country director for Tanzania and Uganda from 1995 until March 2002. He is now returning to the Bank’s headquarters in Washington DC, USA, where he will be the vice-president of operational policy. He spoke to IRIN about some current topics of interest in Tanzania and Uganda - including economic growth, poverty reduction, debt relief and government spending priorities.

The United Nation's Children's Fund (UNICEF) on Thursday reiterated its "grave concern" over the fate of thousands of children abducted by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in southern Sudan, especially in light of the reported abandonment of many of them by the rebel group after a major military offensive by the Ugandan army.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) and the United Nations Aid (Unaid) would continue supporting the use of nevirapine for prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV, despite irregularities found to have characterised the Ugandan study on the use of drug, the two organisations have said.

Know How Conference is organized by Isis-WICCE (Women's International Cross-Cultural Exchange) which is based in Kampala, assisted by the International Information Center and Archives for the Women's Movement (IIAV) in Amsterdam and Isis International-Manila. This conference brings together specialists in getting information to where it is needed, whether to the grass roots, researchers, policy makers or the media.

The Inspector General of Government, Jotham Tumwesigye, on Friday said some multinational companies have been fuelling corruption in the Ugandan public service.

The Ugandan government has identified and demarcated a new site on which it plans to resettle some 2,673 Ugandan returnees from Tanzania, who have been camped under difficult conditions at Kikagati, Mbarara District, in southern Uganda, according to a senior official at the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM).

The US ambassador to Uganda, Martin Brennan, said this week that the human rights situation in the country had significantly improved, but that his country was still concerned by flaws in the electoral process, together with political intimidation, according to the government-owned New Vision newspaper.

A three-month judicial probe into Uganda's tax authority has started to root out "massive" corruption and boost tax revenues.