The Independent

Uganda's coffee exports down 18% in the past month. I am more surprised that Uganda is referred to as Africa's largest exporter of coffee beans. 

Make that 2.5 billion barrels of oil. That is how much oil Tullow says it has found in Uganda. These numbers are approaching the stuff of fiction. 

The crime of sedition has been scrapped from the Penal Code. And rightly so.  

The new parliamentary score card is out, and it's not exactly pass-fail. Can't wait to present this information in map form. But the pdf is not yet available for download from the AFLI website.

Sept 1-2: Google developer event at Speke Resort and Conference Centre. Get registered now.

"A common market is not an event. It is a process." BBC Africa Today on the first day of the EAC common market 2.0

Missionaries of Hate: Mariana van Zeller talks to Hulu.com about her report on Uganda's proposed anti-gay legislation. The video content is not accessible to anyone outside the U.S.

The BOSCO water source mapping project. Jokondino Okema of Pagak, working with students from Lacor, has begun to implement the water source mapping project.

Roadside bomb kills a Ugandan soldier in Somalia.

Bank of Uganda to issue 60 billion shillings worth of bonds. Auction date is May 26. Minimum bid is 100,000 shillings.

Broadcasting genius in a jerrycan. These kids made a radio out of an old circuit board, a jerrycan, an old speaker and some wires. Seriously.