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Total Uganda case in France: the Court of Appeal of Versailles remands the case to the commercial court

11 December 2020 - by Survie, Les Amis de la Terre, CCFD-Terre Solidaire , ActionAid France-Peuples Solidaires, Collectif Ethique sur l’étiquette

The Versailles Court of Appeal today issued its decision on the case against the oil giant Total led by six French and Ugandan associations - Friends of the Earth France, Survie, AFIEGO, CRED, NAPE and NAVODA - which constitutes the first legal (...)
Let us unite against micro-credits and illegitimate debt

4 March 2020 - by Sushovan Dhar

For every KSh 100 Kenya is collecting in tax revenue, it is spending KSh 130 to fund its budget needs, an overspending that is driving its voracious debt appetite to plug the shortfall. An analysis of the most recent expenditure data published (...)
Kangemi Declaration

14 February 2020 - by CADTM

We, the participants of the 2nd CADTM East Africa Regional Meeting from Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania as well as from Morocco and India gathered at Kangemi, Nairobi in Kenya from 7 to 9 February 2020 do hereby acknowledge and affirm that (...)
In Uganda, unions are helping to drive transport workers into decent work

10 July 2018 - by Diana Taremwa Karakire

Three years ago, Samuel Mugisha almost quit his job. As the driver of a motorbike taxi (known locally as a boda-boda) in the Ugandan capital of Kampala, rampant police harassment was having a huge, negative impact on his daily earnings. But (...)
The method in the madness: Uganda’s budget 2018 is divorced from reality

19 June 2018 - by Mary Serumaga

The report of the Auditor General (AG) for 2016–2017 is another catalogue of systemic theft, embezzlement and wastage of public goods. In this, it is similar to audit reports going back at least two decades. It appears that incompetence as much (...)
Bio-piracy: the sale of Uganda’s lakes to investors

7 June 2018 - by Mary Serumaga

The fishermen of Kabarole District appear to have blown the whistle on an audacious act of bio-piracy. They brought to the attention of the authorities that they were being barred from access to the 53 crater lakes that they have fished in from (...)
The Central Bank of Uganda Comes Clean About Looming Debt Distress

26 March 2018 - by Mary Serumaga

Uganda has finally admitted that there is an increasing likelihood that the country will default on its debt obligations. The (Central) Bank of Uganda issued the warning in the first quarterly State of the Economy Report of 2018. The public (...)
The case for repudiation of Uganda’s public debt

8 December 2017 - by Mary Serumaga

Uganda is in imminent danger of defaulting on its debt repayment obligations. The Auditor General notes in 2017 that interest payments on the public debt exceeded legal limits (15% of the annual budget) and are likely to be unsustainable going (...)
Hunger, Foreign Debt and Uganda’s Fairytale Budgets

29 November 2017 - by Mary Serumaga

An abiding image of Uganda in April 2017 is of a group of elderly people squatting around an anthill, men and women, patting it with bunches of greenery to coax the termites out. They then pluck up the termites and eat them, not as the seasonal (...)
Debt audit: An alternative weapon against state capture

20 February 2017 - by Mary Serumaga

Many African nations are mired in huge debts arising from foreign loans that have hardly benefitted the people. The citizens need to audit these debts. Odious debts should be repudiated, damn the consequences. Moreover, as Thomas Sankara (...)
Debt policy update, from Jubilee Debt Campaign

10 February 2016 - by Jubilee Debt Campaign

Highlights 1) Debt risks increase as commodity prices stay low According to the IMF and World Bank, 10 low income countries have seen an increased risk of not being able to pay their debts over the last year as global commodity prices have (...)
Public-private partnerships in Uganda cost the country dearly

28 September 2015 - by Paul Harper

Privatisation of the Ugandan electricity sector, initiated in 1999 as a condition of the debt relief programme, was supposed to mean the end of state support. Yet, by 2013 a special committee of the Ugandan Parliament reported that subsidies (...)