The African Development Bank (EADB) signed a Ush175b contract with the National Water and Sewerage Corporation (NWSC) to help erect a new and larger sewerage plant in Kampala.
The plant that would be operational by 2012 would treat about 45 million litres of both sewage and water discharge per day.

Dr William Muhairwe, the NWSC boss admitted that the water body had for years not paid attention to the sewerage component.

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Telecom market leader MTN and archrivals Zain and Uganda Telecom, announced massive cuts in tariff plans following an earlier spark by Warid Telecom that slashed its rates to Ush5 per second.

MTN set new tariff at Ush3 per second on the per second billing and Ush160 for calls within the MTN yellomax tariff plan.

Zain fixed a uniform tariff for calls to all networks at Ush180 implying Ush3 per second. UTL calls would cost Ush4 for calls within the network and Ush5 for calls to other networks.

Phone tapping law endorsed

Government had secretly been paying businessman Hassan Basajjabalaba, part of the Ush46b he claimed in compensation for city markets that were leased to his company and then taken back.
Media sources indicated that government promised to pay Basajjabalaba's Haba Group of CompaniesUsh46b in compensation for the two cancelled leases on Owino and Nakasero markets in downtown Kampala.

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The opposition Inter-Party Cooperation (IPC) held a 'crisis meeting' at their offices on Katonga Road in Kampala, to resolve the stand-off that befell the loose coalition following Otunnu's earlier failure to turn up for nomination.

At the meeting, Otunnu said his party had serious policy and operational issues regarding how the IPC was being run.

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