Where the paperwork is signed before it reaches the district
Our national desk sits close to the ministries. We read the licence registers, the budget lines and the court filings, then we go and check if any of it reached the ground.
The Kampala desk covers the Directorate of Geological Survey and Mines, the energy ministry, parliament committees and the courts. Most of the decisions that change life in Busia or Hoima are first written here, in a file that few people outside the corridor ever see.
We ask for the register. We compare what a licence says with what a community says is happening on their land. When the two do not agree, we publish both, with the document attached.
The desk also carries national health, water and education policy: budget releases, tariff changes and procurement notices. These are dry papers, but they decide whether a tap runs in a village.
More registers are now published online, so a licence claim can be checked in a day rather than a month. Some ministries answer written questions inside a week.
One email a week from the Kampala, Busia, Hoima and Jinja desks. What we checked, what we saw at the site, and what is still not adding up.
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