Amos Mwase, the former deputy director for Health and Safety at TotalEnergies Uganda, has lost his attempt to have his dismissal reversed after the High Court ruled that he had pursued the wrong legal process. Justice Bernard Namanya dismissed Mwase’s application for judicial review without considering whether his dismissal was fair or unfair. Instead, he…
The High Court has dismissed a case lodged by G4S, a private security firm, against the Uganda Revenue Authority (URA), protesting payment of tax on the meals it provides to its security guards at CNOOC and TotalEnergies facilities. However, the court also agreed that URA had wrongly used a blanket 30% tax rate in calculating…
The European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) has filed a criminal complaint in France accusing TotalEnergies of complicity in war crimes, torture, and enforced disappearance in northern Mozambique. The case, lodged with France’s National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor (PNAT), alleges that the oil and gas giant directly financed and supported a special military unit known…
As the editor of Bbeg Media and previously as a news reporter, I have covered many stories about Uganda’s oil sector over the years. But nothing prepared me for the eye-opening tour I joined with about 20 other editors and senior journalists from 30 September to 3 October 2025. Organised by the Petroleum Authority of…
In 2010, I developed a desire to set up a hotel. Tourists were my target because we neighbor Murchison Falls National Park. I realised my dream when I set up a small hotel. In 2016, those bad liars from the oil sector made a big crusade in Buliisa. They told us, ‘People of Buliisa, build…
