The British government has cut over £7.5 million (about Shs27.3 billion) in direct aid to Uganda, citing slow progress in punishing ministers and other public officials accused of misappropriating Chogm funds.
The UK government, through its Department for International Development (DfID), said in an email to Daily Monitor on Thursday that it had withheld the money "owing to government's failure to address "high-level corruption" connected to expenditures on the 2007 Commonwealth summit.
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