ARTICLES 2008-2015

By Agencies At a time when blood banks report dangerously low supplies, the best argument for rolling up your sleeve is still to do someone else some good. But if University of Florida researcher Jerome Sullivan, M.D., is right — and there’s new evidence to suggest he is — giving …

By Agencies Study shows men who eat vegetable oils, avocados, nuts instead of animal fats better off Men with prostate cancer may boost their survival chances if they replace animal fats and carbohydrates in their diet with healthy fats such as olive oils, nuts and avocados, new research suggests. Men …

By Aryeh Neier Military and  guerrilla leaders, Presidents know they could face justice for crimes against humanity When the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) was established by the United Nations Security Council 20 years ago, on May 25, 1993, many regarded it as a meaningless gesture. At …

By Andrew M. Mwenda Museveni’s opponents have employed the same tactics as their adversary – and Ugandans no longer see a difference In the 1990s, the enemy of the government of Uganda was the government of Sudan in Khartoum. The Monitor newspaper I worked for was moderately critical of the …

By Henry Zakumumpa Thousands of Ugandan lives at stake after generic HIV/AIDS drugs deadline extension snub The lives of thousands of Ugandans enrolled on HIV treatment hang in the balance after an application by poor countries to extend the deadline for manufacture of generic AIDS drugs was rejected by the …

By Hashim Wasswa Mulangwa It requires the GDP per capita to double in the next four years; from current US$500 to US$1,000 President Museveni, in his State of the Union Address today on June 6, made the same claim he has made numerous times before; that Uganda will be a …

By Ivan Rugambwa New taxes to make Ugandans poorer, increase cost of doing business When the Finance Minister, Maria Kiwanuka reads the budget, she will announce a tax increment on fuel that experts fear will hike transport fees and prices for commodities. The increment was first announced on April 10, …

By Haggai Matsiko Making resource rich regions become food poor Deep in Bukuya Sub County in Mubende district, a gold-mining company, AUC Mining Ltd owned by the British and some influential Ugandans, evicted about 400 peasants. At the gate to the mining company, one finds not ordinary security guards but …

By Stephen Kafeero Uganda is currently engulfed in a blood shortage crisis with deaths being reported across the country and Mulago heart institute suspending all major operations. In her statement to the press, the minister of state for Health in charge of primary health care, Sarah Opendi, attributed the current …

By Independent Investigations The Inside Story On Friday May 10, the Managing Director of Monitor Publications Limited, Alex Asiimwe, received an unusual phone call. The operator of the State House telephone switchboard told him President Yoweri Museveni wanted to talk to him. Can you hold the line? the operator asked. …