ARTICLES 2008-2015

By Nicole Namubiru If more attention is given to advanced technology, there will be fewer unnecessary deaths, experts say Despite a slight increase, the allocation to the health sector in this year’s budget has not impressed sector enthusiasts. While it increased from Shs 1.1 trillion to Shs 1.2 trillion, the …

By Joan Akello Ruth Sebatindira, the outgoing president of the Uganda Law Society (ULS), talked to Joan Akello about leadership and society. Any three things we do not know about you? I am a minimalist; for example I have fewer shoes and clothes than my husband, and I love music. …

By Edgar Tushabe Muhairwe The FDC delegates’ conference is going on at the Lugogo main exhibition centre.  This special delegates sitting was called to choose new members of the National Executive Committee that will steer the party for the next five years including the voting of the party flag bearer …

By Ronald Musoke In April, this year, Leonard Okema ordered for a Toyota Harrier model 2001 from one of the used car dealers in Japan. Unlike many Ugandans who were on June 11 taken by surprise by the Finance Minister Matia Kasaija’s raising of the environmental levy on used cars, …

By Ronald Musoke Tracing the origins of River Nyamwamba’s fury Whenever it shines a lot, usually it is an indication that someone will drown in the river,” says Janet Kyakimwa.  The 35 year old woman knows a thing about River Nyamwamba in western Uganda on the edges of the Rwenzori …

By Agnes E. Nantaba Inside the political legacy of the First Lady With her arresting profile, large warm eyes, bright white teeth and jet-black hair, Janet Museveni in 1986 came across as an engaging first lady. She was young; just 37-years old and her husband, President Yoweri Museveni, had just …

By Independent Team Is Uganda headed for a debt crisis? What happens when you take a bunch of election spending reality, throw in a pinch of anticipated oil dollar excitement, and wrap it all up in some new accounting procedures? That is the question analysts of Uganda’s 2015/16 national budget …

By Angela Merkel and François Hollande A call for a fundamental shift to low-carbon infrastructure, technologies, land use France, incoming Presidency of COP 21, and Germany, Presidency of the G 7, are firmly decided to take all efforts to reach an ambitious, comprehensive and binding UN climate agreement by the …

By Christine Mungai Weighing in on Africa’s troubles with democracy and prosperity I once heard a saying that if elders are having a serious meeting and a little boy wanders too close by, the old men will chase him away faster than his legs can carry him. But if a …

By Andrew M. Mwenda Exposing the hidden bias behind our obsession with Western goodness and Africa’s dysfunctions The greatest triumph of the colonial state was not the integration of our economies and social/political systems into the international capitalism system. That could have been achieved without colonialism and via free trade. …