By Flavia Nassaka The Medical Research Council (MRC), a body under the Uganda Virus Research Institute (UVRI), is this year marking 25 years of operations in Uganda. Prof. Pontiano Kaleebu, the director, spoke to Flavia Nassaka about the current state of medical / health research in the country. Briefly, what …
Read More »I love Jesus but hate churches
By Joan Akello Frank Gashumba Mwalingumu, Director General of National Action for Awakening Uganda (Sisimuka Uganda) talked to Joan Akello about single fatherhood and governance. Any Three things do we not know about you? I’m very clean, a strong Christian and I love Jesus but hate churches. Are you rich? …
Read More »URA must collect more money, says new boss
By Julius Businge On Oct.27, Finance Minister Maria Kiwanuka announced the appointment of Doris Akol as new Commissioner General of Uganda Revenue Authority. The Independent’s Julius Businge alongside other journalists attended a mini-press briefing with Akol at the Authority’s headquarters in Kampala. Who is Doris Akol and how did you …
Read More »The end of Ebola
By Abdul Tejan-Cole The world needs a flexible, adaptive, ethical, and transparent approach to treatment and prevention The Ebola epidemic is threatening not only West Africans’ lives, but also the progress toward democracy, economic growth, and social integration that Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea have made in the last decade. …
Read More »Sex, cars and lawyers
By Catherine K. Nabasirye Some lessons from the recently decided Nsenga case Sex can change everything. Jackline Uwera Nsenga, 36, was on 23 September 2014 convicted and sentenced to 20 years in prison for the murder of her husband Juvenal Nsenga, 48. According to the trial judge His Lordship Duncan …
Read More »The economic consequences of sex
By Mukesh Eswaran Myriad human interactions produce practices that perpetuate a sexual hierarchy of wellbeing Until recently, there has been very little analysis of women’s role in the economy. Two centuries ago, Mary Wollstonecraft published her proto-feminist A Vindication of the Rights of Women, and in 1869 John Stuart Mill, …
Read More »Prof. Ali Mazrui: Remembering the giant mind of Africa
By Dr. Jude Kagoro Prof. Ali Mazrui: Remembering the giant mind of Africa On October 13, the world woke up to the news that the life of Prof. Ali Mazrui, the eminent intellectual, had come to an end at the age of 81. The Kenyan, also a de facto Ugandan …
Read More »Uganda’s tough land questions
By Morris Ogenga-Latigo Leaders need to champion radical reforms not play politics to please voters In 1994, when supporting a candidate for the Constituent Assembly election, I extracted key issues in the Draft Constitution. On land, I was emphatic that former president Idi Amin’s 1975 Land Decree was the best …
Read More »Uganda bounces back on ITU Council
By Julius Businge Uganda has been elected to the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Council or ITU Region D (Africa) for 2014-2018, according to a statement issued by the Uganda Communications Commission on Sept.27. The elections took place during the 19th Plenipotentiary Conference in Busan, Korea. Uganda was last elected to …
Read More »HIV-negative partners face infection risk
By Nicole Namubiru Doctors explain why it’s best to use protection in a discordant relationship If a couple is in a long term sexual relationship and one of them is HIV-positive and the other is negative, scientists refer to them as a `discordant couple’. Dr Raymond Mwebaze, a general physician …
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