By Mubatsi Asinja Abati Karimajong rustlers send Teso cattle herders back to IDP camps As thefts increase, cattle herders in the Teso sub-region of north east Uganda have since January been bringing their stout, short-horned cattle to community kraals every evening instead of keeping them at home. They hope to …

By Agather Atuhaire Received money purporting to visit wildlife areas on voting day The alleged misuse of PAMSU funds, now under investigation, could be just a part of a larger scheme in which top officials in the Ministry of Tourism, Trade and Industry abused money meant for the Uganda Wildlife …

By Eriasa Mukiibi Sserunjogi FDC’s leader tells party he will continue with protests FDC President Kizza Besigye has declared that he is opting out of electoral politics by 2015, but he has left a wide open window for his active participation in his party’s struggles against the NRM government. The …

By Mubatsi Asinja Habati After a two-year stint in Uganda as the US Embassy Public Affairs Officer, Joann Lockard left for Washington DC to study. The Independent’s Mubatsi Asinja Habati was among a group of journalists who spoke to her. What do you think will be the challenges that the …

By Bob A. Kasango Whether Gaddafi outlives the NATO airstrikes or not, he is the wrong man for Libya and Africa must ask him to go as they ask NATO to stop the shelling. Rebel leaders rejected a plan presented by the African Union (AU) for a ceasefire and an end to …

Lydia Draru, the suspected killer of former Army Commander Maj. Gen. James Kazini, is still in Luzira Prison. She has been there since November 11, 2009. Her trial has never come up and the Director of Public Prosecutions does not say when her case will be heard. No one really …

By Rohan Patnaik Uganda must do more on poverty, insecurity, and state trust Foreign Policy, the global ideas magazine published in the USA on June 20 released its 2011 Failed States Index. As in the past,  this 7th annual report ranks 177 countries worldwide from worst to best based on …

By Rosario Achola Not silence and listening to the buzzing sound of a teacher Fagil Mandy is a former commissioner in the ministry of education and is in private consultancy in the sector.   He spoke to The Independent’s Rosario Achola about how education can be used to reduce the youth …

By Julius Businge Bank of Uganda to introduce consumer protection mechanism What would make you borrow Shs 500,000 from a money lender at an interest rate between 15% and 30% per month? Many reasons but at the heart of each is on common feature; desperation – you want money badly. …

  By Mubatsi Asinja Habati Will Museveni step in to save loyal cadre? Money released by the ministry of Finance and allegedly used by President Yoweri Museveni’s campaign team is at the centre of former Vice President Speciosa Kazibwe’s recent sacking from the Microfinance Support Centre Ltd (MSC), The Independent …