By Haggai Matsiko Martyrs Day, June 3, this year comes about one month after opposition leader, Rtd Col. Dr Kizza Besigye was on April 28 subjected to one of the most brutal arrests by ruthless security forces. The closeness of the events has got some people comparing Besigye’s ordeal to …

By Special correspondent First national company to issue dividend Directors of Rwanda’s leading brewery by market share, Bralirwa, a subsidiary of Heineken International, has proposed a 100 percent net income dividend payout as an incentive to investors. The proposal is the first of its kind in Rwanda and will be …

By Special correspondent Shares of Bank of Kigali and MTN Rwanda up for grabs The Rwandan government expects to raise Rwf25 billion through the sale of its shares in two major companies–Bank of Kigali (BK) and MTN Rwanda–to grow capital for private sector initiatives. “We have been calling for long term …

By Mubatsi Asinja Habati Passing Kings Bill was biggest blunder A new parliament has been ushered in at a time when the August House has become largely a rubber stamp of the executive. The Independent’s Mubatsi Asinja Habati spoke to retired Supreme Court Judge and a renowned constitutional scholar, Justice …

By Achola Rosario   Will the Ugandan Judiciary remain independent if the proposed constitutional amendment that denies bail to treason suspects, economic saboteurs, terrorists and defilers is passed into law? “First of all you must remove presumption of innocence, before you remove the right to bail. So they will have …

By Charles Onyango-Obbo It takes Museveni more men to stop Besigye from walking, than it took US President Obama to kill terror mastermind Osama bin Laden. After the recent violence-riddled weeks in Uganda as the government cracked down on the opposition-led “walk-to-wolk” protests, and crowned it by an unnerving savage …

By Arthur Larok Today it’s more profitable to ride a boda-boda or run a small restaurant in town than engage in agricultural productivity in fertile rural Uganda. Very early on May 10 morning as I travelled from Kampala to my home district of Gulu for a meeting with the Institute …

By Mubatsi Asinja Habati Kotido is one of the oldest districts in Karamoja, an area that has often been referred to as the least developed part of Uganda. Karamoja has seen the brunt of violent cattle rustling and gun trafficking which have slowed down the general development of the area. …

By Mubatsi Asinja Habati Moses Lotyong, 19, is in P.3 at Panyangara Primary School in the remote district of Kotido in the drought- prone Karamoja. At Lotyong’s age many Ugandans from other parts of the country are in university. His 11-year-old sister is in P.5 at the same school. Lotyong …

By Achola Rosario Norbert Mao is the President of the opposition Democratic Party, one of the political organisations involved in the Walk-to-Work campaign that has been running for a month. He spoke to The Independent’s  Achola Rosario. Are we going to see a return to open disappearing of `enemies of …