By Rosebell Kagumire Justice Joseph Mulenga has been a judge at the Supreme Court of Uganda for the last 12 years. Last week he retired from the bench. The Independents Rosebell Kagumire spoke to him on his last day in office about a range of issues. Excerpts:- My Lord, you …

By David Chandi Jamwa I have read carefully the reasons why I was supposedly sent on suspension as Managing Director of the National Social Security Fund (NSSF). I admit that I am not perfect. Indeed, no one ever is. Yet my alleged faults are of a tactical, not a strategic …

By Patrick Kagenda When Housing Finance Bank last week signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Royal Palm Estates to offer mortgages to its clients to buy houses in Butabika, a Kampala city suburb, the housing sector got a rare buzz. Interested buyers of the houses still have to fork …

By Independent Team The money will be used to strengthen its balance sheet and fund investment in its oil discoveries and prospects in Ghana and Uganda. January is turning out to be Tullow Oil’s best month. In a space of two weeks it has struck the biggest oil well in …

By Patrick Kagenda Kenya, Uganda governments stuck with bad concession over legal complications When it was signed in November 2006, the Uganda and Kenya governments’25-year concession to Rift Valley Railways (RVR) to run the operations of the Uganda Railway Corporation and the Kenya Railway Corporation was hailed as the “deal …

By G. Pascal Zachary In a dusty remote village in eastern Uganda, I stare across a mud-hut at a retired government worker who echoes the millions of people across of Africa, young and old, women and men, who want Barack Obama, the next American president, to be their leader too. …

By John Njoroge The Independents John Njoroge spoke to the outgoing US Ambassador to Uganda Mr. Stephen Browning on what the election of President Obama means to Africa and the world. The election of Obama has brought hope and excitement worldwide. Will the Obama presidency fulfill these expectations especially as …

By Charles Onyango-Obbo A Ugandan analysts whose views I respect, told me recently that the ‘Opposition to the [President Yoweri] Museveni is getting exhausted, and it would seem many people now believe he cannot be removed’. He anticipated that while Museveni’s rule is discredited daily by corruption and incompetence, and …

By Agnes Asiimwe Government is helpless as Ugandans are out-competed, investors bring their staff, senior posts held by foreigners Two years from now, if negotiations succeed, the East African Community Common Market Protocol should come in force on January 1, 2010. The protocol will allow free movement of services, capital, …

By Patrick Kagenda & John Njoroge Weak company law fails to protect the poor and gullible from fake saving schemes To Gauda Tushabomwe, it seemed like a brilliant way to invest her money. Tushabomwe, at the time an accountant with Kabale Diocese, was introduced to a microfinance organisation called COWE …