By The Independent Team President Yoweri Museveni has projected Uganda’s economic growth to be as high as 7.5% in the year ending June 30, according to a statement issued by the government Media Centre President. Mr Museveni based his projections on improved exports performance and investment in energy industries. “While …
Read More »Iraq guards: The price of Hopelessness
By Patrick Kagenda On November 3, 2008, Arthur Asiimwe Kirimani 25 was on his way to Baghdad Airport to board a plane that would return him to Uganda after a 10-month service with a private American security firm EODT. The firm that is stationed at Forward Operating Base in northern …
Read More »Uganda’s elite and the lost hope of its citizens
By Tony Okao Otoa Jr One of my favourite Shakespeare plays is the one about Julius Caesar. The thing about this play that really makes me overly amazed is the ignorance of the leaders at the time and the intrigue and backstabbing that follows at the end. However my most …
Read More »My enemies can wait till I am 70 – Mubajje
By Obed K. Katureebe & John Njoroge Mufti of Uganda Sheikh Ramadhan Mubajje is facing a crisis as a section of his followers are set to elect a rival mufti come February 2009. The group led by among others former Mufti, Sheikh Obed Kamulegeya, accuse him of financial impropriety when …
Read More »19 ministers Ugandans don’t want
The Independent Team As the scent of an impending reshuffle of President Yoweri Museveni’s cabinet persists, The Independent conducted a random survey of the public rating of the current cabinet. In a startling finding, the survey revealed an increasing clamour for a complete overhaul of up to three-quarters of Museveni’s …
Read More »Decisive economic policies needed to avoid recession
By Geoffrey Onegi-Obel Limitations of the government’s `resource envelop’ budget driven response to the global economic slowdown including its impact on Uganda’s job creation, domestic savings and domestic direct investment We are already being dragged down by the world wide economic recession. How Uganda comes out of it is a …
Read More »The economy in 2009: Growth could slow down, poverty reduce
By Independent Team Economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa is expected to moderate in the face of the financial turmoil, especially as terms of trade gains from the surge of commodity prices moderate. Overall, growth is projected to decline from 7% in “07 to 6% in 2008-09. South Africa, the region’s …
Read More »Rwanda for full Congo solution
By The Independent Reporter Statement by the government of Rwanda on the report of the UN group of experts on the Democratic Republic of Congo The Government of Rwanda expresses its deep disappointment at the report of the UN Group of Experts, which contains dangerous inaccuracies and outright lies. This …
Read More »Acholi land next point of hostility
By Roland Atinkson On 30 November, Joseph Kony failed ” once again ” to sign the Final Peace Agreement negotiated in Juba between the LRA/M rebels and the Government of Uganda (GoU). The absence of Kony’s signature (and, thus, that of President Museveni), worries many in Acholi, and has contributed …
Read More »Sam Kutesa: The king of Sembabule losing his throne?
By Independent Reporter President Yoweri Museveni may have to visit Sembabule to try and quell the political fever that is once again engulfing that young district amid squabbling by factions of his NRM party. This follows the Supreme Court ruling of November 10 that dismissed yellow girl Hanifa Kawooya from …
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