By Haggai Matsiko Can the opposition build enough muscle to change its poll-predicted fate in 2016? It is only 18 months to 2016 when Uganda goes to the next polls. Yet while President Yoweri Museveni, hit the campaign for these polls as early as 2012, not much has been going …
Read More »Who developed South Korea?
By Andrew M. Mwenda The problem is that economists, journalists, politicians, analysts, and everyone else think they know I am writing this article from Seoul, the capital of South Korea. Sitting on the reading table in my suite in my hotel, I can see through the window a forest of …
Read More »H.E. Yoweri Kaguta Museveni On Election Rigging in Uganda
H.E. Yoweri Kaguta Museveni PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF UGANDA On Election Rigging in Uganda 1961 – 2014 25th May, 2014 As soon as the Universal elective processes were introduced in Uganda, the shallow opportunists immediately hatched two schemes of winning power against the democratic phenomena. One scheme was sectarianism …
Read More »2014/2015 budget pain
By Independent Team As Museveni’s election cash is set to flow again The forthcoming 2014/2015 budget is set to Finance Minister Maria Kiwanuka’s first election budget. She faces a common dilemma; uncontrolled public spending on elections, which requires an uncommon response; tough controls, especially on the foreign reserves. Of course, …
Read More »Recapturing professional journalism
By Andrew M. Mwenda What the new executive editor at Daily Monitor is doing and what it means for our profession The new Executive Editor at Daily Monitor, Malcolm Gibson, has begun a very important conversation about journalism at that newspaper which may be important for our industry generally. He …
Read More »ICTs critical in spearheading Africa’s growth, Ssekandi
By Julius Businge Information and communication technologies have a key role in contributing towards positive socio-economic growth for Africa, according to Uganda’s Vice President, Edward Kiwanuka Ssekandi. Ssekandi was speaking at the opening plenary of e-learning Africa 2014 conference held in Kampala on May 28. He said Uganda has identified …
Read More »Lessons from Umeme’s SPO
By Andrew M. Mwenda Why Uganda should move to privatise NSSF and other remaining publically owned or supervised enterprises Last week, Umeme issued a Secondary Public Offering (SPO) on the Uganda Securities Exchange (USE) to institutional investors (individual investors have their turn this week). The response by the market has …
Read More »Has Museveni lost Luwero?
By Patrick Kagenda Fight for May 22 by-election win shows President’s desperation When President Yoweri Museveni and his NRA rebels captured power in 1986, Brenda Nabukenya was a two-year old toddler in Luwero where most of the war of `liberation’ was fought. She turned 18 years-old in 2002 and, therefore, …
Read More »The paradox of Uganda’s politics
By Andrew M. Mwenda How Museveni has centralised and personalised while at the same time decentralised and institutionalised it with the help of his opponents Last week, a very successful Ugandan businessman invited me visit a big project he is doing in collaboration with the government on one of its …
Read More »HIV activists urging Museveni to veto HIV law
By Joan Akello The activists say criminalisation is counterproductive to HIV prevention strategies as it will serve only to target, persecute and punish people living with HIV. This is after members of parliament passed the HIV Prevention and Management Bill 2010 on May 13. “Uganda is already facing a serious …
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