By Julius Odeke The Japanese Government on Tuesday April 30 announced it was providing a total of US Dollars 21.2 million to four UN agencies to support their collective response to the refugee situation in South-west Uganda, as well as the critical climate-related health, nutrition, water and sanitation challenges affecting …
Read More »Chinese firm warns Uganda on Karuma
By Joan Akello `We will punish you’ Energy officials accused of eating bribes In the March issue of the international business magazine, Forbes, the billionaire Sudhir Ruparelia is asked in an interview what he thinks is the biggest weakness of the Uganda economy. Sudhir answers: “The left doesn’t know what …
Read More »Western impressions, African perceptions
By Andrew M. Mwenda How our admiration of Western systems has more do with how it perceives itself than the reality of its being I still cannot explain what got into my head recently to re-read William Shirer’s, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, a 1,200 pages tour …
Read More »Uhuru Kenyatta unveils cabinet nominees
By The Independent Team President Kenyatta along with his deputy William Ruto today unveiled the full list of their nominees to the Cabinet. However in a move that is likely to surprise many of his supporters Mr. Ruto had earlier mentioned that there would not be any other politicians in …
Read More »Dfcu suspends trading on Ugandan stock market
By Julius Businge Dfcu bank has suspended its trading for four weeks on the Uganda Securities Exchange (USE) to pave way for Commonwealth Development Corporation (CDC) to sell part of its shares in the bank, an official note released on April 22 in a local daily news paper reads. CDC …
Read More »EAC currencies steady
By Julius Businge The three East African currencies of Kenaya, Uganda and Tanzania remained steady trading a narrow range throughout the week ending March 23. “It was a sideways market for most of the trading sessions of the week with no uptrend or downtrend clearly established,” said Stephen Kaboyo a …
Read More »President Museveni hails late Mallinga for his hard work
By Julius Odeke President Yoweri Museveni has described the late minister for Disaster Preparedness Steven Mallinga as a hardworking man. The President was speaking on Thursday as the chief mourner during the funeral ceremony of the Late Minister Mallinga in Butebo where thousands of people from the country and beyond …
Read More »Uganda, Sudan enter arms race
By Haggai Matsiko Museveni doubles military expenditure, cuts education budget The budget increase in Uganda’s military expenditure even amidst global and regional defence cuts might be the latest indication of President Museveni’s strategy to fasten his grip on power and his influence on the region. As recent events have showed, …
Read More »NRM and its rebel MPs
By Andrew M. Mwenda How party’s tolerance of rebel MPs was typical of its tolerance of other ills and a danger to democracy Finally, the NRM decided to expel it’s so called “rebel MPs”. Many critics of President Yoweri Museveni and the NRM have denounced this decision. The MPs themselves …
Read More »Prof Kanyeihamba on team to mediate Malawi-Tanzania border dispute
By Ronald Musoke The Forum for former African Heads of State and Government has co-opted Prof George W. Kanyeihamba to support a high level team mandated by the African Union to mediate in the border dispute between Malawi and Tanzania. The forum led by the former Mozambican president Joachim Chissano …
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