By Andrew M. Mwenda Bin Laden argued that to end local tyranny, Muslims should fight American first; Cairo and Tunis proved him wrong On Monday, I walked into the studios of Capital FM for my morning radio show only to see breaking news on television that Osama Bin Laden had …
Read More »More Besigye trouble for Museveni
By eriasa mukiibi sserunjogi Security plan to isolate and humiliate FDC boss backfires The brutal arrest of opposition Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) leader Rtd. Col. Dr Kizza Besigye has plunged President Yoweri Museveni’s government into an unfavourable spotlight locally and internationally. Sensing this, the day after Besigye’s car was …
Read More »Museveni versus Besigye
By Andrew M. Mwenda Given that Besigye will not retreat, what are Museveni’s options? Last week on Thursday, the battle between police and Dr Kizza Besigye turned nasty. The police used harmers and guns to smash the windows of Besigye’s car, spray volumes of teargas and pepper-spray into his face, …
Read More »How Besigye entered CMI’s kill zone
By the independent team In war, it is called a kill zone. A pre-selected area into which an enemy is lured before being mowed down. Kampala Metropolitan Police Commander Grace Turyagumanawe’s carefully selected kill zone for opposition Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) leader Rtd. Col. Dr. Kizza Besigye was the …
Read More »The failures of Uganda’s democracy
By Andrew M. Mwenda Local councils have undermined the effectiveness of public administration without fostering the expected accountability dividend. In 2000, Frederick Golooba-Mutebi gave me a copy of his PhD thesis written at the London School of Economics titled “Decentralisation and Development Administration in Uganda.” It is a sobering account …
Read More »Museveni must fix economy by June
By independent reporters Review comes up in June, IMF blames crisis on reduced foreign reserves, high election spending, jets purchase. Food and fuel prices complicate plan As traders, religious leaders, students, and civil society organisations criticise the government’s reaction to the Walk-to-Work protests over high food and fuel prices, one …
Read More »Walk-to-Work: Police force creating accidental guerillas
By Bob A. Kasango Let us all know that injustice anywhere is ultimately injustice everywhere In the January 31, 2009 issue of Newsweek magazine, Fareed Zakaria wrote about how in May 2006, a unit of American soldiers in Afghanistan’s Uruzgan valley were engulfed in a ferocious fire fight with the …
Read More »Walk to war
By eriasa mukiibi sserunjogi Public anger greets Museveni even before he is sworn–in Opposition politicians have vowed to continue with their walk-to-work campaign despite arrests and violent break up of their protests by the police. Political pundits are puzzled on which direction the protests will take, especially in the run …
Read More »A glimpse into Libya’s future
By Andrew M. Mwenda Given Libya’s tribal cleavages, the contours of conflict will deepen ethnic tensions and threaten the institutional integrity of the state Now, the complexity of the political problems of Libya is becoming apparent. There is a lot of back and forth shift in fortunes between rebels and …
Read More »Finally, the opposition has a chance
By Andrew M. Mwenda Uganda is now caught up in the contradiction of extreme wealth alongside excessive poverty and extreme luxury alongside mass deprivation After a long period without any public issue around which to galvanise popular discontent in their favour, the opposition in Uganda has finally found one in …
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