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COMMENT | Alfred Geresom Musamali | It was tough going through the two years of lockdown resulting from the Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic in Uganda. But some households that survived the lockdown may not live through the prevailing financial one in the country. During some of that time, movement …

Why efforts to export liberal democracy abroad are likely to undermine it at home – in the West THE LAST WORD | ANDREW M. MWENDA | On September 25th, Italy held an election, which was won by the center-right coalition led by Giorgia Melon’s Brothers of Italy, a radical right-wing political …

COMMENT | Alfred Geresom Musamali | Few people have felt the personal pain of missing a national examination like I did in November, 1973. I was blocked from sitting the Primary Leaving Examination (PLE) due to a disagreement between my parents and the headteacher of the then Nyondo Boys’ Demonstration School …

COMMENT | Denis Jjuuko – #OutToLunch |  In early 1983, the Catholic Church in Uganda set up a scheme that targeted the majority of Ugandans — folks in rural areas, the majority of which were unbanked. Ten years later, the scheme turned into a commercial bank that still largely caters …

In his article, Oboth was insensitive to the feelings of our other ethnic groups such as the Banyole, Bagwere, Basamia, Iteso and Bagisu who consider Tororo equally their ancestral town. COMMENT | Alfred Geresom Musamali | In his article entitled “Tororo must start thinking big,” published in The Independent Magazine website recently, Jackson …

  COMMENT | Jackson Oboth |  I recently had what I would like to call a rediscovery mission in Tororo. A one-week stay in our beloved ‘Rock Town’ opened my eyes to many things. Today, I will focus my comment on one aspect of our town – the development agenda of …

Why I think Singapore would have transformed even with a less able leader THE LAST WORD | Andrew M. Mwenda | There is a widespread myth that Lee Kuan Yew, the legendary prime minister of Singapore from 1959 to 1990, was singularly responsible for the transformation of that island city-state …

What has the fighting been about? And why? What does this recent truce mean for Ethiopia, Tigray and conflict participants like Eritrea? Lagos, Nigeria | RICHARD ALI – BIRD AGENCY | The Ethiopian conflict centred on the Tigray region has concerned African security watchers since November 2020, when the fighting …

In Africa, we believe what we see, not what we hear COMMENT | YOWERI KAGUTA MUSEVENI | News from Europe that a vast windfarm is being demolished to make way for a new open-pit coal mine is the reprehensible double standard we in Africa have come to expect. As Europeans …

  In Rwanda’s case, here was a man (Kagame) willing to impose harsh discipline on his lieutenants. They were willing to accept it because the alternative of living forever as refugees was not appealing to most of them THE LAST WORD | ANDREW M MWENDA | Post genocide Rwanda is …