COMMENT | Hillary Turyatunga | Uganda’s efforts to join the Extractives Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) that were first expressed in the 2008 National Oil and gas policy recently saw Uganda joining the initiative, making it the 54th country in the world and 26th in Africa to subscribe. EITI is a …
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A peep into a powerful treatise that people in the free market movement need to ponder over THE LAST WORD | ANDREW M. MWENDA | Few books have gripped me as did Thomas Piketty’s economics blockbuster, Capital in the Twenty First Century. Published in 2015, I took long to read it …
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Why it’s important for the army or the government to tell the story of its transformation THE LAST WORD | ANDREW M. MWENDA | Next year, the Uganda Peoples’ Defense Forces (UPDF) will mark three major milestone dates. It will be exactly 50 years (Golden Jubilee) since its formation under …
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COMMENT | Michael Jjingo | Certainly, the best innovations are created in response to specific, urgent, and significant problems, with a long-term focus. In some ways, the Covid-19 crisis has made our most urgent problems and their potential solutions more obvious. For example, health care providers needed masks; some …
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Why those who want change in Uganda need to think much more creatively about what it means THE LAST WORD | Andrew Mwenda | Nearly two years since Gen. Omar El Bashir was removed from power through a popular uprising, Sudan is tottering on the edge of collapse. The government …
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THE LAST WORD: The real story of how teachers’ money was stolen and how the wrong guys were framed and jailed THE LAST WORD | Andrew M. Mwenda | On September 9, all major news outlets in Uganda ran a screaming headline: `Microfinance Support Centre officials charged with embezzlement’. It …
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The amazing story of the Rwenzori Mountains COMMENT | By Amos Wekesa | In the last thee weeks, we have seen lots of updates on Rwenzori Mountains on different platforms, and we must give credit to the Mountain Slayers…. The ‘Mountains slayers’ aren’t your usual slay queens and slay kings, but are …
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If this commission was not intended to mollify the bad situation, it is a landmark report that should be implemented by any progressive and revolutionary government. COMMENT | Gyagenda Semakula Zikusooka | On September 2, 2020 just 35 days after Justice Catherine Bamugemereire handed over her 750-page report to President …
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Bank of Uganda should utilize its mandate to regulate spending during 2021 electoral processes COMMENT | Fred Kasalirwe | The recently concluded National Resistance Movement (NRM) primaries have seen massive monetization of the electoral processes with huge sums of money seen exchanging hands to influence voters’ decisions. If this is just …
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COMMENT | Lamunu Petronilla | Voices in favour of a complete shift to renewable energy have gained momentum all over the world. This has been precipitated by the low carbon emissions observed globally due to the stay-home decrees and decreased air and land travels imposed during the COVID-19 pandemic. Evidence points …
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