LABOUR DAY 2021 🇺🇬 | As Uganda celebrates the International Labour Day on 1st May, the Uganda Registration Services Bureau (URSB) celebrates the Workers of Uganda for being the champions of our nation’s national development. At the national level, the theme earmarked for the International Labour day celebrations falls within …
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LABOUR DAY 2021 🇺🇬 | BY DAVID RUPINY |  Shillat Nambooze Kauma is a young graduate who, instead of looking for a job, opted to plunge right into the realm of entrepreneurship. Two years ago, Shillat and her friend set up Puristry, a firm that makes high-end cosmetics from shea butter. The …
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 Why she chose to base book on interviews with Kagame’s enemies but not give his side THE LAST WORD | ANDREW M. MWENDA | The fundamental error of Michela Wrong’s book was to listen to one side in the Rwandan story. Consequently, she ended up sanctifying Patrick Karegyeya and …
Read More »Michela Wrong’s Rwanda hatchet job part 2
She was taken for a ride by Karegyeya, Kayumba, Sendashonga’s wife and the entire group of anti-Kagame haters THE LAST WORD | ANDREW M. MWENDA | This is a second installment of my three-part review of Michela Wrong’s book, `Do Not Disturb’, about the murder of Patrick Karegyeya. Many readers …
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None of these vaccines has the ability to cause COVID-19 disease, but they may occasionally trigger side effects COVID-19 SPECIAL FEATURE |  Linda Geddes | Vaccines work by training the immune system to recognise a pathogen – such as the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19 – without making you …
Read More »Michela Wrong’s Rwanda hatchet job
How attempts to tarnish the name and record of Paul Kagame soils the reputation of a British journalist THE LAST WORD | ANDREW M. MWENDA | Finally, I have finished reading Michela Wrong’s 516 memoir of Patrick Karegyeya; a former Rwandan intelligence chief who was killed on or about New Year’s …
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What IMF figures on GPD growth in the world tell us about Uganda’s economic performance over time THE LAST WORD | ANDREW M. MWENDA | Recently I wrote to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to find out how Uganda’s economy has been performing over the last five years compared to …
Read More »The paradox Magufuli presidency
How fallen Tanzanian president was lionised by African elites for doing exactly what they always protest against THE LAST WORD | ANDREW M. MWENDA |Â Since his death, former Tanzanian President John Pombe Magufuli has been an object of much praise from many commentators, including a large number Tanzanians. While …
Read More »COMMENT: Why Washington is a human rights double-dealer
Social instability, COVID-19, and governmental nonfeasance have made the United States an abyss of human rights abuses Beijing, China | COMMENT – Xinhua |Â The fine gloss that Washington has tried to put on its tainted human rights record was once again removed as the Report on Human Rights Violations in …
Read More »KYENJOJO: Districts at the frontline of combating climate change effects
COMMENT |Â JOHN OKIIRA |Â Climate change remains one of the leading causes of devastation to our environment, accounting for a range of natural disasters and varying forms of vulnerabilities. From the shocks caused by the landslides in Bududa and Bundibugyo to the floods in Kasese and the rising levels of …
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