COLUMNISTS

By Andrew M. Mwenda Although Obama behaved better in Nairobi compared to Accra, here is why I still have a bone to pick with him So finally, U.S. President Barak Obama visited his ancestral homeland of Kenya to a rousing welcome. This was understandable because for most of recorded history …

By Flavia Nassaka But more conflicts feared as party fails to resolve feuds Katomi Kingdom Resort hotel, near Entebbe town, on the shores of Lake Victoria was on July 24 bathed in a sea of green and white, the colours of Uganda’s oldest party, the Democratic Party, which was holding …

By Agather Atuhaire Activists should not have expected much from Parliament If civil society organisations and the opposition still had any hopes left for electoral reforms, they were this July dashed by the report of Parliament’s Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee on the Constitutional Amendment Bill. The Bill attracted criticism …

By Dr Geoffrey A Onegi-Obel Obama, the 6th Global Entrepreneurship Summit in Kenya, and Uganda’s fate in America’s Africa Economic Transformation Initiatives On July 24 over 280 world-class investors looking for opportunities descend on the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, for the 6th Global Entrepreneurship Summit [GES] from July 25-26 headlined by …

By Yoga Adhola Fixation on removing Museveni from power confirms FDC as a one-agenda party While I have always believed that FDC is a one-agenda party, I had never got the evidence to speak out; however, on July 7, The Daily Monitor published the evidence. In an article, “I will …

By Andrew M. Mwenda Why Rwanda should follow the judgment or misjudgment of its citizens rather than the dictates of theory In mid-July, the World Economic Forum (WEF) published its Global Competitiveness Report where it listed Rwanda as having the 7th most efficiently ran government in the world. It was …

By Agather Atuhaire Museveni likely to wholly take over 10th parliament When Local Government Minister Adolf Mwesige presented a motion for parliament to approve the creation of 39 new constituencies on July 15, many were shocked that President Museveni ignored public outcry over the bloated parliament which is putting an …

By Andrew M. Mwenda How political debate is divorced from our revenue and skills reality on state delivery of public goods and services When I was in boarding secondary school in the late 1980s and early 1990s, we used to eat maize porridge every morning for breakfast, posho and boiled …

By Haggai Matsiko Ruling party set to pick flag bearer early October When Tanga Odoi, the electoral commission chairman of the ruling party on July.10 launched the National Resistance Movement (NRM) party’s electoral road map for party structures, he officially launched what is expected to be one of the fiercest …

By Patrick Kagenda UPC cabinet As UPC continues to grapple with an internal revolt, especially among the senior party faithful, Jimmy Akena who was recently declared party president at the Delegate’s Consultative Meeting held in Kampala at the beginning of July has now gone ahead to announce his cabinet that …