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By kabona esiara Rwanda switches to digital broadcasting in January 2011 The National Bureau for Information (ORINFOR) monopoly on the television broadcast industry in Rwanda has come to an end. By next year, a second signal distributor for terrestrial digital broadcast network will be licensed. The development brings in competition …

By matthew stein New report questions Rwanda-DRC strategy in the Kivu Rape. Violence. Displacement. Minerals. Pillaging. These are all words that have become synonymous with the relentless conflict in the Kivu region of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). In 2006, the U.N. estimated that 27,000 sexual assaults had taken …

By Andrew M. Mwenda & Eriasa mukiibi sserunjogi President asks for more money for State House, Defence, Police On Dec. 8 President Yoweri Museveni and his cabinet met. On the agenda was one item; passing a request for supplementary budgets for State House, Ministry of Defense, Uganda Police and President’s …

By Dicta Assimwe IGG Bakus critics say releasing yet another report is pointless When the Acting Inspector General of Government (IGG) Raphael Baku released a new report on Nov. 18, he ironically was the first to throw mud at it. He derogatively described his statutory biannual Report to Parliament January …

By Andrew .M.Mwenda The 2011 elections are being contested against the background of an almost virtual collapse of the public spirit in Uganda. With our infrastructure and public services largely malfunctioning, with corruption the key organising principle of power, and with nepotism and personalism dominating our lives, we must ask …

By Yusuf k. Serunkuma The battle to shape the future of Africa’s politics; put its growth on the correct line and ensure the security of its future generations is one filled with trials and tribulations.  January 2011 will see Africa’s largest country, Sudan; get divided into two fragile dominions. (The …

By Marjoke A.Oosterom Acholi man says of President Museveni: “If you have many children, you cannot love all of them equally”, another wants to vote for the World Food Programme instead I am a development researcher based in the Acholi sub-region of northern Uganda. Recently, I was taken aback when …

By the independent team & agencies Rwandan President Paul Kagame arrived in Brussels over the weekend at the head of a large delegation for a four-day state visit to Belgium, the government said on Monday, Dec.6. An official statement from the President’s Office in Kigali said attended the fifth edition …

By Independent Team & Agencies Rwanda’s child policies praised in new Africa report A new report launched Dec. 6 by the African Child Policy Forum (ACPF) has listed Rwanda among countries committed to investing in children. The report measures African government’s investment in children and confirms that a country’s commitment …

By eriasa mukiibi sserunjigi On Dec. 20, President Yoweri Museveni will take his re-election campaign to Kamuli district, home to three important members of his government. There will be no controversy around Deputy Speaker of Parliament Rebecca Kadaga, who is looking to retain her seat as district Woman MP on …