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By Agather Atuhaire Scholars warn of more protests if dialogue does not replace repression of opposition As hard economic times bite and it looks like President Yoweri Museveni has decided to become more repressive instead of trying to democratise a hungry nation, agitation is increasing for national dialogue. That is …

By Joseph Were Defending him has shredded the President’s armour of invincibility and unleashed the virus that will destroy him Prof. Waswa Balunywa of the Makerere University Business School in Kampala has entrenched views about the role of leadership that he likes to encapsulate in a single mantra; “leaders are …

By Bob Kasango Their `century’ shouldn’t be perceived as the end of men On Sept. 21 Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff became the first woman ever to give the opening speech at UN General Assembly session. She called this ‘the century of women’. Barely a fortnight later, three women won the …

By Andrew M. Mwenda The folly and delusions of a nation that has forgotten the concerns of its ordinary citizens And so it was that on Nov. 4, I flew to New York City from London via Amsterdam. Upon landing at JFK International Airport, I entered the longest queue in …

By Haggai Matsiko American group shows how torturing Besigye could affect the President At 25 years in power, Yoweri Museveni is the fifth longest president in Africa and pressure is mounting on him to quit. In the latest salvo, a November 11 report by an American democracy analysis group, the …

By Haggai Matsiko Makerere University, the Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development and the French Embassy held an international Conference on Land Policies in East Africa that brought many scholars. The Independent’s Haggai Matsiko spoke to Prof Maurice N. Amutabi of the Catholic University of Eastern Africa about land …

By Mukiibi Sserunjogi Have judges resorted to ‘judicial activism’ to address election rigging? Before the High Court session that is currently hearing election petitions arising out of the February elections opened, few politicians had faith in resorting to courts if they felt their votes were stolen. One of the pessimists …

By Rukiya Makuma What next after opposition leaders are accused of failure to organise? On Oct. 16, a day before what Walk to Work organisers promised would be a massive resumption of the protests that paralysed the country in April, the Jinja highway was crowded with police patrol cars zooming …

By Andrew M. Mwenda How politicians and civil servants use Museveni as a cover to make payments to claimants from which they earn huge commissions At the height of his power, Marshal Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire appeared as if he was in complete control of the country and its …

By Andrew M. Mwenda The new rules are regressive because they do not seek to get money from the thieves per se, but to tax those thieves who want to invest In July this year, Uganda Revenue Authority introduced new rules on transferring or registering property (cars and houses). Under …