In The Magazine

By Keith Muhakanizi The author of the article titled ‘A country adrift, a president amiss, the government fails yet again to defeat the Lord’s Resistance Army,’ in your issue of February 14 draws nefarious assertions on the state of Uganda and how President Museveni is ostensibly adrift, because of reneging …

By Onghwens Kisangala Prof. Patrick Rubaihayo was MP for Mbarara Central and Minister for Agriculture and Forestry in the 1981 “ 85 Obote government. He currently trains junior lecturers and supervises post-graduate students at Makerere University’s Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry. He has been around both as an active player …

By Andrew M. Mwenda President Yoweri Museveni claims he appointed his wife as state minister for Karamoja because ‘elites’ were rejecting the job (never mind only one person, Tom Butiime, turned it down). He also justified the appointment of his family members, e.g. his brother, Salim Saleh, to government positions …

By John Njoroge & Obed Katureebe President Museveni lays trap that will finish off the opposition In June 2008 the Ugandan government proposed an amendment to the 2005 Political Parties and Organisations Act to provide for public funding of registered political parties. The amendment declared that funds would be allocated …

By Caroline Kasondondo Your persistence of writing about the first family and those remotely related to them has not only bred sectarianism among Ugandans, but has caused unnecessary antipathy yet in actual sense it is just an illusion. Timothy Kalyegira, in his article ‘The dynamics behind Museveni’s family rule,’justified why …

By Jeffrey Love Five markets have burned in Uganda in the past two weeks. Two dozen schools have been reduced to embers in the past month. Three buildings have recently collapsed in the capital. Hundreds of Ugandans are dead, billions of shillings lost, and a government is thoroughly embarrassed. Theories …

By Independent Team Between April 7, 2008 and March 11, 2009, there have been at least 95 fire incidents in schools all over the country, according to police statistics. In the last three months alone, at least seven schools and six markets have been set on fire with varying degree …

By Patrick Kagenda   Harshad Barot is the owner of the Ovino market, one of the most modern and biggest markets in Uganda, and a chain of other real estate developments, including apartments Kampala, Bugolobi, and Nkumba and Tirupati recreational Park at Jinja, whose construction is ongoing. The Independents Patrick …

By Agnes Asiimwe Scientists excited about a very promising trial A powerful new HIV prevention tool may be on the horizon.  Scientists are saying they could be on the verge of ascertaining whether taking anti-retroviral drugs before exposure to HIV could be an effective prevention tool. The Pre-exposure prophalyxis (PrEP) …

By Andrew M. Mwenda Charles Onyango-Obbo disagrees with my argument that multiple checks and balances on tendering and contracting in Uganda tend to increase rather than reduce corruption. His arguments are convincing theoretically but wrong empirically. I am hostile to the current obsession by many people in this country with …