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Massive infrastructure development alone without well trained and skilled personnel will not help the country achieve desired economic growth targets. Kampala, Uganda | PATRICIA AKANKWATSA AND JULIUS BUSINGE | This was the message directed to the government during the recently concluded infrastructure conference in Kampala titled ‘infrastructure and human capital …

  INSURANCE AND MOBILE PHONES: Policymakers across the region need to implement policies and practices that stimulate growth Kampala, Uganda | ISAAC KHISA | The Sub-Saharan African region is set to be the hotbed for mobile phone services as the young population owns more devices in the next six years. …

Atim Ogwal Cecilia Barbara commonly known as Cecilia Ogwal is the District Woman Representative for Dokolo District and member of the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) party. She spoke to The Independent’s Julianne Sabiiti about Uganda’s 57th Independence Anniversary. What memories do you have of the pre-independence era and where …

Real estate experts react on the Electrical Plaza near Nakasero Market Kampala, Uganda | JULIUS BUSINGE | Plot 11, Market Street and Kiyembe Lane in Kampala Central District have changed their physical face following the official opening of a new commercial building – Electrical Plaza. It joins a list of …

For the first time, a reliable count on how many fatalities AMISOM has suffered | PAUL D. WILLIAMS | New evidence has made possible a more accurate estimate of how many African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) personnel have died since the mission deployed in March 2007. My previous report …

In 2016 many spent Shs500m -1bn Kampala, Uganda | RONALD MUSOKE | Money–and a lot of it this time—will be the choice campaigning tool for both incumbents and challengers in the 2021 presidential and parliamentary polls, according to a study by the Alliance for Campaign Finance Monitoring-Uganda. The civil society …

  Uganda’s Who-is-Who live in fear of US travel ban Kampala, Uganda | IAN KATUSIIME | As if U.S. sanctions slapped on President Yoweri Museveni’s former right hand man, Gen. Kale Kayihura for his role as Inspector of General of Police were not bad enough, another top government official, Pius …

Why her success at democratisation is a result of the absence of foreign interference in her politics THE LAST WORLD | ANDREW M. MWENDA | This week Tunisians voted in the second parliamentary elections since the 2011 Arab Spring. Over 15,000 candidates vied for the 217 parliamentary seats. There was …

Scientists trying to understand what role sex plays Four scientists: Professors Andrew L. Webb, Brayden G. Schindell,   Jason Kindrachuk, and    Jia B. Kangbai have noted one area in the spread of the Ebola hemorrhagic fever that requires further study. It is the Ebola virus’ persistence in the reproductive systems of …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Minister of State for Primary Education, Rosemary Seninde has said that all school going children using boda bodas as a means of transport must put on helmets to avoid negative effects of road accidents. She was speaking at the ‘Heads Up initiative’ a …