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By Independent Team Statistics show there is no money to be made there A boat carrying as many as 500 immigrants that sunk off the Italian Island of Lampedusa has sparked debate on why Africans appear determined to make such a foolhardy journey to get to Europe. At least 300 …

By Haggai Matsiko World Bank sucked into wrangle over compensation budget of Shs74 bn Battle lines have been drawn between the government on one hand and activists and locals over the compensation and resettlement of residents to be evicted to create space for oil refinery infrastructure in Hoima, western Uganda. …

By Agencies HIV/Aids experts says American recommendation is `immoral’ Activists in Uganda, where some 400 people are infected with HIV every day, have called on the government to rethink its dismissal of an emerging prevention protocol demonstrated to be effective in a trial conducted partly in Uganda, and which has …

By Andrew M. Mwenda Another look at Africa’s patron-client relations and the peasant moral universe Sometime in 2003, I visited the late former Zambian president Fredrick Chiluba at his palatial home in Lusaka’s rich suburb of Kablong and we sat down over a meal of rice, chapatti and wild game. …

By Agather Atuhaire & Joan Akella US$ 2 billion project starts with no signed contract? Will electricity finally get cheaper when the 600MW Karuma Hydropower Dam is completed sometime in 2018?Possibly not. But a lot depends on outcome of a meeting that took place in China on Sept.27 between a …

By Agencies New research shows you could have it and not even know it A study of more than 140,000 adults finds about half of people with high blood pressure — or hypertension — don’t have a clue they have the condition. That’s worrisome, according to the study’s authors, as …

By Peter Nyanzi Amb. Roberto Ridolfi, the outgoing European Union Head of Delegation to Uganda, headed for his new role as the Director for Sustainable Growth and Development at the EU headquarters in Brussels.  He spoke to Peter Nyanzi in an exclusive interview about his stay in Uganda and its …

By Ben Rawlence The Westgate attack should spur Kenya’s leaders to re-think their approach toward Somalia The attack that killed more than 70 people at Nairobi’s Westgate shopping mall on Sept.21 was, according to al-Shabaab, the Somali Islamist militant group that carried it out, retribution for Kenya’s intervention in Somalia. …

By Bob Kasango Such attacks show why the world must widen the frontiers of freedom and promote democracy In May 2011, soon after the killing of the leader of Al Qaeda, Osama Bin Laden, in Pakistan by US Special Forces, the Economist Magazine ran a special feature titled, “Now, kill …

By Haggai Matsiko Kabila’s European allies have eyes on country’s mineral wealth The Kampala talks between the DR Congo government and the M23 rebel group might collapse if Kinshasa’s new internationally-powered attitude and that of her backers does not change. Collapse of talks in Kampala, many observers fear, will spark …