In The Magazine

By Julius Businge World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim has said that he would direct more funding to fragile and conflict-affected states in a bid to fight poverty among the people, he said in a statement released on Oct. 1. Extreme poverty was “the defining moral issue of our …

By Julius Businge The 21st Uganda International Trade Fair opens tomorrow (Oct. 2) and will run up to Oct. 10 at Uganda Manufacturers Association show grounds under the theme “Accelerating Trade and Industrial Growth”. The fair is organized by Uganda Manufacturers Association, the umbrella body for all manufacturers in Uganda. …

By Stephen kafeero Uganda has been selected to host the Rotary International Presidential Africa Youth Conference (RIPAY) 2013 from 4th -5th November. The conference will be hosted by Rotary International President Ron D Burton and will be held at hotel Africana under the theme “Engage Rotary Change Lives: Taking change …

By Andrew M. Mwenda How the US president has swallowed his idealism and transformed from a critic of his Ugandan counterpart into an ally Barack Obama’s election as president of the United States in 2008 was a moment of great hope. It is difficult to recapture the emotional tone of …

By Stephen Kafeero Should government fear nurses, police, army? When Maj. Jessica Alupo, who is the minister of Education and Sports, famously failed to say which team the Uganda football team faced when it travelled the Moroccan city of Marrakesh as part of its 2014 Football World Cup qualification campaign, …

By Barbara Unmuessig Putting a price tag on ecosystem services could lead to adverse financialisation of nature Today, few people retain any illusions that United Nations conventions like the Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Convention on Biological Diversity can avert global warming, the loss of biodiversity, and the …

By Henry I. Miller Some regard it as necessary to reduce health disparities, but for others it is discriminatory Race can undoubtedly be a tricky subject, with any suggestion of genetic differences among racial groups – beyond superficial characteristics like skin color – potentially invoking memories of the nineteenth-century eugenics …

By Stephen Kafeero Jason Drew is an ‘Environmental Capitalist,’ he is the author of The Protein Crunch and The Story Of The Fly and How It could Save The World. He spoke to The Independent’s Stephen Kafeero about his passion for businesses that are environment friendly. For starters who is …

By Silver Bugingo Disguised xenophobia against presumed Rwandans has put their alliance under the spotlight When Joseph Kabila, (apparently, upon advice from Jakaya Kiwete and Jocob Zuma) convinced the UN Security Council to establish a “Special Intervention Brigade” to the DRC Eastern Juggles, it was like a soccer hat-trick score …

By Joseph Bossa It would improve matters a bit if land registries desist from issuing multiple titles over one piece of land Despite numerous government interventions to stop them, evictions from land continue apace all over the country. Armed with guns, some land owners, usually new ones, chase occupants off …