By Ian Katusiime Former army commander Gen. Elly Tumwine, who is an army MP, spoke to The Independent’s Ian Katusiime. At 29, do you feel the NRM has achieved its liberations ideals from the Bush War? To answer that you have to look at what has happened, how it has …
Read More »EALA treaty needs reforms Speaker Kidega
By Dicta Asiimwe Dicta Asiimwe spoke to Dan Fred Kidega, the East African Legislative Assembly (EALA) speaker about his plans to tackle the challenges at the regional body. What is your plan for EALA? The first and most important thing is to unite the assembly. You see, what transpired in …
Read More »Uganda oil now for 2020
By Haggai Matsiko What did the country do wrong? When he arrived in Kampala from Paris in October 2014, the tough talking new Total E&P (Exploration and Production) boss Francois Rafin had one mission on hand; securing a production licence. Where the man he was replacing, Loic Laurandel, had cooed …
Read More »CSOs criticize move to export health workers
By Flavia Nassaka Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) have criticized the move by government through the ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of Health to export highly qualified health workers including psychiatrists, ophthalmologists and neurologists to a Caribbean country, Trinidad and Tobago. While speaking to journalists on Feb.05, Denis Odue, a …
Read More »Neck pain linked to smart phone technology
By Flavia Nassaka How much time do you spend on your phone? If you are a typical user, you must be increasingly replacing making calls with text messaging; especially with the new technologies offering countless messaging apps like whatsapp, viber, and Facebook. These offer such cheaper yet more efficient …
Read More »The pathologies of Uganda’s democracy
By Andrew M. Mwenda How it has facilitated a politics that has undermined the ability of public institutions to serve the common good To explain the dysfunctions in the public sector in Uganda, we need to understand how political power in our country is organised, how it is exercised and …
Read More »Kampala water scarcity
By Patrick Kagenda City taps to remain dry as NWSC battles self-inflicted problems Kampala city, which sits on the edge of the world’s second biggest fresh water body; Lake Victoria, is reeling from a water shortage reminiscent of the 1990s. Once again, queues of residents can be seen fetching water …
Read More »RwandAir launches Entebbe-Nairobi flights
By Julius Businge Rwanda’s home carrier, RwandAir has launched its daily flights to Nairobi from Entebbe; a move that officials said is a fulfillment of their expansion strategy in the region and beyond. Speaking at Entebbe International Airport, on Jan. 29, John Mirenge, the CEO of RwandAir said the …
Read More »Rethink free market on services
By Peter Nyanzi Poor regulation hampering Uganda’s anti-poverty, corruption fight Recently, two friends on Facebook posted updates which provoked intense debate. One was a scanned copy of a school fees bank slip, which indicated that the parent had paid Shs1.7 million for a Primary Six pupil. The other related to …
Read More »Davos oligarchs right to fear
By Seumas Milne Escalating inequality is the work of a global elite that will resist every challenge to its vested interests The billionaires and corporate oligarchs meeting in Davos recently were getting worried about inequality. It might be hard to stomach that the overlords of a system that has delivered …
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