In The Magazine

By Haggai Matsiko Could he be conning the world again? Recent claims that rebel war-leader Joseph Kony is in surrender talks with his handlers in the Central African Republic (CAR) have sparked optimism, pessimism, and deja vu. The claims erupted after CAR’s interim-President, Michel Djotodia, announced that Kony, who has …

By Agencies WHO released its first adolescent-specific care guidelines ahead of World AIDS Day on Dec. 1 The number of adolescents infected by the HIV virus has jumped by one third over the past decade, the UN’s health agency said Monday, blaming gaps in care programmes.  “More than 2 million …

Watching sport can make you fitter, according to research that said viewing other people exercise increases heart rate and other physiological measures as if you were working out yourself.  The study, published in the international journal Frontiers in Autonomic Neuroscience, showed that when watching a first person video of someone …

By Julius Businge A new survey released by the World Bank and other partners- Uganda Service Delivery Indicators (SDI) indicates that Uganda is still failing to achieve optimal performance in schools and health centres. The Independent’s Julius Businge interviewed Ritva Reinikka, the World Bank’s director for Human Resource Development for …

By Andrew M. Mwenda Why Parliament and government should be kept out of business to allow private investors to deliver electricity Two weeks ago, an ad hoc committee of parliament recommended government cancels its contract with Umeme for the distribution of electricity in the country. The committee raises many complaints …

By Darius Mans How Africare, ExxonMobil and the NBA are using sports to empower African youth for success in life Growing up in Detroit, Michigan, I was fairly sure I’d never make it as a basketball star. I played for my high school team, but most of the time my …

By Michael Buteera Mugisha No country has developed economically without the governments actively setting the right fundamentals for growth Andrew’s article titled; “Inside the fair trade movement”, carefully exposes the potential pitfalls of fair trade but does little to offer any reasonable or relevant solutions to our biggest development challenges. …

By The Independent Team In the Hague, the International Criminal Court (ICC) has reversed a ruling that allowed Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta to attend only parts of his trial in The Hague. Kenyatta’s trial begins in February and his lawyers argued that attending the trial would prevent him from governing …

By Independent Team The former chairman of the Kenya –Students Council Uganda Silas Maka Otuke has threatened to mobilize former Kenyan students in Uganda to burn education transcripts attained from Ugandan institutions if relevant authorities fail to handle well a case in which Kampala University is involved. Otuke says KU’s …

By The Independent Team The Kampala City Mayor Erias Lukwago has this morning been voted out of office. In a special council meeting that was hurriedly held at City Hall on Monday morning chaired by Frank Tumwebaze the minister of the Presidency and the Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA), 29 …