In The Magazine

By Agnes E. Nantaba Is the push to enforce new `Buy Uganda, Build Uganda’ policy good for business? As Uganda’s manufacturing sector grows, local producers have hatched a policy to compel the government, through its agencies, to buy locally made products.  Dubbed ‘Buy Uganda Build Uganda’ (BUBU), the new policy …

By Stephen Christian Kaheru Governance underpins our collective responsibility to make roads safer A few months ago, Citizen TV of Kenya reported that over 100 pedestrians had been arrested in Nairobi’s industrial area and arraigned in court for failing to use foot bridges. Although this confounded road users in Kenya, …

By Morrison Rwakakamba High water prices and top heavy mechanistic policies are hurting lives in rural communities Over Christmas festivities in Rukungiri district, I conducted a few town hall meetings and village fireplace conversations with real people to discuss issues in their midst. It was sort of an immersion into …

By Ronald Musoke Eng. Badru Kiggundu, the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission, talked to Ronald Musoke. What should Ugandans expect from the EC in 2015 in terms of preparations for next year’s general elections? 2015 is going to be a loaded year. We should have already done the amendments [for] …

By Haggai Matsiko It is afternoon on Jan.3 at State House Entebbe. President Yoweri Museveni is in one of the conference rooms in the southern wing next to his residential quarters facing Entebbe International Airport. He is all dressed up in a suit and favourite dotted yellow necktie and it …

By The  Independent Team (Washington, DC, January 7, 2015) – A commander of the rebel group the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) has been taken into custody by US military forces, according to news reports. The US State Department indicated that a man who identified himself as Dominic Ongwen, the commander, …

By Andrew M. Mwenda How the West has built a global incentive system that sustains a negative narrative against Africa Steve Biko once said the greatest weapon in the hands of an oppressor is not his armies and arms but the mind of the oppressed. Antonio Gramsci had made a …

By Morris DC Komakech Trends in opposition victories show that Inter-Party candidates have had better chances at victory at the polls As we enter 2015, there is need to call for a stronger and united opposition to prepare adequately for a reorganised NRMO. Many cynics appear ambivalent in accepting the …

By Joan Akello Erias Lukwago, the out-of-office Lord Mayor of Kampala talked to The Independent’s Joan Akello about his one year absence at Kampala City Council Authority (KCAA) and the endless legal battles. What has happened since your impeachment last year? I have never been impeached.  There was a court …

By Ronald Musoke The Germany Ambassador to Uganda, Peter Blomeyer, talked to Ronald Musoke about the two countries’ 50 years of developmental cooperation. What are some of your impressions of the country since you arrived in September, 2014? Uganda is a beautiful country; it is a country with very kind …