By Melina Platas Izama MPs have generators and other coping resources if the energy sector fails but their voters and industrialists could incur ruinous costs Parliament’s recommendation to cancel the Ugandan government’s contract with the country’s main electricity distributor, Umeme, has reinvigorated the debate over the company’s performance, as well …
Read More »The danger of the crowd mentality
By Dr. Jude Kagoro Demonstrations versus socio-political order in Kampala Renowned French philosopher, Gustave Le Bon once proposed that crowds are far less intelligent than the individuals that comprise them. When individuals come together in a crowd, there is a strong likelihood that their individual conscious personality and intelligence temporarily …
Read More »2013 ‘A’ Levels
By Ronald Musoke Reality check for government’s quest for sciences As the Uganda National Examinations Board released the 2013 A-level results on March 27, the first insight into whether the government’s recent policy to force students pursue Science subjects was a wise move came to the fore. A total of …
Read More »Inside Museveni, Tumwebaze, Musisi’s meetings to oust Lukwago
By Haggai Matsiko Fresh details on how councillors warned Museveni against impeaching Lord Mayor emerge On November 14, 2013, a group of over 20 ruling party Kampala Capital City Council Authority (KCCA) councillors held two separate meetings with President Yoweri Museveni at State House, Entebbe. High Court Judge Catherine Bamugemereire …
Read More »Disaster on the lake
By Agencies Boat accident kills over 100 refugees on Lake Albert Two days after capsised on Lake Albert, the Uganda police marine department had retrieved 108 bodies. The ill-fated vessel which had been transporting Congolese refugees returning to their homeland capsised on Saturday March 22. «As many as 250 people …
Read More »Is Lukwago court fight pointless?
By Haggai Matsiko Lord Mayor’s opponents have showed no respect for court orders Since Erias Lukwago, was controversially impeached from the Kampala lord mayorship on November 25, 2013 he has hoped to return to his mantle by trouncing his political foes in court. When on March.20, he arrived at High …
Read More »The police you don’t know
By Jude Kagoro Re-interpreting the Uganda Police Force In the course of a six-month pre-field work preparation phase for research on the police practices in Uganda, I sat in my office at Bremen University in Germany reviewing articles on the force in the major Ugandan newspapers. In sum, the newspapers …
Read More »NEMA’s latest mess
By Ronald Musoke Should we let this man destroy the Kinawataka wetland? Something dangerous is happening in the Kinawataka Swamp in the Banda area; a low-lying suburb about 10kms from Kampala city’s Central Business District along the eastern route. Since the beginning of this year, a mysterious encroacher has been …
Read More »Hunting Malaysian Flight MH370
By Shannon Teoh Finding a needle in a shifting haystack Scanning an endless white-speckled expanse of the blue Andaman Sea, Malaysian air force Captain Fareq Hassan’s team of spotters fight turbulence, nausea and mental strain in a seeming “Mission Impossible”: to find Flight 370. “This is not just a needle …
Read More »State-sponsored killers
By The Independent team Inside the row between Rwanda and South Africa At 11 am on March 6, the Rwandan Chargé d’affaires in Pretoria, South Africa, Didier Rutembesa, was summoned to a meeting with the Director General of the Department of International Relations of the South Africa’s ministry of foreign …
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