NEWS ANALYSIS

By Haggai Matsiko Have some cadres become too strong for him? It is not clear how the latest clash between Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi and the Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga, will end. But it is interesting to watch how President Yoweri Museveni will handle it. In the past, Museveni …

By Stephen Kafeero & Ivan Rugambwa Planned loan scheme could throw students into the debt pool without a clear payment plan Tonny Nalima completed his Senior Six and hopes to join university for a degree in Petroleum Engineering. When we met the university admission lists were not yet out but …

By Haggai Matsiko New evidence shows how suspects in the case could walk free •   She needed to have consumed 200 times more Cocaine to die •   She needed to have consumed 35 times more alcohol to die •   Urine sample sent to UK and Israel possibly was not hers …

By The Independent Team What could she do to cure Kampala’s `multiple-organ failure’? Justice Catherine Bamugemereire’s tribunal hearing the petition filed by Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) councilors against Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago seems set to make Kampala’s politics worse, not better. And it does not matter whether Justice Bamugemereire …

By Haggai Matsiko Why the Deputy Speaker does the dirty work August 6 was a busy day for the Speaker of Parliament Rebecca Kadaga and her deputy, Jacob Oulanyah. It is the day the controversial Public Order Management Bill (POM Bill) was passed in parliament. The action on the floor …

By Haggai Matsiko Major shake-up in management looms at Shs3.4 trillion workers fund Richard Byarugaba, the managing director of the National Social Security Fund, remains firm he will retain his job after Finance Minister Maria Kiwanuka directed it should be advertised. But coming at a time when Byarugaba faces mismanagement …

By Independent Team Who won what, who lost what? What happens when a king and his chiefs move too far ahead of his subjects? That is the question Kabaka Ronald Muwenda Mutebi II and his new Katikiro or Prime Minister Charles Peter Mayiga, now face following events surrounding the 20th …

By Joan Akello Charles Ocici, Richard Byarugaba, Maggie Kigozi, Kenneth Kitariko reveal tricks of surviving at the top Survival rates at the top are declining for C.E.O’s in Uganda and the men and women in the top office are buffeted by a sea of pressures. As a result most large …

By Ronald Musoke Gun culture gives way to agriculture but nature still rules Karamoja is in the news again— and it is the familiar story for which this sub-region of north eastern Uganda has come to be associated with for generations: drought and hunger. The Karamoja most Ugandans who have …

By Haggai Matsiko Can MPs’ petition to EAC court stop Museveni, Muhoozi? The decision by some MPs to sue President Yoweri Museveni in the East African Court of Justice over the army promotions announced on May 24 and 25 has raised question over what it seeks to achieve. Nicholas Opiyo, …