NEWS ANALYSIS

When local hopes are dashed by global realities Kampala, Uganda | AIDEN BARLOW | Rising international commodity prices can shape or reshape the fortunes of places. When large mining and oil and gas prospectors suddenly show an interest, a remote area can become a resource frontier a place that’s far from …

Every rain season brings agony to residents of low income areas built in designated flood plains Kampala, Uganda | EVELYN AINEMBABAZI |  Kampala City, Uganda’s capital district on the edge of Lake Victoria, is a place of high hills, low vales, and rain storms that result in regular floods. To …

Human Rights Watch issues ‘biased’ report on oil pipeline Kampala, Uganda | RONALD MUSOKE | The Petroleum Authority of Uganda (PAU), the government agency that regulates the oil and gas sector, has accused Human Rights Watch of ‘bias’ following a new report the New York-based non-profit published on July 10. “The …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda turned down an offer by the Islamic Republic of Iran to build a mini refinery that should have refined oil from the Albertine region. It is emerging that the geopolitics around oil and gas played against the Iranian offer as the government of Uganda …

New report shows influence on Museveni, Muhoozi COVER STORY | IAN KATUSIIME | The literature produced and used by the National Resistance Army (NRA), President Yoweri Museveni’s guerilla army that fought in the Luweero bushes from 1981-1986 called its mission a “protracted people’s war.” The doctrine of “people’s war”, sometimes called …

NEWS ANALYSIS | Xinhua |  The two-day Vilnius Summit of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) concluded here on Wednesday amid divisions among members and criticism from the international community. During the summit, Türkiye green-lighted Sweden’s accession to the military bloc, and NATO adopted its “most comprehensive defense plan since …

Ronald Musoke explains why five years of consultations have failed to re-negotiate Double Taxation Agreement Kampala, Uganda | RONALD MUSOKE | The Netherlands has been one of the top ten sources of foreign direct investments (FDI) for Uganda since the two countries signed the treaty in 2004. Today, there are about …

Security, citizens on edge after two previous deadly attacks Kampala, Uganda | IAN KATUSIIME | A terror warning issued by the U.K. has left Ugandan security on high alert. After two deadly attacks on Ugandan troops in Somalia and a rebel attack on a school in Kasese, it appears to be …

Merger of roads agency was supposed to take effect with new financial year Kampala, Uganda | IAN KATUSIIME | Seven months after the Uganda National Roads Authority (UNRA) was to have wound down and its mandate remerged with its mother Ministry of Works and Transport (MoWT) under a grandiose cost-cutting plan, …

Uganda improves on freedom, lags on prosperity COVER STORY | THE INDEPENDENT |Is freedom a precondition of prosperity? Do countries that become freer also become more prosperous? How are freedom and prosperity distributed around the world today? What has been the evolution of these measures in the past twenty-eight years and …