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By Jocelyn Edwards Harassment, beatings for Ugandan migrants in South Sudan Okello (not his real name), a 19-year-old orphan from Uganda, came to South Sudan in search of a better life. Having lost both of his parents and without a job in his own country, he hoped to cash in …

By Eriasa Mukiibi Sserunjogi Why did Mbabazi, Nandala skip Kadaga’s big moment? On April 4, The Independent’s parliament reporter Agather Atuhaire was stopped as she rushed to cover the proceedings of a committee of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) assembly at the Kampala Serena Hotel. A plain-cloth security official interrogated her …

By Agather Atuhaire Inter-Parliamentary Union offers lessons from the Arab Spring If the discussion and the subsequent resolutions reached at at the 126th Inter-Parliamentary Union Assembly in Kampala were not just good for the paper as observers say many others have been, Uganda, the host country  benefit most. Unrest and …

By Karien Mukama Ownership queries persist in as it fights financial squeeze As members of parliament witnessed recently when he testified about the “true” ownership of his company, Pioneer Easy Bus’s Managing Director David Ndemeire Bagenda is a master of comic exaggeration. But none of his strokes then matched his …

By Eriasa Mukiibi Sserunjogi Makes violent revolution inevitable, say experts In 1962, the year Uganda became independent, former US President John F. Kennedy made the following quote; “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable”. Makerere University political scientist Yasin Olum says as Uganda edges towards its golden …

  By Pearl Natamba Gen. Kayihura, AIP Nuwabwiine,  AIP Kanyesiza cited for various abuses For all the five times I have been assaulted by police, I have never gotten the chance to see who has done so but this time around I managed to,” says Siraje Lubwama, a reporter at …

By Haggai Matsiko Mutebile letter to commercial banks upsets NGOs involved in oil advocacy Plot 86 on Kanjokya Street in Kamwokya, a Kampala city suburb, is quiet block with a few latest model SUVs crammed into its tiny parking space. It’s the nondescript home of the Advocates Coalition for Development …

By Eriasa Mukiibi Sserunjogi The force should seek dialogue not revenge say analysts John Michael Ariong spent his 26 years of service as an unknown policeman but his death on March 21 has thrown the whole nation into a tailspin. Ariong’s death, supposedly at the hands of civilians, was so …

By Rukiya Makuma Emin Baro’s case opens lid on Uganda’s worst kept secret Today is a sad moment for the Ugandan woman,” Miria Matembe the Executive Director of Centre for Women in Governance started off on a sad note. “We can not allow this to happen, this is an insult …

By Mubatsi Asinja Habati Museveni losing support, Besigye gaining Opposition leader Kizza Besigye’s Walk-to-Work protests could be gaining him significant support according to an analysis of the latest Afrobarometer poll. But the growth of opposition to President Yoweri has still not passed the critical 50% mark. Part of the explanation …