By Dicta Asiimwe Says new challenges call for stronger state leadership in the economy President Museveni this week launched the National Development Plan (NDP) whose drafters say is meant to transform Uganda from a peasant to a prosperous country within the next 30 years. They say government will achieve this through …
Read More »New NSSF MD
By John Njoroge State House involved in search Kagina, Rutega, Muhairwe named On December 30, 2009 the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) appointed Grace Isabirye as Acting Managing Director (MD) pending a formal appointment of a new MD by the NSSF board of directors. Isabirye had been NSSF’s Chief Investments …
Read More »National Development Plan promises target 2011 Elections
By Kyle Beaulieu Was the National Development Plan (NDP) deliberately launched on 19 Apr. 2010 by the National Resistance Movement (NRM) government in anticipation of the 2011 elections? The government has not had a clear strategic plan since 2008, when the Poverty Eradication Action Plan (PEAP) expired. With less than …
Read More »Will new development plan succeed?
By Isaac Mufumba Memories of Vision 2025 and PEAP create doubt Uganda has just launched a new Shs 54 trillion National Development Plan (NDP), the first in more than 40 years. The NDPs vision is to have “a transformed Ugandan Society from a peasant to a modern and prosperous country …
Read More »Museveni an obstacle to democracy
By Isaac Mufumba Influential American group says President Yoweri Museveni is an obstacle to the continued growth and expansion of democracy and only works within the limits of formal institutions when his political interests are not at stake, the 2010 Freedom House Report, ‘Countries at the Crossroads’, says. Countries …
Read More »Museveni backs tough law that could jail incompetent ministers
By Isaac Mufumba When I asked the Vice Chairman of Parliaments Budget Committee, Medi Mulumba (NRM Luuka County) about the Parliamentary committee on Government Assurances last week, he had a very low opinion. That is a dead committee. It has nothing to show for its existence, he said. This Committee …
Read More »An archbishop with a political message
By Bob Roberts Katende The King’s Bishop Sitting among the congregation and listening to the Easter summon by Archbishop Cyprian Lwanga, the head of the Roman Catholic Church in Uganda, was quite an event this April. During his sermons, Lwanga’s voice is so soft that he sounds almost meek. …
Read More »The celibacy doctrine
By Bob Kasango Fundamentalist attacks on priestly celibacy come in a number of different forms – not all compatible with one another. There is almost no other subject about which so many different confusions exist. The first and most basic confusion is thinking of priestly celibacy as a dogma or …
Read More »Sex scandals in the Catholic Church: Is it time for priests to marry?
By Dicta Asiimwe Is it time for priests to marry? In the last two weeks, the Roman Catholic Church has been in the news over its pedophilia scandals. Most of the scandals have been from Europe, especially in Ireland and Germany, the home country of Pope Benedict XVI, who is …
Read More »Lake Victoria crash plane was junk- probe report
By P. Matsiko wa Mucoori & Mubatsi Asinja Habati Aircraft flying life had expired UPDF told CAA to clear flight On March 9 last year, an Ilyushin IL-76 Russian made aircraft, operated by the Johannesburg-based Aerolift Company Ltd, crashed in Lake Victoria killing 11 people on board. The Ministry of …
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