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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 …

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 …

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 …

By Dicta Asiimwe Former Vice President and now President Museveni’s advisor on microfinance Dr Specioza Wandira Kazibwe is again in the spotlight over abuse of public funds under the government’s Bonna Bagaggawale programme. The money meant for people with disabilities (PWDs) in Busoga under the Bonna Bagaggawale (Prosperity-for-All) has sparked …

By Isaac Mufumba Are they a means to a political rather than social-economic end? For most of the last part of 2009, government was dolling out food to sections of the population in West Nile, eastern and northern Uganda, following a famine that ravaged those areas leaving at least 50 …

By Isaac Mufumba Time check: 10:30 a.m., a lean looking man of average height, clad in a white short sleeved shirt and a sky blue necktie enters one of the committee rooms of Uganda’s parliament. This is the Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), Nathan Nandala Mafabi. He takes …

By Dicta Asiimwe Who takes care of the roaming lonely orphans? He is wearing threadbare rugs. Thats all he owns for clothes. Kutosi is the only name that identifies the 13-year-old boy whose parents and five siblings died in the Bududa mudslides. In the African setting, orphans without both parents …

By Bob Roberts Katende  UNESCO experts plan to rebuild tombs             Govt agrees to pay Buganda debt Traditionally, the Baganda have a saying: ‘Akugoba yakuwa ekkubo’. It is similar to the phrase often attributed to the Mandarin of China that any crisis represents both danger and opportunity. The burning of the …

 By Mubatsi Asinja Habati In the March 22 Parliamentary by-elections in Rukiga County, NRM’s Edson Kakuru defeated three rivals after polling 10,910 votes against his closest opponent – FDC’s Jack Sabiiti with 9,329, Independent candidates Amos Mugisha’s 6,786 votes and Medard Gumusiriza’s 291 votes. The voter turnout was 63% of …

By Patrick Kagenda Namboole Stadium outside Kampala was on March 13 the venue of an election that has become the talk of the country. ‘I have felt, smelt, experienced true democracy,’ screamed Dickson Opul to an excited crowd of about 1,000 people who gathered in the stadium last week for …