NEWS ANALYSIS

By Allan Ssekamatte What the mammoth crowds at Nambole say about the state of our democracy To my left was John Kanyanya, 72, a diehard Cranes aficionado who has not missed a national team game in two years. The septuagenarian is a brother to 1970’s freedom fighter Mawumbe Mukhwana. To …

By Eriasa Mukiibi Sserunjogi Speaker Kadaga confronts great expectations with an array of reform proposals, but sceptics linger Rebecca Kadaga has as much to smile about as she has to worry about. She is the only woman in Uganda to have had an uninterrupted stint in parliament for the last …

By Agather Atuhaire Ministry of Tourism officials were paid for trips they never made Tourism minister Ephraim Kamuntu has been in the news lately for stopping a commission of inquiry into alleged corruption in one of his  departments; the Protected Areas Management for Sustainable Use (PAMSU). Now fresh information appears …

By Independent Reporter Until May 23, Prof. Gilbert Balibaseka Bukenya was Uganda’s vice president. He spoke to The Independent about life after leaving the office he held for nine years. Did your appointment as vice president the first time come as a surprise to you or did you expect it? …

By Independent Investigations The story behind the news In August 2010, a source brought to The Independent a series of documents showing bank transfers of large amounts of money to two ministers: Sam Kutesa of Foreign Affairs and Hillary Onek, then of Energy and Mineral Development. According to the documents, …

By Rukiya Makuma People were poorer than today but they did not notice it – James Tumusiime In 1962, James Tumusiime, now Group Managing Director of Fountain Publishers Limited was barely 10 and a primary four pupil at Kinoni Primary school in Mbarara district. He could tell that something important …

By Agather Atuhaire Allegations of forged accounts and government meddling leave their once-vibrant union on the brink of closure Coffee prices are at an all time high but farmers of the Bugisu Cooperative Union (BCU) in eastern Uganda have never seen darker days as a mixture of local and national …

  Uganda’s Prime Minister, Amama Mbabazi and two other ministers were on Oct.10 have allegedly benefited from bribes from oil companies, parliament heard yesterday at a critical debate about the country’s nascent oil sector. A jam parked parliament that had been recalled from recess heard that Mbabazi, Sam Kuteesa, the …

By Independent Reporter Until May 23, Prof. Gilbert Balibaseka Bukenya was Uganda’s vice president. He spoke to The Independent about life after leaving the office he held for nine years. Your Excellency, what is life like outside the corridors of power and the number two guy in the country? I …

By Mubatsi Asinja Habati How the CHOGM corruption case benefits the mafia, Museveni, and the donors When former vice president Gilbert Bukenya was sent to Luzira Maximum Security Prison on Oct. 3 on allegations of corruption, it looked like the final blow to a man who has always exuded confidence …