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By Rukiya Makuma Ailing parastatal risks losing UN aid Cash-strapped Posta Uganda is on the verge of losing vital aid from a United Nations agency that helps improve postal services in poor countries because of alleged corruption in the parastatal. Although the money involved, US$ 76,747 (approx. Shs 190 million) …

By Andrew M. Mwenda How Khartoum is using South Sudan to hide a rebellion by its own people The low intensity conflict between the new state of South Sudan and the Republic of Sudan has escalated into a near full-scale war. On Monday April 9, the Sudanese Peoples’ Liberation Army …

By Haggai Matsiko As the dispute between Sudan and South Sudan over oil transportation dues deteriorates into full-fledged war, The Independent reports of an intense rhetoric that could see Kenya and Uganda sucked in. Following separation, most of the oil fields fell in South Sudan’s territory but Sudan remains the …

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 …