NEWS ANALYSIS

By Matthew Stein Up close with AMISOM’s “Somali expert” This upcoming January, Maj. Barigye Ba-Hoku, the Africa Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) spokesman, will have completed three years in Somalia. “I’m now in my own right an expert on Somalia,” he recently said during an impromptu visit to The Independent. …

By kabona esiara Rwanda switches to digital broadcasting in January 2011 The National Bureau for Information (ORINFOR) monopoly on the television broadcast industry in Rwanda has come to an end. By next year, a second signal distributor for terrestrial digital broadcast network will be licensed. The development brings in competition …

By matthew stein New report questions Rwanda-DRC strategy in the Kivu Rape. Violence. Displacement. Minerals. Pillaging. These are all words that have become synonymous with the relentless conflict in the Kivu region of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). In 2006, the U.N. estimated that 27,000 sexual assaults had taken …

By Andrew M. Mwenda & Eriasa mukiibi sserunjogi President asks for more money for State House, Defence, Police On Dec. 8 President Yoweri Museveni and his cabinet met. On the agenda was one item; passing a request for supplementary budgets for State House, Ministry of Defense, Uganda Police and President’s …

By Dicta Assimwe IGG Bakus critics say releasing yet another report is pointless When the Acting Inspector General of Government (IGG) Raphael Baku released a new report on Nov. 18, he ironically was the first to throw mud at it. He derogatively described his statutory biannual Report to Parliament January …

By the independent team & agencies Rwandan President Paul Kagame arrived in Brussels over the weekend at the head of a large delegation for a four-day state visit to Belgium, the government said on Monday, Dec.6. An official statement from the President’s Office in Kigali said attended the fifth edition …

By Independent Team & Agencies Rwanda’s child policies praised in new Africa report A new report launched Dec. 6 by the African Child Policy Forum (ACPF) has listed Rwanda among countries committed to investing in children. The report measures African government’s investment in children and confirms that a country’s commitment …

By eriasa mukiibi sserunjigi On Dec. 20, President Yoweri Museveni will take his re-election campaign to Kamuli district, home to three important members of his government. There will be no controversy around Deputy Speaker of Parliament Rebecca Kadaga, who is looking to retain her seat as district Woman MP on …

By the independent team Bukenya, Otafiire dropped from Museveni campaign team Mbabazi named in the plot  Mid this year, President Yoweri Museveni received an intelligence report written against Vice President Gilbert Bukenya.  Signed by then chief of Internal Security Organisation (ISO), Amos Mukumbi, the confidential report claimed that Bukenya was …

By Rukiya Makuma Government to retain certificates of medical workers to stem loss of human resource to better paying countries The College of Public Health in Mulago Hospital is a busy place as medical students, in their over-size white lab coats scurry around with what seems like a sense of …