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By Isaac Mufumba Last week members parliament went native. They nearly had a fist-fighting in the House. The opposition MPs broke a door of the parliament to force themselves inside after being blocked from re-entering the House where they had walked out to protest the Deputy Speakers refusal to allow …

By Independent Team Justice Kanyeihamba opposes political party representatives for EC This March might turn out to be the most important month in the run up to the February 2011 presidential and parliamentary elections. Whether the 2011 outcome will be good or bad depends on the outcome of four Bills …

By Mubatsi Asinja Habati An inside look at thetop positions in most government bodies While opening the National Resistance Movement (NRM) party National Executive Council meeting at State House Entebbe on January 12, President Yoweri Museveni warned delegates that his government will not tolerate anybody propagating and practising sectarianism. ‘We …

By Independent Reporters Members of the National Resistance Movement (NRM) chapter in the USA spent what was supposed be a gala evening crestfallen when President Yoweri Museveni cancelled his attendance at the last minute. Museveni’s absence however did not deter some Ugandans from holding placards and demonstrating for most of …

By Patrick Matsiko wa Mucoori Following the September 7-12 riots that rocked the city and its suburbs after the police stopped the Kabaka from visiting Kayunga, The Independent sought views from prominent Baganda and other senior citizens on what this violence means for the NRM-Buganda relations and how best the …

By Odoobo C. Bichachi & P. Matsiko wa Mucoori Kololo meetings celebrate Otafiire ‘downfall’; 2016 is too far to wait In his autobiography, Sowing the Mustard Seed; the Struggle for Freedom and Democracy in Uganda, President Yoweri Museveni argued that in his search for power, former Ugandan President Milton Obote …

P. Matsiko wa Mucoori & Ongwens Kisangala Look, we have been told a million times: President Milton Obote rigged the 1980 elections. True, it happened. There is credible information of various forms of election irregularities orchestrated by Obote’s Uganda Peoples Congress (UPC) in diverse places across the country. The rigging …

By Andrew M. Mwenda Next week, the National Resistance Movement (NRM) will celebrate 23 years in government. The NRM revolution was born in a moment of great hope. It is difficult for me to capture the emotional tone of that moment. But there was great hope in most of this …