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By Ronald Musoke World Bank responds to ‘incompetent Ugandan doctors’ report On March 21, the Uganda Medical and Dental Practitioners Council disputed a World Bank survey report which measured the competence of Uganda’s health service providers. The Service Delivery Indicators report had noted that “doctors in Uganda performed at about …

By Ronald Musoke On May 26, the WBS Television Auditorium at Naguru, in Kampala hosted the public to debate the recently released opinion poll done by Research World International (RWI) which was commissioned by Monitor Publications Limited and the Uganda Governance Platform to assess the opinions and attitudes of voting-age …

By Ronald Musoke The Dutch Ambassador to Uganda, Alphons Hennekens, spoke to The Independent’s Ronald Musoke How would you describe the current relations between the Netherlands and Uganda? The Netherlands and Uganda enjoy broad and active bilateral relations. The Netherlands has been a solid and trusted development partner for Uganda …

By Ian Katusiime Two of The Independent’s leading journalists Haggai Matsiko and Ronald Musoke won two awards each at the event organised by African Centre for Media Excellence (ACME)  which took place on April 9 at Golf Course Hotel,Kampala. Haggai Matsiko won an award for Extractive Reporting and Explanatory Reporting …

By Ronald Musoke Reality check for government’s quest for sciences As the Uganda National Examinations Board released the 2013 A-level results on March 27, the first insight into whether the government’s recent policy to force students pursue Science subjects was a wise move came to the fore. A total of …

By Ronald Musoke The National Curriculum Development Centre (NCDC) will, beginning this month (April), embark on the second phase of reforming Uganda’s lower-secondary school curriculum. The project which has been running since Nov. 2011 will see S1-S4 students shift from the current system where a student learns over 14 subjects …

By Ronald Musoke More than 275 high-level stakeholders from government, business and civil society have converged in Kigali today [March 31] for a three-day consultation to intensify efforts to get nutritious foods to people. The conference is being hosted by Rwanda where more than 500,000 Rwandan farmers have already planted …

By Ronald Musoke The Uganda National Examinations Board has finally released the 2013 A-level results today, March 27, with female candidates beating their male counterparts in the humanities. A total of 116,190 candidates registered for the 2013 examination from 1,710 centres compared to 111,456 candidates from 1334 centres in 2012. …

By Ronald Musoke Should we let this man destroy the Kinawataka wetland? Something dangerous is happening in the Kinawataka Swamp in the Banda area; a low-lying suburb about 10kms from Kampala city’s Central Business District along the eastern route. Since the beginning of this year, a mysterious encroacher has been …

By Ronald Musoke Beti Olive Kamya, the leader of the Uganda Federal Alliance spoke to The Independent’s Ronald Musoke. Are you also in the camp that believes the opposition should shun the 2016 general elections because the polls have already been rigged in favour of the ruling NRM party? What …