Race between Rav4, Subaru Forester, Kluger, Harrier Kampala, Uganda | MOTORING GURU | When The Independent’s motoring guru did a column in December 2017 predicting the popular car of 2018, the focus was on the evergreen compact SUV; the Toyota RAV4. Buried deep in that review was mention of an emerging …
Read More »REVIEW: Gone in 2018
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Jan.05: Former Archbishop Livingstone Mpalanyi Nkoyoyo Retired Church of Uganda Archbishop, Livingstone Mpalanyi Nkoyoyo has lost the battle to cancer at Kampala Hospital in Kololo. He had returned to Uganda in June 2017 from the UK, where he had been admitted at St. Mary’s Hospital …
Read More »REVIEW: 2018’s funniest stories
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Tororo man eats cobra to avenge his lost chicken Kenneth Odiom 34, shocked fellow villagers in Kwapa central village in Tororo district when, for his birthday meal, he hunted and killed a venomous cobra snake that had been eating his chickens and ate it. The …
Read More »ANALYSIS: Torture in 2018
Justice Katureebe pain and Bobi Wine’s pockets Kampala, Uganda | RONALD MUSOKE | Many Ugandans, including Chief Justice Bart Katureebe, agree that this year has been one of the worst for human rights violations. This year coincided with the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights but in Uganda, …
Read More »China aids Uganda’s fast pace on development track
Kampala, Uganda | XINHUA | The year 2018 ends on a good note for Uganda as the east African country eyes more financing and investment from China. After the 2018 Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation held in early September, the Ugandan cabinet quickly formed an inter-ministerial …
Read More »ARTS: Sane’s white faces
How Africans become invisible on the global stage Kampala, Uganda | DOMINIC MUWANGUZI | Sane produces politically engaged art: the art that inspires conversation on ensuing political situations. He draws interest in his work with metaphors that satirically communicate the evils of the Capital Empire with its villains. He sardonically implicates …
Read More »Vipers SC sack Mexican coach Espinoza
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda side Vipers SC has this evening terminated the services of its head coach Javier Martinez Espinoza. A statement on the football club’s website confirmed the sacking, and stated that, “The club management thanks the Mexican tactician for the services rendered to the club. Vipers …
Read More »Behind URA’s Digital Tax Stamps controversy
SICPA embroiled in fraud cases in various countries Kampala, Uganda | PATRICIA AKANKWATSA | Ugandan government has bowed to pressure from manufacturers and decided to put on hold the introduction of Digital Stamps intended to plug revenue leakages. This follows a series of meeting between the Minister of Finance, Planning and …
Read More »ANALYSIS: The year Bobi Wine
NRM, FDC battled eight by-elections but a young untested legislator became the issue Kampala, Uganda | IAN KATUSIIME | This year, 2018, saw some upsets and changes in the political lay of the land as 36-year-old legislator Robert Kyagulanyi popularly known as Bobi Wine continued to exert his presence on a …
Read More »Hajji Hussein Kyanjo on politics of honesty and openness
Kampala, Uganda | AGNES NANTABA | Hajji Hussein Kyanjo is a former MP of Makindye East constituency in Kampala district. He was one of the most candid opposition figures in the eighth and part of the ninth parliament, a position enhanced by his moderate approach to legislative issues generally, yet very …
Read More »
The Independent Uganda: You get the Truth we Pay the Price