Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | These are the top stories in this week’s THE INDEPENDENT. COVER STORY Bobi Wine fails first election test: Can he pass the next two tests? THE LAST WORD Uganda’s politics of self-destruction: Why Uganda’s opposition is going to hand Museveni an easy victory next year …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | These are the top stories in this week’s THE INDEPENDENT. COVER STORY One COVID-19 DEATH: Traders, salons, boda boda now part of major experiment THE LAST WORD When enemies feed each other: Why Uganda’s pro-democracy activists get it wrong when they support radical extremist cults …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | These are the top stories in this week’s THE INDEPENDENT. COVER STORY Besigye –Bobi Wine: Why their alliance is an inconvenience ANALYSIS Fighting COVID-19 with music: Why government should work with the musicians producing it – including Bobi Wine THE LAST WORD Uganda’s misguided COVID …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | These are the top stories in this week’s THE INDEPENDENT. COVER STORY Schools to open or not to open: COVID-19 Crisis exposes government weakness THE LAST WORD One year later: Reflections on the passage of an icon who did so much to shape who I …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | These are the top stories in this week’s THE INDEPENDENT. COVER STORY COVID is no joke: 2,500 Ugandans could die THE LAST WORD Free COVID face-masks? Give me a break: How democratic politics has placed Uganda on a perilous road of an irresponsible and lazy …
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