By Andrew M. Mwenda The only difference between our politicians is one of power, not policy; eating, not serving Last week, the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) held a meeting to discuss whether its members of the 8th Parliament who took the Shs20m “bribe” from President Yoweri Museveni to pass …

By Enock Musinguzi Uganda cannot sit on a green belt and continue to sit on its hands as the terminally arid region starves to death. In his ‘My African Journey’, Winston Churchill wrote “My journey is at an end, the tale is told………concentrate upon Uganda! Nowhere else in Africa will …

By Agather Atuhaire Uganda would probably not have over 30 percent of its citizens surviving on less than a dollar per day and about half of the population unemployed if one of its top potential industries was not underexploited. Tourism is Uganda’s second biggest foreign exchange earner, directly employing more …

By Rukiya Makuma Located at the foot of Nakasero hill, Nakasero Market had become famous for the daily heap of garbage that lay unattended to with a swarm of flies hovering between the rubbish and the fruits displayed for sale. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays would be terrible for road users …

By Stephen Kafeero Mohandas Ghandi once said: “I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.” The message embedded in these words is at variance with the thinking of many Ugandans today who take it upon themselves …

By The Independent Team Is this the first time that you’ve ever ordered someone killed? Three days after the killing of former Al Qauda leader Osama bin Laden, US President Barack Obama spoke to CBS TV “60 Minutes” correspondent Steve Kroft. Was this the most satisfying week of your Presidency? …

By Eriasa Mukiibi Sserunjogi Parliament rebels, Muhoozi not in control of army, no bail law for opponents Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi usually prefers to be the perfect picture of calm even at his most harassed moments. So a few eyebrows went up when the dapper NRM-strongman, on the afternoon of …

By Andrew M. Mwenda The benefits of high food prices go to the rural poor (the majority) while the costs are incurred by urbanites, a minority. As I write this article, food prices in Uganda are falling rapidly. For instance, the farm-gate price of a kilogram of maize in Kiryandongo …

By A Correspondent Glued to their seats in a classroom that was the biggest in this rural primary school of Bubangizi, were parents fearful of what was going to befall their school since the lanky undergraduate of political science at Makerere University had decided to say what everybody had on …

By Dr Sam. A. Okunonzi The first 14 AIDS patients were from Manhattan and Greenwich Village in New York. On June 5th 1981, the Centres for Disease Control (CDC) reported a cluster of cases of pneumocysitis pneumonia, a very rare condition, in 5 gay men in Los Angeles. This was …