ARTICLES 2008-2015

By Joseph Were Reeling from a 5% drop in year-on-year net profit amid increasing costs and stiffer competition, East African Breweries Ltd who are the makers of the Bell beer brand among others in Uganda, is mooting a price hike. ‘The possibility to put up prices exists too in Uganda …

By Patrick Kagenda Many have known it for sometime but latest figures from the Uganda Bureau of Statics (UBOS) show the full extent of the current nationwide drought on consumer prices. The UBOS, which are based on statistics regarding the general change in prices of pre-selected consumer items in July, …

  By Patrick Kagenda Money transfer service company Dahabshiil is investing in technologies to provide both 24-hour online transfers, SMS notification to customers, and guarantee security in excess international protocols and procedures aimed at combating terrorism, money laundering and other illegal usage. The Independent’s Patrick Kagenda talked to Ibrahim A. …

By Bob Roberts Katende On August 25, Aswa County MP Reagan Okumu presented a list of 200 people he claims were killed by the UPDF in northern Ugandan at the height of the LRA insurgency. Why did he bring it out now? The Independent’s Bob Roberts Katende spoke to him …

By Andrew M. Mwenda I have increasingly grown sceptical of international humanitarian intervention. Although largely driven by moral reasons, it has often inflicted more harm than good on its intended beneficiaries. It is with this view that I went for a public lecture by Prof. Mahmood Mamdani at Makerere University …

 By Andrew M. Mwenda On June 25, fifteen companies submitted bids for a contract with the Electoral Commission (EC) to update the Voter Register. According to the bid documents, each bidder was supposed to submit three envelops: a technical proposal, a financial proposal and a third envelop was supposed to …

By Eric Kabera Critics of Rwandan President Paul Kagame – including complimentary ones – unfailingly cite two flaws: that he is illegitimate because he hails from the minority; two, he is intolerant of freedom of expression. The first charge is easily disposed of. Why for example has no one found …

By Independent Reporter Is he simply the Trojan horse of yet unknown forces? The two-week whirlwind tour of the country by recently returned former UN under-secretary general Olara Otunnu is raising political temperatures in the country and worrying the NRM government in spite of the nonchalant attitude it has taken …

By Charles Onyango Obbo Andrew Mwenda’s ‘A Tale Of Two Presidents, Two Nations and Two Revolutions‘ has generated a lot of debate. On one hand you have Rwanda’s President Kagame, who has the image of being iron-fisted, and leads a poor country that has been able to make far-reaching achievements, …

By Patrick Kagenda Government says 2 new companies coming The Uganda National Bureau of Standards and ministry of Works Laboratories find no quality problems with it but imported cement from Pakistan has local producers worried. A combination of rising costs of production, low supply and growing demand pushed the price …