ARTICLES 2008-2015

By Andrew M. Mwenda For sometime now, my articles comparing Uganda and Rwanda have generated the most intense debate on our website, my private emails and my phone’s SMSs. President Yoweri Museveni’s supporters accuse me of doing PR for President Paul Kagame. Many people ask why I compare the two …

By Mubatsi Asinja Habati But Ugandan exporters dismiss the US trade partnership The 8th forum for the African Growth Opportunity Act (AGOA) held in Nairobi last week attracted a mammoth delegation that comprised the minister of trade, tourism and industry, Kahinda Otafiire, ministry officials and a group from the AGOA …

By Patrick Kagenda You have been accused of running down the chamber. What is happening? That is not true. If anything I have done a lot to make the chamber an established institution. I found the chamber being run without functional structures, affiliated to the National Enterprises Corporation (NEC) and …

By Roberts Katende In light of the endemic famine in Uganda and the need for sustainable solutions to the problem, the Deputy Director of World Food Programme in charge of Hunger, Sisulu Sheila visited Uganda last week. The Independent’s Roberts Katende talked to her about the new strategies. Below are …

By Melina Platas The facts, the figures and their implications Over the last two weeks, the dispute on “indigenous people of Bunyoro”versus Bafuruki has dominated political debate in Uganda. Sparked off by President Yoweri Museveni’s letter to the Minister for the Presidency, Beatrice Wabudeya, the debate has been short on …

By Kabona Esiara As Rwanda, Burundi demand end of TRC concession to Indian Rail Company With the construction of a trans-boundary railway line from Tanzania through Rwanda to Burundi planned to begin at the end of this year, infrastructure ministers in the three countries are pushing Tanzania to terminate the …

By Bob Roberts Katende Patience  we use one name to preserve her anonymity – faces a gloomy future. For the past one year, she has been suffering from incessant malaria, headache, and an irritating skin rash. She is HIV positive and has been advised to start taking anti-retroviral drugs. Unfortunately, …

By Prof Mahmood Mamdani This is an edited version of Prof. Mahmood Mamdani’s presentation at the Abu Mayanja Annual Lecture on August 7, 2009 at Kampala International Conference Centre. I am greatly honored to have been asked to give this lecture. I met the late Abu Mayanja in 1961. I …

By Mubatsi Asinja Habati In 2000, a proposal to privatise some services at Entebbe International Airport was hatched. This came after a study, Big Push Strategy, by the UN Conference on Trade and Development recommended that Entebbe be transformed into a modern cargo handling centre in Africa. The study was …

By Andrew M. Mwenda  In this column last week, I argued that after every successive election in Uganda, the quality of government has tended to deteriorate. Many Ugandans think this is because our nation has a sham democracy. ‘Were we to have genuine democracy,’ my friend Erias Lukwago, MP for …