ARTICLES 2008-2015

  By Flavia Nassaka How much time do you spend on your phone? If you are a typical user, you must be increasingly replacing making calls with text messaging; especially with the new technologies offering countless messaging apps like whatsapp, viber, and Facebook.  These offer such cheaper yet more efficient …

By Andrew M. Mwenda How it has facilitated a politics that has undermined the ability of public institutions to serve the common good To explain the dysfunctions in the public sector in Uganda, we need to understand how political power in our country is organised, how it is exercised and …

By Patrick Kagenda City taps to remain dry as NWSC battles self-inflicted problems Kampala city, which sits on the edge of the world’s second biggest fresh water body; Lake Victoria, is reeling from a water shortage reminiscent of the 1990s. Once again, queues of residents can be seen fetching water …

By Julius Businge   Rwanda’s home carrier, RwandAir has launched its daily flights to Nairobi from Entebbe; a move that officials said is a fulfillment of their expansion strategy in the region and beyond. Speaking at Entebbe International Airport, on Jan. 29, John Mirenge, the CEO of RwandAir said the …

By Seumas Milne Escalating inequality is the work of a global elite that will resist every challenge to its vested interests The billionaires and corporate oligarchs meeting in Davos recently were getting worried about inequality. It might be hard to stomach that the overlords of a system that has delivered …

By Enock Nyorekwa Twinoburyo If sustained, current prices have implications for Uganda as an importer and potential medium term producer To economists, oil prices follow a random walk (volatile and unpredictable). This is the very reason many economists are reluctant to forecast oil prices. As a matter of fact, prices …

By Joan Akello Abel John Julian Rwendeire, Deputy Chairperson National Planning Authority (NPA), former MP and minister talked to Joan Akello about his family and politics. Anything we don’t know about you? I value local music and play enanga (harp in Rukiga). By age five, my mother had given me …

By Ronald Musoke The Irish Ambassador to Uganda Donal Cronin talked to Ronald Musoke about the two countries’ cooperation over the last two decades It has been two decades since Ireland established bilateral ties with Uganda. How would you describe the relationship between the two countries over the last 20 …

By Haggai Matsiko Brig. Muhoozi’s role and why UPDF might produce President’s successor President Yoweri Museveni has stirred up dust with his assertion that he cannot leave power for as long as he is still energetic and has control of the army.  Soon after his utterances became the highlight of …

By Flavia Nassaka Experts call for integration of mental health care for the positive at all levels One Tuesday morning recently, a man who looked to be in his 60s walked into the Independent Publications office with a story so important, he said, it had to be published immediately. With …