By Bob Kasango The Catholic Church has had three African popes. Is 2013, the year of Africa? On Feb. 28, Benedict XVI will become the first pope to resign in almost 600 years. That is not just tradition; it is dogma. In the past 1000 years, only four other popes …

By Alan Ssempebwa Can it turn its debt riddled, loss-making enterprise into an easy profit making opportunity? A noticeable omission to Kampala’s landscape has left an awkward gap in the city’s transport system. Having rolled out onto the streets of Kampala in March last year to nullify the effects of …

By Haggai Matsiko Works PS Muganzi quizzed over Shs 15bn `ghost’ project The police has interrogated officials of the Ministry of Works, including the Permanent secretary, Charles Muganzi, in connection with an alleged `ghost’ project in which the government is feared to have lost over Shs 15 billion. The racket …

By Haggai Matsiko He sought treatment from clinics near his home; exotic machines and convoys made him uncomfortable He resented the fanfare that surrounds being a father of the President. It was almost as if by becoming the President of Uganda, his son President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni had interrupted his …

By Mukama Miriam A visit to Mulago Hospital mortuary shows a mortician’s attempt to cope with his loss The woman lying on the metallic slab was about 60 years old. Her skull was bare, and white with hints of her blood. The skin that normally covers the skull had been …

By Priscilla Muhairwe Inside Mukula’s trial, conviction, and appeal Flt. Capt. George Mike Mukula is a rock star politician. The Soroti Municipality MP is flamboyant in dress and lifestyle, in good and in tough times and his recent conviction by the Anti-corruption Court, which has generated so much debate and …

By Pearl Natamba How do patients and their attendants avoid infections if they cannot find water to wash their hands at the nation’s top health facility? It is easy, when you are in the casualty ward at Mulago National Referral Hospital in Kampala, to imagine that possibly all disease causing …

By Mwalimu Musheshe Open letter to the Minister of Agriculture Animal Industry and Fisheries Dear Minister, on behalf of the NAADS Board of Directors of June 2009 to June 2012, I write to express our concern, demand an apology and show how consciously or unconsciously someone or you are killing …

By Andrew M. Mwenda The scandals in OPM and the ministry of Public Service show a breakdown of the government’s financial management system Two scandals were exposed in Uganda simultaneously as 2012 came to an end; one in the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM), the other in the Ministry …

By Alan Ssempebwa Ireland leads donors happy about government crackdown on graft Uganda is reaching a crossroads in the way the way it handles corruption. It is either the beginning of the end for corruption with impunity or business as usual within the next few years. The hard-line approach to …