By Independent Team Details of how much Museveni’s State House costs the taxpayer During his inaugural Speech when he was being sworn in as President of Uganda on January 29th 1986, Yoweri Museveni mocked fellow African leaders. ‘We want our people to be able to afford shoes,’ he said as …

By Joseph Were Museveni’s decision that could change how every business in Uganda operates In April 2007, President Yoweri Museveni chaired a meeting at State House Nakasero to discuss the proposed Inland Dry Port at Tororo near the Kenya-Uganda border at Malaba. In attendance was a small carefully selected team …

By Agnes Asiimwe What’s your day like? I wake up at 7a.m; I do exercises for one hour in my house and at 9 a.m. I am at work. I have businesses in China so I work on that first because when its 12 noon here its 5 p.m. in …

By John Njoroge The battle for the Naguru-Nakawa housing project has now taken a new twist with another group of land seekers joining the ranks in a manner that resembles the 19 century scramble and partition of Africa. According to Alaka and Company Advocates, the law firm that was representing …

By Patrick Kagenda When Orange Telecom, the fifth telephony company on the Ugandan market, launched its operations on Tuesday Mar 10, existing players reacted in different ways. MTN (Uganda) Chief Marketing Officer, Mr Isaac Nsereko, told The Independent that five operators are too big for the Ugandan market which is …

By The Independent Team In the story Family Rule In Uganda: How The Museveni Clan Runs Government in our Issue 050 of The Independent, only a small list of the president’s relatives in government was mentioned in the story. In this issue, we publish a bigger list of relatives and …

By Kibuuka Steven Margaret Kirisa Mbeiza, woman MP for Kaliro District was appointed by President Yoweri Museveni to become the state minister for Economic Monitoring. She failed to go through the vetting process at Parliament and her approval was deferred for further clarification from the president. She talked to The …

By Odoobo C. Bichachi & P. Matsiko wa Mucoori Kololo meetings celebrate Otafiire ‘downfall’; 2016 is too far to wait In his autobiography, Sowing the Mustard Seed; the Struggle for Freedom and Democracy in Uganda, President Yoweri Museveni argued that in his search for power, former Ugandan President Milton Obote …

By Henry Zakumumpa A growing body of evidence suggests that oil, far from being a blessing to African countries is a curse. Without exception, every developing country where oil has been discovered has seen its standard of living decline and its people suffer, while its less endowed neighbours have gone …

By Mahmood Mamdani This is the last of a four-part series in which renowned Ugandan scholar Professor Mahmood Mamdani examines the historical causes of Zimbabwe’s crisis. Besides drought and reform, there is a third cause of declining production: the targeted donor boycott. Zimbabwe has been the target of Western sanctions …