By Haggai Matsiko Army that beat Machar’s fighters faces an unceremonious exit A potholed runway ushers you into Juba International Airport—the most critical South Sudan government installation.  A small old stuffy building with dusty window panes and a dusty cracked cement floor, the terminal is manned by policemen who don …

By Andrew M. Mwenda The changing face of the Ugandan army and what it says about Museveni’s plans for the future Imade my career in the late 1990s and early 2000s in large part by investigating and reporting on corruption and incompetence in the Uganda Peoples’ Defense Forces (UPDF). The …

By Julius Businge MazenMroue, the Chief Executive Officer of MTN Uganda will soon be leaving Uganda to settle in his new position of Chief Operations Officer of MTN Irancell, MTN Group announced on June 25. He will be succeeded in Uganda by Brian Gouldie, the Chief Marketing Officer of MTN …

By Julius Businge The Government of Uganda through the National Information Technology Authority Uganda (NITA-U) is committed to uplifting the standards of the Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) industry to benefit the country in terms of job creation and economic growth. Speaking at the BPO standards dissemination workshop in Kampala on …

By Julius Businge Uganda, East Africa’s third largest economy has been urged to appropriately utilize its natural resources so as to better position itself among the poor but growing economies in Africa and the world in general. Speaking at the opening of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) meeting held …

By Patrick Kagenda After the Uganda Communications Commission issuing a notice to all telecom operators to stop sending unsolicited SMS to their clients, UTL has come up with an innovation that will enable a client to block any unsolicited SMS. In a statement, Uganda Telecom said it has introduced Do …

By Patrick Kagenda The Speaker of Parliament Rebbeca Kadaga has pledged parliament’s support to industries that promote agro processing in Uganda. Kadaga said this while meeting the new Managing Director of Nile Breweries Limited (NBL), and Rwenzori Bottling Company (RBC), Greg Metcalf, at her office on Monday, June 23, 2014. …

By Haggai Matsiko Is she the reason Uganda’s most expensive parliament cannot deliver? The Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga, continues notching good ratings in opinion polls and among commentators on public affairs. However, the same cannot be said of her House and its 385 legislators.  In a recent poll by …

By Andrew M. Mwenda How Lincoln made history on slavery and Museveni succumbed to the pressures for social conservatism I have been forced by friends and fans to reply to Joseph Bossa’s otherwise good defence of former U.S. president Abraham Lincoln (The Independent May 02-08 and Daily Monitor May 11). …

By Julius Businge The National Information Technology Authority Uganda (NITA-U) has set July as a month when all government institutions will start adhering to regulations regarding the use of the internet. Stella Alibateesa, the acting executive director at NITA-U said on the sidelines of the e-government regulations conference in Kampala …