COMMENT | Samson Tinka |Â On 18th November 2020, Kampala was the epicenter of deadly riots that hit part of the country, and over 50 people died while over 100 sustained both serious and minor injuries. Businesses were interrupted, tyres burnt, roads illegally closed, women and children were caught up in …
Read More »KAHERU: Let’s halt the campaigns
COMMENT | Crispin Kaheru | The physical campaigns are just not cutting it. They’ve just failed to work as envisaged. Uganda’s election campaigns have turned into war-like movies especially in circumstances where the opposition is involved. I want to re-emphasize, these campaigns as they are, aren’t working.  The enforcement of the …
Read More »AMIN: Joe Biden is not good for Africa
Biden was clearly elected by the vibrant and enterprising American people whom I love and respect so much. So it is fair to say that let him preside over them, not the rest of us COMMENT | Hussein Lumumba Amin | With all due respect, it is quite concerning to …
Read More »Col. Bantariza: A lion retires
THE LAST WORD | Andrew M. Mwenda | I woke up yesterday morning only to hear that the deputy head of the Uganda Media Centre Col. Shaban Bantariza is dead. The news struck me like a thunderbolt partly part because I least expected it but largely because Bantariza was not …
Read More »Why is over 70% of arts and crafts sold in Uganda imported?
COMMENT | By Amos Wekesa | Did you know that over 70% of the crafts sold around Uganda to Ugandans and foreign tourists are actually imported from Kenya, Tanzania, Zimbabwe and Congo? One can only imagine the number of jobs Ugandans are losing as a result of this trend, and therefore, the …
Read More »INSPIRATION: Let us persevere, endure, rise up and muster the courage
BLOGS | DR Freddie Rabelas Obligacion | Today, we set aside momentarily our troubles and concerns. Make this a time to celebrate and relish our achievements, big or small. Every day given to us is a chance to make the world better and an opportunity to show goodness and kindness …
Read More »How to ensure transparency in Uganda’s oil and gas sector
COMMENT | Hillary Turyatunga | Uganda’s efforts to join the Extractives Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) that were first expressed in the 2008 National Oil and gas policy recently saw Uganda joining the initiative, making it the 54th country in the world and 26th in Africa to subscribe. EITI is a …
Read More »Turning your Covid-19 innovations into viable businesses
COMMENT | Michael Jjingo | Certainly, the best innovations are created in response to specific, urgent, and significant problems, with a long-term focus. In some ways, the Covid-19 crisis has made our most urgent problems and their potential solutions more obvious. For example, health care providers needed masks; some …
Read More »Sudan, two years after Bashir
 Why those who want change in Uganda need to think much more creatively about what it means THE LAST WORD | Andrew Mwenda | Nearly two years since Gen. Omar El Bashir was removed from power through a popular uprising, Sudan is tottering on the edge of collapse. The government …
Read More »Time to believe that it is Uganda you are seeing!
The amazing story of the Rwenzori Mountains COMMENT | By Amos Wekesa | In the last thee weeks, we have seen lots of updates on Rwenzori Mountains on different platforms, and we must give credit to the Mountain Slayers…. The ‘Mountains slayers’ aren’t your usual slay queens and slay kings, but are …
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