Opinion

  COMMENT | PAUL KALUNGI | “If you ever wish to understand anything, study its birth and its development”. So if you want to understand Bizonto’s drama on the current government in power, rather than reading the day’s headlines, study its development and evolution from FRONASA to PRA to NRA …

COMMENT | Joseph Mukasa Ngubwagye |  On Thursday, July 2, 2020, a one-year-old baby was attacked by a chimpanzee, biting its genitals off. The incident happened in Bulemwa village, Bujumbura Division, Hoima district. Reports indicated that the baby’s mother and a friend were out in the garden digging when this …

  COMMENT |  Hassan Saleh |  Globally, Pay-TV has from time to time continued to evolve, a change which can be greatly attributed to the advancement in technology and the demand to serve a dynamic audience that seeks out for content that captures their interests and preferences when it comes to …

  COMMENT | Hassan Saleh | Africa is on the rise in prominence and there has been a shift in the number of economic opportunities.  In fact, studies by Nielsen, a leading global information and measurement company, indicate that Africa is one of the fastest growing economies in the world. …

Adopt Universal Health Coverage to support the fight against COVID -19 and other related diseases in Uganda COMMENT | JOHN OKIIRA | According to the first global monitoring report published by the World Health Organization (WHO), universal health coverage is viewed as an intervention that enables all people to receive …

  THE LAST WORD | Andrew M. Mwenda | Last week, Bank of Uganda (BOU) issued a press statement in which it promised to appeal a ruling by the Court of Appeal in a case against businessman Sudhir Ruparelia over Crane Bank. Yet the statement did not deal with the …

  COMMENT | Micheal Ayebale | The ongoing debate as to which direction Uganda’s next election will take still rages on across all media, especially social media. Will it be a ‘scientific election’, that is predominantly played on media platforms like radio, TV and social media, or the traditional one …

  How a scientific election opens opportunities for the opposition in Uganda to perform better THE LAST WORD | ANDREW M. MWENDA | There is a popular Chinese saying that a wise person looks for an opportunity in every problem while a stupid looks for a problem in every opportunity. …

We need to seize the ‘handwashing with soap’ moment COMMENT | Dennis Alioni | Uganda’s handwashing rate shot up to an unprecedented 86% in the last three months, surpassing the country’s 2020 National Development Plan II target of 50% and the 2019 average of 36%. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, …

Ongo communal forest becomes another victim of the COVI-19 pandemic; a case of custodians becoming destroyers COMMENT | Daniel Abowe | The Ongo communal forest in western Uganda is shared by four villages of Ogadra, Kibali, Onieni, and Abangi in Kasenene parish, Budongo sub-county, Masindi district. In 2017, ECO-TRUST supported the Ongo …