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By Independent Team Between April 7, 2008 and March 11, 2009, there have been at least 95 fire incidents in schools all over the country, according to police statistics. In the last three months alone, at least seven schools and six markets have been set on fire with varying degree …

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 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 Andrew M. Mwenda Inside Bukenya’s struggle to remain VP On the evening of May 22 2003, President Yoweri Museveni called on his minister of Defence and close confidante, Amama Mbabazi to State House. According to highly placed sources, the president told Mbabazi that he would be announcing a cabinet …

By The Independent Team How Museveni’s ‘clan’ runs the government In his inaugural address as professor of history at Makerere University on June 18, 1986, the highly respected Ugandan historian, Samwiri Karugire, spelt out the problems of Africa. In a lecture titled ‘Wind of Change or Merely Change in the …

By Andrew M. Mwenda State House insiders describe how President is strategising to deal with First Lady’s growing political appeal President Yoweri Museveni’s cabinet reshuffle announced on February 17 has been the most revealing of his politics. Mr Museveni appointed his wife, Mrs Janet Museveni, state minister for Karamoja. By …

By Odoobo C. Bichachi Last week’s momentous FDC delegates conference at Mandela National Stadium in Namboole set the party on the high road to the 2011 general elections. It also set the newly re-elected party president Col. Dr Kizza Besigye on course for a third clash with incumbent and likely …

Kisangala Onghwens & Bob Roberts Katende A triumph for democracy or more of the same? The second FDC Delegates’ Conference was concluded in the early hours of Saturday morning last week with every party member praising the maturity of the exercise. With departmental report presentations dealt with on the first …

By Odoobo C. Bichachi  Power race heats up in FDC  Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) secretary for mobilisation Maj. Gen. Mugisha Muntu is challenging Dr Kizza Besigye for the position of party president. Aswa MP Reagan Okumu is itching to take over from Ogenga Latigo as leader of the opposition …

By Patrick Matsiko wa Mucoori Is she power hungry or a victim of bad politics? Former minister of Agriculture in the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) shadow cabinet Beti is described by many who know her as ‘excessively ambitious’ but also shrewd. To them, the current friction between her and …