IN THE INDEPENDENT: Museveni wants seven year term

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The top stories in this week’s The Independent.

COVER STORY
Museveni wants seven year term: Details of how his team plans to get it

THE LAST WORD
Inside Uganda’s healthcare tears: Why trying to do everything for everyone, everywhere has ended up doing little for anyone, anywhere.

MILITARY
Sexual violence and rebel armies: Study shows why rebels in Burundi and Uganda trained their fighters to scorn sexual coercion.

SOCIAL MEDIA
A philosopher rates Kanye West’s tweets: Kanye says: Truth is my goal. Controversy is my gym. I’ll do a hundred reps of controversy for a 6 pack of truth.

REVENUE
Rent law: Good intentions, bad incentives for property market: The proposed law will make rent expensive.

TAXATION
Uganda’s tax plan anti-growth?: New move to generate Shs 800bn but experts say it will stifle economic recovery, kill innovation.

BUSINESS
Safaricom backed Little-Ride to expand to 30 countries

HEALTH
Malaria kills 200 Ugandans everyday: New Novartis study shows why countries will miss malaria eradication targets despite successful prevention campaigns

SOCIETY
Kenya study leads to new way to fight HIV

HEALTH
Scientists at the University of Waterloo have developed a new tool to protect women from HIV infection

ARTS
What is the link between cultural taboos, goats?: Top artists, rural women, and foreign activists create perfect space to find out at Makerere.

MOTORING
The real meaning behind top car company logos in Uganda Sandra Suubi mixes music and art: Most people know Sandra Suubi as the girl who won the Airtel Trace competition 2015 and went on to launch a fledgling music career. Not many know that Suubi combines her music with art.

TOURISM
‘Rwanda: The Royal Tour’ premier excites: For a week, President Paul Kagame of Rwanda took renowned travel documentary maker, Peter Greenberg, on a tour of the country known as the “land of a thousand hills.”

RWANDA
New regulations for Rwanda forex: Forex bureau operators have until June to sign on to the new Rwanda Forex Bureau Association Information System (RFBAIS), according to their Chairperson, Zephania Muhigi.

TOURISM
Tears over dead lions: But pressure over resources remains between people and beasts in national park.