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By Kavuma Kaggwa How he put politics aside, to concentrate on industrialization, farming and building Uganda economically In the last fifty years of Independence, Uganda produced one great man, James Senkali Mulwana, who had exceptional natural intelligence and `political smartness’. James Mulwana was a fountain of knowledge in industrialisation and …

By Taeho Bark WTO can help governments achieve their two entirely different objectives; growth and distributional fairness If you chase two rabbits at once, the old saying goes, both will escape. And yet this is precisely what many governments are required to do: pursue both growth and distributional fairness. The …

By Julius Odeke Badru Kiggundu has been chairman of the Uganda Electoral Commission and managed national elections in 2006 and 2011. He spoke to The Independent’sJulius Odeke about why he is `as white as a white cock’. Butaleja is set for the woman MP by-election; will it be free and …

By Feliciah Kanyesigye The Uganda National Examinations Board (UNEB) released the Uganda Certificate of Education results on Feb. 7 at statistics house in kampala. According to the UNEB executive secretary, Matthew Bukenya, the UCE examinations were conducted successfully with no leakages and few cases of malpractice. Statistics indicate that of …

By Sarah Namulondo President Museveni has responded to the Sunday Monitor Feb 3rd published interview of Dr. Besigye. In his letter “clarifications of Besigye’s lies” he said Dr Besigye submission that the NRM has failed the economy by not living up to the point number five of the NRM programme …

By Julius Odeke 20 journalists in Uganda have completed a training workshop on safety and personal security run by ARTICLE 19. The training sessions have been designed to provide vital skills to enable them to work more effectively in an increasingly hostile environment for journalists. “This is a timely training …

By Julius Odeke The African Water Facility offered a 1 million euro grant to the Community Integrated Development Initiatives (CIDI) to support their Kawempe Urban Poor Sanitation Improvement Project (KUPSIP). The project is designed to provide affordable and sustainable sanitation services to over 100,000 urban poor living in the Kawempe …

By Geoffrey Mutegeki Araali Journalists and other human rights defenders are to get better legal, medical and family assistance under a 1.8 million Euros project launched byPan-African Human Rights Defenders Network (PAHRD-Net). The chairperson of PAHRD-Net, Hassan Shire Sheikh, said the3-year project aims at meeting the protection needs of human …

By Aloysious Kasoma The administration of the Nakivubo Blue Primary School has rubbished allegations that the school was closed down by Kampala Capital City Authority. Lwanga Kizza the headmaster of the more than 50 years old school confirmed to The Independent that what is circulating in the media about the …

By Sarah Namulondo As the day for the Feb 6 International Zero Tolerance for FGM day closes in, the minister of Gender and Cultural Affairs Hon Rukia Nakadama has called upon local government leaders  to work hand in hand with the ministry in stopping the practice of female genital mutilation …