In The Magazine

By Ronald Musoke & Joan Akello The sixth ‘Home is the Best’ Summit organized by the Uganda Investment Authority (UIA) for Ugandans in the Diaspora returning home for Christmas is slated to take place on Dec. 28. Ugandans living and working abroad have in recent times been recognized by the …

By Ronald Musoke In a deliberate effort to promote democracy, the US Embassy in Uganda is introducing a monthly debate programme to encourage critical thinking, personal expression, and tolerance for the opinions of others. The first debate will take place at the U.S. Mission’s Information Resource Center, U.S. Embassy in …

By Independent Team Why pass a costly law you cannot enforce? On Monday Aug. 6, America’s top magazine for sophisticated high-end readers, The New Yorker, published an article online entitled, `Gay and Proud in Uganda’. Written by Alexis Okeowo, the story reported the first-ever Gay Pride Parade in Uganda at …

By Haggai Matsiko The bottom-line of the chaos over Clause 9 of the oil Bill On Friday Dec. 06, President Yoweri Museveni presided over an unusual caucus of MPs from his ruling party, NRM, in parliament.  Altogether, there were 130 MPs. Museveni, looking somber, Museveni asked each of them to …

By Joan Akello Experts propose ways to ensure poor maintenance does not kill off Shs 3bn venture If fuel shortage causes a stampede at the fuel pumps, imagine a patient on a hospital bed, gasping for breath, and needing urgent resuscitated with emergency oxygen. Unfortunately, if that patient is at …

By Ernest Rwamucyo African governments should know that aid commitments are a talk-show as donors can refuse to honour agreements The decision of some donors to suspend aid to Rwanda raises a fundamental question on the rationale for rich countries to give aid to poor countries. Is the major reason …

By Joseph Bossa Will Ugandans and donors wake up and fight corruption or tolerate it to the extent that it ceases to shock? A little more than forty years ago, an observation was made that foreign aid was aid from the poor people of the rich countries to the rich people …

By Andrew M. Mwenda The war on corruption is first and foremost a war over values and these have to be embedded in society first Let me finish the argument on corruption I left hanging last week: that actually, a war on corruption is as much a war of values …

By Ronald Musoke President Museveni may have talked tough accusing some MPs and civil society organizations of selling out to  ‘foreign interests’ but the latter have come out to respond, saying they are determined to fight on, to ensure that all Ugandans benefit from the oil resources. While appearing before …

By Julius Businge Charles Ocici, the executive director for Enterprise Uganda has advised the young entrepreneurs to always postpone some projects in their businesses whenever economic factors like inflation and the exchange rate become unfavorable. Ocici was speaking to The Independent in an exclusive interview in Kampala on Dec. 14. …