In The Magazine

By Moses Ngorok China has pursued a bold policy of reaching out to countries in Africa in ways that advance Beijing‘s agenda When America sneezes, the rest of the world catches a cold. A phrase repeatedly and calculatedly used in American diplomatic circles to emphasize America’s superior economy and bully …

By Esther Dyson What will be the net economic value of people spending time attracting others’ attention by accumulating “likes”? I was recently posed the following question: “The most important way in which the Internet and online social media are changing our world is [fill in the blank].” My standard …

By Independent Analysts Will Uganda become an open dictatorship in 2013? On December 12, 2012, President Yoweri Museveni was in Russia and met with President Vladimir Putin at the Novo Ogaryovo, the official residence. It was an interesting meeting because, although President Museveni has been in power for 26 years, …

2012 was truly a year of lows; such as the crash of the UPDF choppers in Kenya, the unending tales of corruption in high places, and the spate of virulent attacks of Ebola and Marburg. But it is also a year when Uganda was lifted high when an unknown runner, …

By Julius Odeke The Special Representative of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission  (SRCC)  for  Somalia,  Ambassador  Mahamat  Annadif  has congratulated President  Hassan  Sheikh  Mahamoud,  his  government and  the  people  of  Somalia  on  the occasion of the 41st anniversary of the National Intelligence and Security Agency (NISA) and the …

Marking a generational change, Tata, who turned 75 on December 28, 2012, handed over the reins of the group to 44-year-old Cyrus Mistry who was chosen his successor in 2011 year and formally appointed Chairman in December 2012. Ratan Tata, who led the transformation of the Tata group from a …

By Agencies Uruguay has the second highest income per person in Latin America at US$ 15,840; about 30 times that of Uganda and ahead of Brazil, Argentina, and Mexico. It’s a common grumble that politicians’ lifestyles are far removed from those of their electorate. Not so in Uruguay. Meet the …

By Andrew M. Mwenda The death of Nabenda and the attention it has attracted shows how distant from real issues our political discourse has gotten The death of the Woman Member of Parliament for Butaleja District, Cerinah Arioru Nebanda and the resultant hullabaloo around it reflects the crisis of the …

By Sarah Namulondo The Minister of Trade, Industry and Cooperatives, Hon Amelia Kyambadde has today said that the implementation of the pre-verification on conformity of imports (PVOC) date has been extended as a government decision to harmonise various technical and logistical requirements. The implementation which was set to begin on …

By Julius Odeke The former party president Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) Dr Kizza Besigye warns that the current political faith by the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) party is likely to throw the country into political turmoil. Besigye points out the manner in which government handled the death of …