By Mark Katwire His nationalisation rhetoric and controversial comments shook potential investors and threatened South Africa’s integrity As he put the finishing touches to his political science end year exam, Derek Hanekom, the ANC’s National Disciplinary Committee spokesman wrapped up a news conference confirming the immediate suspension of Julius Malema …
Read More »Makerere’s electric car: A lie or a promise?
By Dr Robert K. Rutaagi KEV could be Uganda’s wondrous opportunity Veteran novelist and socio-political commentator, Alan Tacca’s article, Makerere’s electric car: Has Museveni been duped? (Sunday Monitor, Nov. 13) seemed to have poured cold water onto the budding project. Before that, in the Sunday Monitor of Nov.6, celebrated and …
Read More »An alternative policy response to Uganda’s economic challenges
By Robin D. Kibuka Ph. D Uganda’s current challenges with food shortages, food inflation and overall price inflation, and a volatile exchange rate increasingly appear to be more entrenched than originally thought and are likely to continue to exert pressure on overall macroeconomic and poverty outcomes for some time to …
Read More »The Kanyeihamba Report
By Agather Atuhaire What next after Wildlife Authority minister Kamuntu rejects it? Since Justice George Kanyeihamba released the report of his inquiry into alleged corruption in the Ministry of Tourism, Trade and Industry (MTTI), the line minister, Ephraim Kamuntu has been in a pickle. He needs to act on the …
Read More »Post 9/11 America and post genocide Rwanda
By Andrew M. Mwenda Who should lecture the other about how to exercise restraint in the face of severe security threats? Last week, I was invited by Rwanda’s minister of foreign affairs, the pleasant Louise Mushikiwabo, to attend a public lecture by United States permanent representative to the United Nations, …
Read More »Oil bribes
By Eriasa Mukiibi Sserunjogi How Mbabazi lost round one Item no.6 on the Order Paper of Parliament on Nov. 9 was just 28 words. But its outcome could transform the relationship between parliament and the executive. Item 6 was a motion to force the most powerful member of President Yoweri …
Read More »Fighting the floods
By Mubatsi Asinja Habati Ugandan farmers fail to adjust to changing weather as counterparts surge ahead Forty-four year-old Regina Mbambu, a single mother of six, farms coffee inter-planted with spinach, mangoes, avocados, bananas, beans and maize on her one acre patch in Kasese district in western Uganda. Last year, most …
Read More »Better services for the bottom billion
By Obiageli Ezekwesili and Paul Collier Early results from a survey in Africa showed that pupils were taught for only two hours a day World leaders, governments, aid agencies, and NGOs, will converge on the Korean port city of Busan over the coming days to talk about making development aid …
Read More »Impunity of African leaders must end
By Prof. George Kanyeihamba There is need to establish institutional structures and transparent procedures to eliminate corruption In political, social and economic terms, impunity means contemptuous behaviour that is at variance with the accepted norms of legitimacy, decency, legalism and the well being, judgment and expectations of the majority of …
Read More »Separating fact from fiction
By Andrew M. Mwenda We cannot fight corruption using corrupt or unfair and unjust means On the opposite page, Nicolas Rugaba Agaba criticises me for taking the now infamous oil bribery documents to President Yoweri Museveni. He insinuates that this compromised my investigation since the President has no will to …
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