By Independent Reporter Until May 23, Prof. Gilbert Balibaseka Bukenya was Uganda’s vice president. He spoke to The Independent about life after leaving the office he held for nine years. Did your appointment as vice president the first time come as a surprise to you or did you expect it? …
Read More »Oil bribery scandal
By Independent Investigations The story behind the news In August 2010, a source brought to The Independent a series of documents showing bank transfers of large amounts of money to two ministers: Sam Kutesa of Foreign Affairs and Hillary Onek, then of Energy and Mineral Development. According to the documents, …
Read More »Here is Rudasingwa’s moral bankruptcy
By Andrew M. Mwenda A man who can admit to being a liar should not make claims and they are taken seriously Former director of cabinet in Rwanda, Theogene Rudasingwa, was a major item on BBC World Service. He claimed that President Paul Kagame boasted to him that it was …
Read More »To cure the economy
By Joseph E. Stiglitz The prescription for what ails the global economy follows directly from the diagnosis: strong government expenditures As the economic slump that began in 2007 persists, the question on everyone’s minds is obvious: Why? Unless we have a better understanding of the causes of the crisis, we …
Read More »The children of Independence speak-out
By Rukiya Makuma People were poorer than today but they did not notice it – James Tumusiime In 1962, James Tumusiime, now Group Managing Director of Fountain Publishers Limited was barely 10 and a primary four pupil at Kinoni Primary school in Mbarara district. He could tell that something important …
Read More »A Global Agenda for Seven Billion
By Ban Ki-moon Women hold up more than half the sky and represent much of the world’s unrealized potential Late next month, a child will be born – the 7th billion citizen of planet Earth. We will never know the circumstances into which he or she was born. We do know …
Read More »Coffee prices up but Bugisu farmers downcast
By Agather Atuhaire Allegations of forged accounts and government meddling leave their once-vibrant union on the brink of closure Coffee prices are at an all time high but farmers of the Bugisu Cooperative Union (BCU) in eastern Uganda have never seen darker days as a mixture of local and national …
Read More »Ugandan top ministers took bribes from Tullow oil – parliament told
Uganda’s Prime Minister, Amama Mbabazi and two other ministers were on Oct.10 have allegedly benefited from bribes from oil companies, parliament heard yesterday at a critical debate about the country’s nascent oil sector. A jam parked parliament that had been recalled from recess heard that Mbabazi, Sam Kuteesa, the …
Read More »Someone wants to kill me
By Independent Reporter Until May 23, Prof. Gilbert Balibaseka Bukenya was Uganda’s vice president. He spoke to The Independent about life after leaving the office he held for nine years. Your Excellency, what is life like outside the corridors of power and the number two guy in the country? I …
Read More »Bukenya’s worst mistakes
By Mubatsi Asinja Habati How the CHOGM corruption case benefits the mafia, Museveni, and the donors When former vice president Gilbert Bukenya was sent to Luzira Maximum Security Prison on Oct. 3 on allegations of corruption, it looked like the final blow to a man who has always exuded confidence …
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