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By Eriasa Mukiibi Sserunjogi Mengo waiting for Bbumba’s action to sue government Buganda Kingdom Attorney General Apollo Makubuya is worn down by waiting. For six months, he says he has been looking out for one entry in the Uganda Gazette to be able to implement a directive of the Buganda …

The world is safer today than in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks on the United States, with global terror groups weaker than 10 years ago, senior EU and NATO officials have said. A decade after Al-Qaeda traumatised the United States, the terror network has lost its leader, Osama …

By Andrew M. Mwenda & P. Matsiko wa Mucoori Was the opposition planning to use him in post-election uprising? The government intelligence alleges that renegade Col. Edison Muzoora who died mysteriously on or around May 27 this year, was at the centre of an opposition plan to create post-election violence …

By Andrew M. Mwenda In the last 14 years and with US $2.1 billion spent, less than 50 cases have been heard  in the Tribunal for Rwanda in Arusha The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any ideas of them …

By Eriasa Mukiibi Sserunjogi UPC me off MP Betty Amongi walks tight rope between two party camps Shortly after the February presidential which he lost, opposition Uganda Peoples Congress (UPC) President, Olara Otunnu, summoned Betty Amongi, who had won the Oyam South MP seat. Otunnu’s intelligence had alerted him that …

By Andrew M. Mwenda The disastrous collapse of public services under NRM is a product of the way in which democracy has evolved rather than its absence On Saturday September 24, I went to my old school, Busoga College Mwiri, to attend celebrations marking its 100th birthday. It was a …

By Mubatsi Asinja Habati President Yoweri Museveni says the scarcity of sugar warrants giving away one third of Mabira forest to the Mehta Group to grow sugar. Advocates Coalition for Development and Environment (ACODE) Executive Director Godber Tumushabe spoke to Mubatsi Asinja Habati about the cost of giving away part …

By Mubatsi Asinja Habati Says after just four months in office, she has recovered over Shs58bn on fake accounts, improved garbage collection by 60%, and cut fuel wastage from Shs 250m per were to 80m. The Independent’s Mubatsi Asinja Habati spoke to her. Where do you feel you have been …

By Andrew M. Mwenda What does it mean for Museveni? Sometime last year, the then Libyan strongman, Muammar El Gaddafi sent an emissary to President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda. According to sources inside State House, Gaddafi’s messenger carried an ultimatum to Museveni: if you do not support my project of …

By Andrew M. Mwenda I hope that my prediction is wrong because future generations of Libyans will be happy that I was wrong. I am writing this column on the morning of Monday August 22nd. By the time it is read, Libyan leader Muammar El Gaddafi might no longer be …