By Andrew M. Mwenda On October 24th, I went to Entebbe Airport to catch a South African Airways flight via Johannesburg to Namibia. Airline officials said I needed a transit visa through South Africa. I explained that I was not going to enter the country, only to change flights in …
Read More »Buganda trading her support for a political ransom
By Joseph Ossiya You cannot change what you will not confront. When one considers the historical aspects of the birth of the entity Uganda, they are fraught with political landmines and buried skeletons, the types of which have the capacity to unravel its very identity and challenge its existence. The …
Read More »Kigali One Stop Centre addresses woes in the construction sector
By kabona esiara Projects worth Rwf 219 billion registered The experts are busy. Some are attending to clients trickling at intervals, while others are scrutinizing a pile of documents submitted by people seeking construction permits. These architects, engineers, surveyors and environmentalists who used to be scattered in different parts of …
Read More »Guilty! Under cloud of suspicion
By matthew stein More than four months after Jean-Leonard Rugambage, the outspoken deputy editor of Umuvugizi newspaper was shot outside his home in Kigali, his killers have been sentenced to life in prison. Rwanda’s High Court sitting in Kimihurura, ruled that Didace Nduguyangu was guilty of ‘homicide and illegal possession …
Read More »New crime wave
By rukiya makuma Iron bar hit men spread terror beyond Kampala Property crime up in Mbarara Corporal Patrick Nyamua, RA No. 162991, a chief clerk in Bombo General Military Hospital, is fighting for his life in ward 3A, bed 11, in Mulago National Referral Hospital, Kampala. He has …
Read More »The country is at war. Did you know?
By Matthew Stein War discretion debate in the newsroom made easier by despondent public Early last week numerous newsrooms around the country received a conspicuous email from an individual who referred to himself only as Diablo (devil) Man. The email, which was entitled, What the Ugandan government is hiding from …
Read More »How growth can benefit the masses
By Andrew M. Mwenda On Wednesday last week, the Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS) published results of its National Household Survey which showed that the proportion of people living in poverty has declined from 31 to 23%. It was good news for President Yoweri Museveni who had just been nominated …
Read More »Dictatorships too have not helped Africa to develop
By Kennedy Opalo What is good for the goose ought to be good for the gander or so you would think. In an era when the rise of China and India is forcing the question what the relationship wealth creation has to the type of government; whether democratic or authoritarian …
Read More »Don’t be intimidated, ask the tough questions
By Haggai Matsiko Tim Sebastian, the former host of BBC’s Hard Talk show, is the chairman of the Doha Debates, a forum for free speech in Qatar. Haggai Matsiko spoke to him. Many people know you as a man of all questions, always preferring to grill politicians and some people …
Read More »Independents expose holes in NRM socks
By Andrew M.Mwenda With nominations for parliamentary candidates finished, independents (largely malcontents who lost in the NRM primaries) are now the largest political party in the contest albeit a non-organised and unconscious one. By November 30, out of the 238 directly contestable seats, independents had fielded 269 candidates (in 95 …
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