By John Njoroge The governments failure to act on high level corruption will have implications, and donors under the Joint Budget Support Framework are currently considering a range of actions. This may include withholding disbursements, reductions in aid or re-programming away from direct budget support. These were the final remarks …
Read More »Politics ruined ICC conference
The Independent Team The Independents Mubatsi Asinja Habati spoke to Dismas Nkunda, co-director of the International Refugee Rights Initiatives (IRRI) about the first review conference of the Rome Statute, which establishes the International Criminal Court (ICC). How did ICC choose Uganda? I don’t know. There is a notion that they …
Read More »Superpowers affirm control over ICC at Kampala conference
By Mubatsi Asinja Habati What did the first-ever Review Conference of the Rome Statute, which founded the International Criminal Court (ICC), in Kampala achieve? Between May 31 and June 11 2010, delegates from 111 state parties to the 1998 Rome Statute, non-state parties like the United States of America, NGOs, …
Read More »Is boycotting 2011 elections logical?
By Samuel Olara It is generally accepted that election boycotts have no place in a functioning democracy – participation being at the heart of the democratic process. However, boycotts could have a monumental role to play in a non-functioning democracy where fair competition is practically impossible. The problem lies in …
Read More »Violence feared over 2011 elections
By Bob Roberts Katende & Isaac Mufumba Kiboko Squad: Opposition prepare to fight back Group compared to Mungiki He moves with a swagger. Wearing dark eyeglasses, he keeps rubbing his clenched right hand fist that reveals heavily scarred knuckles against his left hand palm throughout the interview. Thats Juma Ssemakula …
Read More »Who is benefiting from growth?
By Andrew M. Mwenda Uganda has sustained robust economic growth for the last 23 years, a fact that opponents of President Yoweri Musevei ignore actually to their disadvantage. This growth has produced a private sector and a political and bureaucratic class with money and power. In denying it, the …
Read More »Gen. Kayumba shooting
By Independent Team At 3pm on Saturday June 19, the Director General of National Security Services in Rwanda, Dr Emmanuel Ndahiro, was in a meeting with international visitors when he received a text message. According to sources in Kigali, the message was that Belgian intelligence had reported that former …
Read More »Violence will not deter us- Mugisha
The Independent Team Forum for Democratic Change mobiliser Anne Mugisha who recently returned from exile in the United States talked to The Independent’s Bob Roberts Katende about her plans in the forthcoming general elect ions. Below are excerpts. What incident triggered your fleeing from the country and how did you …
Read More »Inside State House
By Independent Investigations Team A look at the relationship between Museveni and Amelia Kyambadde The Sunday Vision newspaper of June 6 announced a ‘reshuffle’ in State House. The story said that a re-organisation had taken place at the president’s residence which also houses his private office. The re-organisation, the …
Read More »Smallholder women farmers
By Mubatsi Asinja Habati The ignored agriculture transformers that the government should target The key to addressing the hunger crisis in Uganda is to boost smallholders farming, especially among women, says a new report by ActionAid, an international anti-poverty agency. It adds: The reason is clear; most of the hungry …
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