By Séverine Koen Following French footprints Its hard to believe Enora Nedelec and Guillaume Combot have been walking for over a year. Smiling, energetic and fresh-faced, one cannot readily fathom that they have been living all this time without the comforts of a home and have more than 4,000 km …
Read More »New Bill spells doom for Ugandan press freedom
By Jocelyn Edwards On September 10th last year, police stormed the transmission room of the Baganda kingdoms Central Broadcasting Services (CBS) and carried away a link to the transmitter. The station suddenly went off the air. Its licence had been revoked by the Broadcasting Council for allegedly stirring up tribal …
Read More »Mao’s win as DP leader isn’t north strategy to secede from Uganda
By Harold Acemah In Issue No. 101 of The Independent (March 5 , 11, 2010), Abbey Kibirige in an interesting and otherwise balanced article raised, in my view, a false alarm about ‘Mao’s motives in taking over DP’ and concluded that Mao could have a hidden agenda to use his leadership …
Read More »We have common target but different identity- Otunnu
By Patrick Kagenda The Independent’s Patrick Kagenda talked to the new UPC president Ambassador Otunnu about the party’s future. Word around is that you are targeting the national presidency and that if you should fail, then you will return to exile. What is your position? I decided after a long …
Read More »Homosexuality: Should culture be a basis for law?
By Maya Prabhu On March 1, Speaker of Parliament Edward Ssekandi was presented with a petition bearing the signatures of 450,000 people calling for the rejection of the Anti Homosexuality Bill, 2009. The petition was written, and undersigned, by a group referring to themselves as AIDS service providers, spiritual mentors …
Read More »Why Ssempa should be opposed
By Andrew M. Mwenda I was on a train at New York’s Grand Central Station on March 5 when a friend from my days at Stanford University entered. I was overjoyed yet embarrassed; one part of me wanted to hug her, the other to hide. She is a successful lawyer …
Read More »Climate change poses new challenges
By Maya Prabhu The rains have come. The streets of Kampala run fluid brown, ladies heads are half-hidden under thin plastic bags as they hop from island to island along the roadsides, and inside-out umbrellas quiver uselessly in the hands of miserable boda-boda passengers. Early in the hours of Feb. …
Read More »Bududa
By Joseph Were The day the mountain Moved One survivor said it sounded like a bomb explosion. Another said the mud moved so fast that victims had no chance to escape. One man was in a church praying when he saw the mountain of rocks, debris, and mud pummeling downhill. …
Read More »Why do rural children starve amidst plenty?
By Rukiya Makuma WFP moves to answer that question with sensitisation and food support Kambasa Salimu is severely malnourished. At five years old, he has a body mass index of a four months old child. Weighing only 8.4 kg and 85 cm in height, he is emaciated with a protruding …
Read More »LC officials steal relief supplies
By Jocelyn Edwards Children pushed and shoved each other, with their hands outstretched, as Joseph Makwa, the head teacher at the secondary school where victims of the Bududa mudslide have been sheltered, handed out biscuits. Last week there were signs that bureaucracy and corruption have prevented villagers from getting the …
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