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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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

By Jocelyn Edwards UPDF pushes in more force but local leaders want Community Security System On April 24, a force of UPDF soldiers surrounded a kraal in Jie County in Karamoja and began firing on the animals and people inside.  In a cordon and search operation the army says was …

The Independent Team Maj. Gen. Benon Biraaro is the brain behind the Local Investment for Transformation (LIFT) Uganda. He spoke to The Independent`s Patrick Kagenda. What is Lift Uganda? Lift is an acronym for Local Investment for Transformation. I conceived it with friends in 1997. We wanted to see how …

By Andrew M. Mwenda   Kayumba Nyamwasa’s response to President Paul Kagame’s interview in Sunday Monitor filled my inbox. Friends and fans wrote asking me to comment. So, let me reluctantly give my $1 worth of comment. His letter was sober and calm; and coming from an insider, it was interesting journalistically. …

By Isaac Mufumba Museveni’s electioneering at state of the nation address raises intriguing questions What do you say about a president who promises to increase the nations electricity power supply by 3,200 megawatts in five years when he has been in power for 24 years and, over that period, managed …