By Onghwens Kisangala The Independents Onghwens Kisangala talked to tAgriculture Minister Hillary Onek on the performance of the sector and how Uganda is dealing with food insecurity, high food prices and produce marketing. Agriculture is one of the most crucial sectors in the livelihoods of Ugandans but also is persistently …
Read More »Opposition picks up speed towards 2011
By Steven Kibuuka & Onghwens Kisangala Uganda Peoples Congress (UPC) held its delegates conference three weeks ago, agreeing to change the party constitution to enable early replacement of current party president Miria Obote after five years instead of seven. By contrast, the Democratic Party (DP), like Forum for Democratic Change …
Read More »Army to protect forests but critics claim hidden agenda
By Onghwens Kisangala Three weeks ago the minister of Water and Environment, Hon Maria Mutagamba announced plans to set up tight security to curb environmental crime in Uganda. She said her ministry, in conjunction with that of Defence have designed a White Paper to be presented to the cabinet for …
Read More »Uganda’s false start in building industries
By Juma A. Okuku In the fourth part of our Insight series on late industrialization, Juma A. Okuku comes home to Uganda, examining whether the country possess what it takes to carry out an industrial transformation. The first part was published in Issue 035. Does Uganda possess what it takes …
Read More »NSSF’s jinxed top job
By The Independent Team Abel Katembwe May 1998: NSSF board dismisses demands by parliament to send Katembwe on forced leave. NSSF initially resists and board chairman Sam Rutega defends him before parliamentarians as a hard working manager. But eventually Katembwe is sacked. Katembwe’s woes started after he bought a house …
Read More »Museveni misses Byanyima burial but sparks still fly
By Independent Reporter Members of President Yoweri Museveni’s party, the National Resistance Movement, arrived in droves for the funeral of Ms Gertrude Kabwasingo, the wife of the prominent politician, Mzee Boniface Byanyima. Among them was Minister Urban Tibamanya, Inspector General of Police Kale Kayihura, State House officials Grace Nyakwenegura and …
Read More »Let’s pick out Museveni’s good
By Andrew M. Mwenda Last week, I argued that President Yoweri Museveni has actively stifled the growth of a robust private enterprise sector generally though he has promoted the growth of individual businesses. He has pitted indigenous capital against non indigenous capital by giving preferential treatment to the latter and …
Read More »Floods return, find an unprepared govt
By Melina Platas After the floods of 2007 that affected over one million Ugandans, there was a flurry of activity as NGOs and government officials raced around to ensure that such a scale of destruction and death would not occur again. In January 2008 over 60 people from over 30 …
Read More »AIDS at 26
By Agnes Asiimwe Children born with virus in 1980s now dating Imagine youre a young person in love and things look really promising, except for one delicate matter, you were born HIV positive and your beloved has no clue about it. Disclosing to ones boyfriend or girlfriend – or a …
Read More »Why industrial transformation failed in Uganda and Africa
By Juma A. Okuku President Museveni continuously talks about the need for Uganda to industrialise. In the third part of our Insight series, Juma A. Okuku looks at the African experience and tries to answer why we have so far failed to industrialise. The first part was published in Issue …
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