In The Magazine

By Andrew M. Mwenda Address to the students at Makerere University, June 8th 1991 ‘Coming to your problems, I would like to touch on your problem of electricity load shading ‘ a situation in which you have electricity for some hours after which it is taken to another place. These …

By Maria Burnett I kindly beg you to ensure that you keep our children. I don’t think I will be coming back.’ Those were the last words of Saidi Lutaaya, spoken over the phone to his wife. He had been picked up from Old Taxi Park in Kampala in November …

By Kalundi Serumaga Which came first: the instability of the region due to Somalia’s collapse, or Somalia’s collapse due to the instability of the region? Somalia’s story is a continuation of one that started centuries ago, and that stretches far beyond her 3000 km of troubled coastline. It is a …

By Onghwens Kisangala There is a bilateral dispute over the territorial positioning of Migingo Island. Kenya and Uganda are claiming the tiny rocky hill. Mr Patrick Ochieng, MP for Bukhooli South where the island currently falls, talked to The Independents Onghwens Kisangala about how it all started. You are the …

The Independent Team Justice John Bosco Katutsi, head of the new Anti-corruption Court, on April 8 delivered what the public described as a landmark judgement in the fight against graft when he convicted former director of economic monitoring in Presidents Office, Teddy Seezi Cheeye, for embezzlement and forgery. Cheeye was …

By Andrew M. Mwenda The current financial crisis in the West has exposed many myths that have informed Uganda’s banking policies over the last decade. One such myth was that international banks are well managed; that they cannot suffer a meltdown. This myth has made the governor of Bank of …

By John Njoroge In July 1987, President Yoweri Museveni while attending the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia was asked by journalists why his government continued to torture opponents yet it claimed it had come to end torture. According to a report in the New York …

By Independent Team Revenue police disbanded in 2006, no accountability ever given, impounded goods not explained Inspector General of Police (IGP) Maj. Gen. Kale Kayihura is in trouble over failure to account for at least Shs 15 billion while he was commander of the Special Revenue Protection Services (SRPS) between …

By P. Matsiko wa Mucoori and Rosebell Kagumire On April 8, Justice John Bosco Katutsi, who heads of the Anti-corruption Court, delivered a landmark judgement in the fight against corruption. He shared his experiences as a judicial officer from president Idi Amins era to the present day – under President …

By Richard Oundo Fifteen years after the genocide, Rwanda is shedding the old coat of political and economic turmoil and replacing it with a bustle of projects aimed at transforming the country into an East African economic giant. As part of that drive, on April 6, the first Presidential Advisory …