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People and organisations in developing countries know what is best for them, so why are they regularly pushed to the sidelines by Western development aid?  | SIBILLA BONDOLFI | When he was 13, Bwaita Aggrey met Jacob and Frida from Sweden while walking around Jinja, a town in southeast Uganda …

What’s gone wrong in the fight against vaccine nationalism and hoarding of vaccines by rich countries? | RORY HORNER | The latest supply forecast for Covax – the programme for sharing COVID-19 vaccines around the world – suggests that accelerating vaccination in low-income countries looks unlikely. Covax estimates it will …

The COVID-19 pandemic has deepened global inequities. The world’s poor have borne the brunt of national lockdowns and will struggle to recover and poorer countries have been unable to rollout comprehensive vaccination campaigns because of a grossly unequal distribution of vaccines. On top of this COVID-19 has also derailed progress …

Why is the President insistent on a seemingly winless war? Kampala, Uganda | IAN KATUSIIME | What does President Yoweri Museveni have against two young opposition legislators; Muhammad Ssegirinya and Allan Ssewanyana so much as for him to revive his unpopular stance on bail? It is something that has vexed …

   How NRM and the ministry of foreign affairs have surrendered their political and diplomatic functions to intelligence agencies THE LAST WORD | ANDREW M. MWENDA | Uganda government is at war on many fronts. It has locked horns with Western governments and their domestic institutional agents – Non-Government Organisations …

  What’s behind Museveni move against bail? Kampala, Uganda | RONALD MUSOKE | President Yoweri Museveni has resurrected debate on courts granting bail and says he will now mobilise and solve the issue politically. Speaking Sept.27 during the 4th Memorial Lecture of the former Chief Justice, Benedicto Kiwanuka, held at …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | These are the top stories in this week’s THE INDEPENDENT. COVER STORY Hell over bail: What’s behind Museveni move against bail?? THE LAST WORD The triumph of security agencies: How NRM and the ministry of foreign affairs have surrendered their political and diplomatic functions to …

Wagner Group mercenaries are a sinister and troubling side of Russia in Africa which needs to be confronted COMMENT | HILDA NASSOZI MUKIIBI | Much of Africa and the developing world was for years fascinated by the Russian assault rifle; the Avtomat Kalashnikova (AK47) which the then-Union of Soviet Socialist …

I have seen that people are fast and blissful at celebrating death and least enthusiastic at preventing it COMMENT | MORRIS KOMAKECH | Most Ugandans die young and from preventable causes. The Ugandan Ministry of health claims in its 2016 report that malaria is the top killer of Ugandans while …

The vice is as dangerous as terrorism since its effect can be as severe if power is cut from security installations COMMENT | MBAGA TUZUNDE  | Vandalism of infrastructure is increasingly becoming a challenge to the country. The electricity, water, communication, and road sectors have all been affected by the …