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By Flavia Nassaka Even if you work 24/7 with computers Do you work in a medium or large organization with a lot of office based staff? Do most of them use computers for long periods? If so, what proportion of workers wears specs or spectacles, eyeglass or merely glasses if …

By Ronald Musoke Wakisa Ministries gives unwanted teenage mothers a home Behind the high walls of a spacious house at Bakuli, a suburb about 5km west of Kampala city centre is Wakisa Ministries— Uganda’s only teenage pregnancy crisis centre. The 27 girls we found here when we visited should normally …

By Independent Team What it really says about Ugandan politics Until Aug.17, the de facto leader of the Opposition, Retired Col. Kizza Besigye and former Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi were on opposite sides in Uganda’s two-horse race politics. Unknown by many people, a major swift occurred that morning when Mbabazi …

By. Andrew M. Mwenda Why the opposition is courting danger in seeking to field one candidate and the risks of a three horse race Last week, the opposition was involved in skirmishes regarding the selection of a joint presidential candidate under The Democratic Alliance (TDA). The alliance seemed biased on …

At the end of 2015, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) will expire. These will be replaced by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) soon to be adopted at the United Nations Summit by 193 member states of United Nations. But what are those new Global Goals for Sustainable Development?These are the …

By Andrew M. Mwenda How Nyakairima took UPDF out of headlines and has left a professional respected military Sometime in 2003, President Yoweri Museveni chaired a meeting of the army high command to discuss highly sensitive matters. The proceedings leaked to me. I was happy to publish a story about …

By Martin M. Lwanga The collapse of realpolitik and pursuit of interventionism created a vacuum filled by terrorists and anarchists What we are witnessing today in Syria, Libya, Yemen and Eritrea with masses of hapless human beings abandoning their nations in search of safe pastures in the West is a …

By Dr Geoffrey A Onegi-Obel An August of significant events and worldwide economic slowdown is washed out by politics The Uganda Securities Exchange All Share Index which stood at 1,852.00 at the start of week two of September gained +6.00points at the end. But to put it simply – elsewhere …

By Agnes E. Nantaba John Karionji is the CEO of Insurance Company of East Africa (ICEA)-General. He spoke to Agnes E. Nantaba about the pertinent issues in the insurance industry in the country. What are the key elements in your management philosophy as a manager? Believing in the people and …

By Christina Malmberg Calvo Promote more efficient land use to support a shift towards higher value economic activities By 2040, Uganda expects to have realised its vision of a transformed economy. Commercialisation of agriculture and urbanisation are key processes to raised productivity and transformation.  Both processes require an efficient and …