In The Magazine

By Joan Akello and Ian Katusiime West Budama MP Fox Odoi who is one of the petitioners to challenge the Anti-Homosexuality law in the Constitutional Court, spoke to Joan Akello and Ian Katusiime about the gay issue What is the spirit of this petition? The spirit of this petition is …

By Andrew M. Mwenda History shows it was inevitable Mbabazi would fall on the sword of `sole’ candidate-culture In 1965, then opposition MPs introduced a motion on the floor of the National Assembly to repeal the Deportation Ordinance. This was a draconian colonial law that allowed the state to deport, …

By Jude Kagoro Re-interpreting the Uganda Police Force In the course of a six-month pre-field work preparation phase for research on the police practices in Uganda, I sat in my office at Bremen University in Germany reviewing articles on the force in the major Ugandan newspapers. In sum, the newspapers …

By Ronald Musoke Should we let this man destroy the Kinawataka wetland? Something dangerous is happening in the Kinawataka Swamp in the Banda area; a low-lying suburb about 10kms from Kampala city’s Central Business District along the eastern route. Since the beginning of this year, a mysterious encroacher has been …

By Shannon Teoh Finding a needle in a shifting haystack Scanning an endless white-speckled expanse of the blue Andaman Sea, Malaysian air force Captain Fareq Hassan’s team of spotters fight turbulence, nausea and mental strain in a seeming “Mission Impossible”: to find Flight 370. “This is not just a needle …

By The Independent team Inside the row between Rwanda and South Africa At 11 am on March 6, the Rwandan Chargé d’affaires in Pretoria, South Africa, Didier Rutembesa, was summoned to a meeting with the Director General of the Department of International Relations of the South Africa’s ministry of foreign …

By Patrick Kamara In the very late 1990s, the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) rebel force was clearly gaining momentum and stretching the entire Ugandan army along the difficult terrain only the Rwenzori Mountain can offer. They were no longer just at the border points or in the jungle; Jamil Mukulu’s …

By Kaggwa- Kavuma Can the party, which started in Buganda and is now under Nobert Mao from Acholiland, garner nationwide support? The Democratic Party (DP), Uganda’s oldest political Party, celebrated 60 years of its existence on March 1 at Gaba Beach just outside Kampala on the edge of Lake Victoria. …

By Kalundi Serumaga Commentary is now revolving around marveling at “Mzee’s” magezi in outmaneuvering yet another opponent One of the main problems faced in Uganda politics, is to find oneself trapped in an argument about who is “less wrong”, between two sides that are both in the wrong to begin …

By David Roberts and Nick Riesland Ideally, air-quality data should be widely disseminated so that city dwellers take appropriate action Fearsome stories about migrating Indonesian haze, post-Diwali smog in northern India, and the return of the “airpocalypse” in China tell of Asia’s recent air-pollution woes. Not confined to Asia, outdoor …