In The Magazine

By Independent Team Why can’t the President sack the PM? A few days after The Independent published the article, “Battle for 2016: An inside account of the war between Museveni and Mbabazi” (The Independent Dec. 6), we caught up with Vice President Edward Ssekandi at the Munyonyo Commonwealth Resort after …

January Jan. 5: KCCA unveils $39billion Kampala Physical Development Plan (PDP) to cover the city’s development from 2012 to 2040 Jan. 7: 127 MPs sign petition to the speaker to recall parliament from recess to debate matters relating to the death of Butaleja Woman MP Cerinah Nebanda Jan7: Adam Kalungi …

By Joan Akello Experts explain why the government should first focus on good governance On June 26, the Anti-corruption Court in Kampala found the former principle accountant in the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM), Godfrey Kazinda, guilty on 29 counts including fraud and forgery and sentenced him to five …

By Joan Akello Former opposition Forum for Democratic Change chairman, Sam Kalega Njuba, died Dec.13 of intestinal complications at Nsambya Hospital in Kampala. He was 72 years old. The lawyer, politician, and academic had been battling illness. Former FDC President, Dr Kizza Besigye said Uganda has lost a wonderful man …

By Werner Bergholz Technology advances have reduced the price of  simple, universal, scalable photovoltaics by as much as 75% An estimated 1.2 billion people worldwide, including 550 million in Africa and 400 million in India, have no access to electricity. Most live in rural areas where the population is sparse …

By Peter Nyanzi Ronnie Mayanja is an organizer of the Uganda Diaspora Network which brings together Ugandans living and working abroad. He spoke to Peter Nyanzi about their activities and the planned Gala event in Kampala this December. What is the background/history of the Ugandan Diaspora Network? The Ugandan Diaspora …

By Andrew M. Mwenda Why the opposition leader cannot dare seek a compromise with Museveni because he would be accused of selling out Now that we have finished mourning and burying Nelson Mandela, we can celebrate his life by asking ourselves: can opposition leader Kizza Besigye act like him? If …

By William Lacy Swing For several years I have been saying that migration can be summed up by a series of D words: Demographics, Disasters, Demand, Disparities and Dreams. This year I am adding a new D: Desperation. The world watched in horror in October when some 360 African migrants …

By Ronald Musoke Paul Walker, the American film actor who died recently, Nelson Mandela— the fallen South African freedom fighter and statesman— and the rare Hybrid Solar Eclipse were the search queries that topped Google search engine’s 2013 trending list among Ugandan internet users according to Google’s Zeitgeist results released …

By Sarah Namulondo Mulago hospital intern doctors and nurses have gone on strike over delayed salary payment for last month of November. Patients have been seated at the hospitals casualty in a bid to lure the doctors and nurses into giving up on the strike and look into treating them …