By Katharina Pistor Debt burdens are growing yet excessive reliance on debt finance is undermining basic tenets of democracy When Greece’s sovereign-debt crisis threatened the euro’s survival, US officials called their European counterparts to express bewilderment at their inability to resolve the issue. Now, the tables have turned, with American …
Read More »Chaos in FDC
By Haggai Matsiko How the tussle between top party guns over Mafabi’s job is giving Muntu headache Gen. Mugisha Muntu, the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) President, faced a tough choice on Nandala Mafabi, his former opponent, a head of a top party governing body meeting on Oct.22. A move …
Read More »Uganda’s local content and the contradiction of self empowerment
By Bob A. Kasango & Job A. Kahigwa Oil and Gas industry to enrich foreigners and a few well-connected people at the expense of Ugandans Lately, ‘local content’ has become topical issue, and many countries are enacting laws to make it mandatory for all stakeholders of specified industries. But, what is ‘local …
Read More »Do suffering Africans a favour, don’t help them
By Andrew M. Mwenda People who are not willing to fight for their freedom and pay the highest price for it do not deserve to be free The idea that only the international community (read the West) can save Africa has gained hegemonic status. This is expressed in many ways: …
Read More »IGAD salutes Karamoja effort
By Ronald Musoke Sustaining pastoralism seen as the only sure way to steady development in the region If the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) meeting of ministers held on Oct.14 in Kampala is anything to go by, efforts to develop the Karamoja region are reaping positive results. Speaking at the …
Read More »Slippery justice for oil spill victims
By Yemisi Akinbobola Lessons for Uganda as Nigerian villagers lose lawsuit against oil giant In a stunning and dramatic legal ruling that echoed from the serene court chambers in the Netherlands to the heart of rural Niger Delta in Nigeria, the District Court of The Hague dismissed all but one …
Read More »Goodbye Bernard Onyango: 1930 – 2013
By Ronald Musoke Uganda’s favourite registrar bows out Bernard Onyango, 83, passed away recently after distinguishing himself in a 30-year stint in the academic Registrar’s Office at Makerere University, and another decade as the founding registrar at Uganda Martyrs University, Nkozi. A his requiem mass at Makerere University’s St. Augustine …
Read More »Inside the placebo effect
By Ted J. Kaptchuk and John M. Kelley This “placebo drift” poses significant challenges to detecting drug-placebo differences For many medical researchers and followers of science, few things are more unsettling than the placebo effect. How can an inert sugar pill have therapeutic value? The answer requires understanding the context …
Read More »Either reform or be prosecuted – new DPP
By Stephen Kafeero Mike Chibita a former High Court judge is the new Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP). He spoke to Stephen Kafeero about his life and new role. From a judge to a prosecutor, how will you manage the change? By God’s grace, I will manage. There will be …
Read More »DRC’s Kabila to create unity government
By The Independent Team President Joseph Kabila announced on Wednesday that he is ready to create a unity government aimed at ending years of war in the country. Kabila made the remarks while at a public speech. “A government of national unity will be soon put in place,” he said. …
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