In The Magazine

By Ronald Musoke Maria Kiwanuka, the finance minister has said she expects all electricity users in Uganda to have pre-paid metres within two years as a new measure to check power theft. While speaking to members of the private sector at a post-budget analysis luncheon on June 14, Kiwanuka noted …

By Ronald Musoke & Agencies The Africa Progress Panel has today urged the G8 leaders meeting at a two-day summit in Lough Erne, Northern Ireland, to make company ownership transparent, exchange tax information and support Africa’s tax collection agencies. The panel that advocates for equitable and sustainable development in Africa …

By Peter Nyanzi President’s frustration, lamentations at poor service delivery fail to lift population from hopelessness Of course it will be built, the question is when?” was a mechanic’s terse response to President Yoweri Museveni’s assertion during the State of the Nation Address on June 7 that the 600 MW …

By Ronald Musoke Why tasty Nile Perch is giving way to tiny Mukene Mathias Wafula is a worried man. As deputy executive secretary of the Lake Victoria Fisheries Organisation’s (LVFO), he is constantly analysing the fish stock of the world’s second largest fresh water body. That mainly involves analyzing the …

By Ronald Musoke President Yoweri Museveni spared some few minutes at yesterday’s budget reading to warn the Egyptian government against uttering ‘chauvinistic statements’ in regard to the use of the River Nile waters. Museveni’s caution followed an impassioned speech  by the Egyptian President, Mohammed Morsi ,on June 10 when he …

By The Independent’s Investigative Team General’s fight linked to ICC In mid-April, the International Criminal Court (ICC) at The Hague in the Netherlands received a dossier on alleged human rights violations by the Uganda government generally, and President Yoweri Museveni and the Inspector General of Police, Gen. Kale Kayihura, specifically.  …

By Agencies At a time when blood banks report dangerously low supplies, the best argument for rolling up your sleeve is still to do someone else some good. But if University of Florida researcher Jerome Sullivan, M.D., is right — and there’s new evidence to suggest he is — giving …

By Agencies Study shows men who eat vegetable oils, avocados, nuts instead of animal fats better off Men with prostate cancer may boost their survival chances if they replace animal fats and carbohydrates in their diet with healthy fats such as olive oils, nuts and avocados, new research suggests. Men …

By Aryeh Neier Military and  guerrilla leaders, Presidents know they could face justice for crimes against humanity When the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) was established by the United Nations Security Council 20 years ago, on May 25, 1993, many regarded it as a meaningless gesture. At …

By Andrew M. Mwenda Museveni’s opponents have employed the same tactics as their adversary – and Ugandans no longer see a difference In the 1990s, the enemy of the government of Uganda was the government of Sudan in Khartoum. The Monitor newspaper I worked for was moderately critical of the …