In The Magazine

By Charles Onyango-Obbo The normal, the unusual, and very strange things about Kenya election Kenya went to the polls on March 4. It was the first election under the new and quite liberal constitution that was adopted in August 2010. For Ugandans seeking to understand how the election played out, …

Kenya’s deputy Prime Minister, Uhuru Kenyatta, has won the presidential election by a very tight margin. Mr Kenyatta garnered 6,173,433 votes out of 12,338,667 total votes cast in last Monday’s election giving him 50.03 per cent required to win while his main challenger Raila Odinga garnered 5,340,546 (43.28) per cent. These figures …

By Andrew M. Mwenda In his willingness to change his mind in the face of new facts, he embodied the finest traits of intellectual self-confidence I spent most of Saturday March 2 night staring at my computer at home trying to write an obituary of the First Deputy Prime Minister …

By Ian Katusiime Ugandan student Titus Mawana, 22 who emerged among the winners of Apps4Africa, a technology business challenge that was conducted online with participants from 27 countries in Africa. Mawana stood out alongside two other African students from Nigeria and Ghana. His initiative Ffene is a low cost business …

By Julius Businge The Bank of Uganda has for the fourth consecutive month maintained the Central Bank Rate (CBR) at 12% in March, according to the Monetary Policy Statement issued by the bank on March 5. The Bank said inflationary pressures have remained below single digits and that meant maintaining …

By The Independent Team Kenyans will today choose a president, members of parliament and senators, county governors and members of the newly formed county assembly. The Presidential race that has eight candidates vying for the post has been seen by many observers as mainly a two-horse race with Prime Minister …

By Bob Kasango The Catholic Church has had three African popes. Is 2013, the year of Africa? On Feb. 28, Benedict XVI will become the first pope to resign in almost 600 years. That is not just tradition; it is dogma. In the past 1000 years, only four other popes …

By Alan Ssempebwa Can it turn its debt riddled, loss-making enterprise into an easy profit making opportunity? A noticeable omission to Kampala’s landscape has left an awkward gap in the city’s transport system. Having rolled out onto the streets of Kampala in March last year to nullify the effects of …

By Haggai Matsiko Works PS Muganzi quizzed over Shs 15bn `ghost’ project The police has interrogated officials of the Ministry of Works, including the Permanent secretary, Charles Muganzi, in connection with an alleged `ghost’ project in which the government is feared to have lost over Shs 15 billion. The racket …

By Andrew M. Mwenda Becoming the 1st revolutionary leader to leave voluntarily On February 8, 2012, Rwanda’s ruling party, the Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF) held a meeting attended by over 2,000 delegates. At that conference, President Paul Kagame introduced two subjects: the challenges facing the country from the international community’s …