INDEPENDENT: How budget allows Museveni manage power

COVER STORY

Behind the 2017/18 budget: How money is an important a political resource that allows Museveni to manage power.

ANALYSIS
Politics behind the budget: Why UDB got Shs50bn, Museveni donations Shs70bn and more.

HEALTH
Mercury: Slow killer in Uganda’s gold mines: Inside one of the dozens of gold camps that dot the foothills and valleys of Mubende in central Uganda, the hustle and bustle is astounding.

EAST AFRICA
Region focus on infrastructural in the 2017/18 budgets: Governments in the East African Community seem to be determined to ease the cost of doing business in the region as they allocate massive budgets to infrastructural developments in the new financial year that start next month.

Rwanda budget boosts manufacturers: Scraps tax on imported textile machinery, tannery equipment.

AGRICULTURE
Exposed: Uganda’s secret GMO research. Money, politics behind the National Biotechnology and Biosafety Bill 2012.

SOCIETY
Changes at work trigger loss and grief: Organisations must accept that restructuring can lead to individuals failing to engage and developing pathologies.

HEALTH
10 ways to manage low back pain: Almost each of us; 80%, will suffer from back pain at some point in our lives. In terms of lost work time; that is nearly 10 million hours lost each year for adults aged 25-64 due to back pain.

ARTS
Three women in art: Their works show pain and ecstasy.

MUSIC
Kigali hosts protest music exhibition: Great Black Music exhibition documents the protest history of black music.

FRANKLY SPEAKING
Dr. Richard Kalungi: The pioneer house call doctor: Dr. Richard Kalungi has chosen rare path in the practice of medicine.

MOTORING
Don’t hoot at drivers: It is rude and potentially dangerous.