The Independent Uganda: You get the Truth we Pay the Price
COVER STORY:
Makerere University in the age of emotion and blackmail: Apparently, the university’s top management organ; the University Council, adopted paying the incentives without a proper budget. If it had budgeted, it would have realized that the incentives scheme was neither affordable nor sustainable as it is supposed to be paid out of Makerere University’s internally generated revenue and cost Shs3.7 billion per month or Shs43 billion a year.
ANALYSIS
Workers dying at Chinese sites rise: The human cost of accidents, poor health and safety conditions under Chinese contractors in Uganda has come under scrutiny and what is emerging is raising serious concerns. Chinese contractors don’t care at all, says Labour minister who vows to whip them into line
INTELLIGENCE
On Nov. 25 gunfire rocked Kasese town in yet another round of clashes between the Rwenzururu kingdom and the government. This time, it was government security forces storming Rwenzururu king Wesley Mumbere’s palace. When normalcy returned, the police announced that up to 58 people had been killed. But the number of dead has been growing. The police has handed over 70 bodies to relatives to burry and buried another 52 in a public cemetery. The Independent brings you the exclusive confidential document that might have sparked the attack on Mumbere
INTERVIEW
Why the World Bank upheld the decision to suspend the $265m Uganda Transport Sector Development Project (TSDP)
BUSINESS
Business opportunities through government tenders: African companies to bid for contracts around the world
BUSINESS
Workplace Saving schemes: The latest threat to commercial banking?
RWANDA
HIV/AIDS stigma lives on in Rwanda
ANALYSIS
Kiggundu moves to fix Karuma dam cracks: Museveni’s new team at Energy ministry grills Chinese contractors
COMMENT
Science in a post-factual world: There is a growing disdain for factual knowledge as fake news proliferates without journalistic filters
