NEWS ANALYSIS

By Haggai Matsiko Details of President’s meetings exposed Mbabazi, Otafiire, Nyombi, Byabagambi, Byandala, Solicitor General, UPDF officials sucked in Confusion threatens to hurt oil industry. On July 25 President Yoweri Museveni held a crisis meeting at his country home in Rwakitura with government officials over the roughly US$ 8 billion …

By Independent Team  Why the Attorney General will not appeal By 11:20am, as the court room was overflowing with both pro and anti-gay activists, it was becoming ominously clear that the government side did not expect a good outcome. Heated arguments between those for and against the Anti-homosexual law flowed …

By Julius Businge & Nicole Namubiru This year’s university hopefuls are torn between hope and despair Fortunate Natukunda should be celebrating her luck. She has just passed her pre-university entry exams; a rare feat in her rural village in Isingiro district in western Uganda. Her achievement is even more momentous …

By Flavia Nassaka Unexpected reasons why Judith Babirye, Nabakooba, and Prof. Nuwagaba want the unwanted job of MP With her enchanting voice, magnetic smile, and an expanding charity foundation, Uganda’s top gospel music singer, Judith Babirye, is living her dream of diva success. That is why some people find her …

By agencies Kiplimo’s fall come before bronze Abraham Kiplimo was rewarded with a bronze for his bravery at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games. Kiplimo won the bronze in the marathon on June 27 but he had to overcome an earlier fall. He and teammates Philip Kiplimo, and Solomon Mutai had …

By Richard INGHAM A campaign to promote male circumcision to prevent AIDS infection also indirectly benefits women by reducing their risk of contracting the HIV virus, according to a study presented on July 25 at the world AIDS forum. In a South African community where large numbers of men had …

By Kevin Connolly It took seven days for the war that no-one seemed to want to become the war that no-one seems to know how to stop. As the first week of July ended there was a sense that the political temperature was rising sharply here but no sign of …

By Patrick Kagenda What Museveni should fear Recent events in the districts of Kasese, Bundibugyo, and Ntororo show that President Yoweri Museveni’s strategy to politically and strategically capture the volatile region could be failing, experts say. For some time, Museveni has been attempting to have the Bakonjo and their leader, …

By Ronald Musoke Who cares about maimed victims, killed children? On the wet and cold Saturday morning his nephew, Abdallah Mawejje died, Ddumba Ssentongo was mainly speechless and distraught looking, with his eyes red from crying. On that day of July 12, Ddumba’s nephew became the third child to die …

By Haggai Matsiko Can the ministry of Finance stop the thieves? Butaleja district in eastern Uganda always has some of the worst performing schools in national primary and secondary level exams. In a recent report, the Butaleja District Education Officer, Philips Kalyebi, blamed the poor results on the pupils. He …