NEWS ANALYSIS

By Kyle Beaulieu Was the National Development Plan (NDP) deliberately launched on 19 Apr. 2010 by the National Resistance Movement (NRM) government in anticipation of the 2011 elections? The government has not had a clear strategic plan since 2008, when the Poverty Eradication Action Plan (PEAP) expired. With less than …

By Isaac Mufumba Memories of Vision 2025 and PEAP create doubt Uganda has just launched a new Shs 54 trillion National Development Plan (NDP), the first in more than 40 years. The NDPs vision is to have “a transformed Ugandan Society from a peasant to a modern and prosperous country …

By Isaac Mufumba   Influential American group says President Yoweri Museveni is an obstacle to the continued growth and expansion of democracy and only works within the limits of formal institutions when his political interests are not at stake, the 2010 Freedom House Report, ‘Countries at the Crossroads’, says. Countries …

By Isaac Mufumba When I asked the Vice Chairman of Parliaments Budget Committee, Medi Mulumba (NRM Luuka County) about the Parliamentary committee on Government Assurances last week, he had a very low opinion. That is a dead committee. It has nothing to show for its existence, he said. This Committee …

By Bob Roberts Katende   The King’s Bishop Sitting among the congregation and listening to the Easter summon by Archbishop Cyprian Lwanga, the head of the Roman Catholic Church in Uganda, was quite an event this April. During his sermons, Lwanga’s voice is so soft that he sounds almost meek. …

By Bob Kasango Fundamentalist attacks on priestly celibacy come in a number of different forms – not all compatible with one another. There is almost no other subject about which so many different confusions exist. The first and most basic confusion is thinking of priestly celibacy as a dogma or …

By Dicta Asiimwe Is it time for  priests to marry? In the last two weeks, the Roman Catholic Church has been in the news over its pedophilia scandals. Most of the scandals have been from Europe, especially in Ireland and Germany, the home country of Pope Benedict XVI, who is …

By P. Matsiko wa Mucoori & Mubatsi Asinja Habati Aircraft flying life had expired UPDF told CAA to clear flight On March 9 last year, an Ilyushin IL-76 Russian made aircraft, operated by the Johannesburg-based Aerolift Company Ltd, crashed in Lake Victoria killing 11 people on board. The Ministry of …

By Dicta Asiimwe Former Vice President and now President Museveni’s advisor on microfinance Dr Specioza Wandira Kazibwe is again in the spotlight over abuse of public funds under the government’s Bonna Bagaggawale programme. The money meant for people with disabilities (PWDs) in Busoga under the Bonna Bagaggawale (Prosperity-for-All) has sparked …

By Isaac Mufumba Are they a means to a political rather than social-economic end? For most of the last part of 2009, government was dolling out food to sections of the population in West Nile, eastern and northern Uganda, following a famine that ravaged those areas leaving at least 50 …