Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The African Peer Review Mechanism-APRM Chief Executive, Prof. Eddy Maloka has said that Africa’s problem is not long-serving leaders but the leadership crisis. Prof. Maloka, who was the keynote speaker as Makerere celebrated the legacy of Mwalimu Julius Nyerere on Thursday, said that a leader …
Read More »Museveni to fast track Constitutional Review Commission
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has committed to fast tracking the formation of a commission that will review the 1995 constitution. This development comes a year after the former minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs Maj Gen. Kahinda Otafiire recommended a 14-panel commission led by the …
Read More »Africa’s peer review should be people centered – Oulanyah
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Speaker of Parliament Jacob Oulanyah, has urged the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) to ensure its findings and recommendations work in favour of the development of the ordinary Ugandan. The main thematic areas of APRM in Uganda include democracy and political governance, economic governance …
Read More »African peer review, Kadaga meeting flops
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A meeting between a team from the African Peer Review Mechanism-APRM and the Speaker, Rebecca Kadaga on Thursday flopped. The APRM team was supposed to present Uganda’s second review report to Kadaga at Parliament. However, the meeting was called off because Kadaga was having other …
Read More »African Peer Review Mechanism to adopt Museveni’s bottlenecks to Africa’s development
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The African Peer Review Mechanism-APRM is considering adopting President Yoweri Museveni’s bottlenecks facing Africa as new areas of assessment while evaluating member states. In 2015, Museveni presented 11 bottlenecks which according to him are hindering effective socio-economic transformation of the African continent. Museveni singled …
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