By Ariel Rubin In the office-cum-waiting room of the African Prison Project (APP) house in Luzira, a big green poster board is plastered with photographs of groundbreaking ceremonies and newspaper clippings extolling the many achievements of the NGO and its 24-year-old founder and Director General, Alexander McLean. Also, emblazoned is …
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By Ariel Rubin A recent car accident has not quieted opposition leader Morris Latigo, who sat down recently with The Independent’s Ariel Rubin for a discussion about problems inherent in the ‘Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2009’ and his own anxieties and hopes for 2011. What were your thoughts when you first heard …
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By Ariel Rubin A scathing new report issued by the London-based environment and governance watchdog Platform has put government and oil companies under fire. Revealing for the first time one of the production sharing agreements (PSAs) between Heritage and the government, Platform’s analysis reveals that, contrary to oil company and …
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By Ariel Rubin While section 140 of the colonial-era Penal Code Act already criminalises “carnal knowledge against the order of nature”, this new legislation will attempt to give teeth to that dictum Being gay in Uganda has never been easy, but a new draft bill tabled in Parliament on October …
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By Ariel rubin and John Njoroge In the last three weeks, the suspended Executive Director of National Forestry Authority (NFA) Damian Akankwasa has been in the spotlight over Shs 900m that he says was stolen from his house in Naguru by his estranged wife Juliet Akankwasa. He told The Independent’s …
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