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By Haggai Matsiko Tim Sebastian, the former host of BBC’s Hard Talk show, is the chairman of the Doha Debates, a forum for free speech in Qatar. Haggai Matsiko spoke to him. Many people know you as a man of all questions, always preferring to grill politicians and some people …

By Haggai Matsiko Goretti Masadde is the new president of the Public Relations Association of Uganda (PRAU). Haggai Matsiko spoke to her What is company Public Relations, PR? PR is basically the successful development of relationships between the key stakeholders of the business, maintenance of these relationships and effective management. …

BY HAGGAI MATSIKO Long-serving Ministry of Energy Permanent Secretary, Fred Kalisa, is considered by many people to be very smart. However, if he was employed in the private sector, he would have been fired for the various failures in his ministry. He was in charge when, despite protests and advice …

By Haggai Matsiko Experts say government must plan for December and 2011 elections Usually, when pump prices of petroleum products in Uganda shoot up, the government and oil sector operators blame it on some mishap in neighbouring Kenya. This time there was neither malfunction at the Kenya Petroleum Refineries Ltd …

By Haggai Matsiko Warders increasingly suffer violence as prisoner human rights observance increases in towns On June 14, Denis Bakisu , an inmate at Mbale Prison, was taken to Mbale Regional Referral Hospital for a tooth extraction. Unknown to prisons officials, Basiku was faking his pain as part of an …

By Haggai Matsiko In the last weeks, tension has been growing in the country with warring political contestants, especially within the NRM, unleashing mayhem against each other. Every week there seems to be another conflict. As a result, civil society organizations have created various projects to prevent potential violence that …

By Haggai Matsiko Gaping illiteracy, poverty and ethnic tensions stand in the way of participatory governance Along the dusty roads of Kaluguuza, a small town in Kibaale district, western Uganda, Moses Kahwa, a local shopkeeper, passionately debates the upcoming elections with other local self-proclaimed political analysts. Baguma cannot win Matia, …