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By Henry Zakumumpa New developments in Kenya dispel the assumption that Uganda has a comparative advantage in the education sector I recently returned from a regional Universities Conference at Kenyatta University in Nairobi supported by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). Besides noticing the magnificent Chinese-built multilane Thika highway in …

By Henry Zakumumpa The delay in reforming a critical Bill in parliament may render AIDS drugs in Uganda illegal We no longer fear AIDS. Eddagala gyelili e Mulago (drugs are available at Mulago Hospital),” says Ssenkindu Moses, 32,  who tells me he has had three sexual partners in the last …

By Henry Zakumumpa Epidemic already killing more people than AIDS, TB, and malaria combined The Tobacco diseases epidemic is already with us in Africa’’ says Prof Peter Odhiambo, Chairman of Kenya Tobacco Control Board. ‘’Soon you will hear people announcing that the epidemic is coming to Africa. It is already …

By Henry Zakumumpa Researchers are yet to fully understand the causes of discordance among couples although several researches are ongoing. Habib Mukasa plies the Mombasa-Kampala route transporting second hand Japanese cars for a major car dealer with a bonded warehouse in Nakawa in Kampala. Mukasa spends the better part of …

By Henry Zakumumpa If you were born today, which country would provide you the very best opportunity to live a healthy, safe, reasonably prosperous, and upwardly mobile life? This was the intriguing question posed in an unprecedented study by Newsweek, a leading American international magazine. The study was conducted between …

By Henry Zakumumpa I was travelling through Frankfurt airport when, bored with the long wait for my next flight, I decided to peruse the headlines in one of the ubiquitous bookstores at the airport. I chanced on an August 2010 issue of Foreign Policy, the influential American magazine. I have …

By Henry Zakumumpa Unfaithful couples contributing to ominous rise in national infection rates New studies in Uganda show that married or co-habiting couples today stand a higher risk of contracting HIV than single or young people. This marks an astonishing shift in the pandemics infection patterns in the country. Uganda’s …

By Henry Zakumumpa A growing body of evidence suggests that oil, far from being a blessing to African countries is a curse. Without exception, every developing country where oil has been discovered has seen its standard of living decline and its people suffer, while its less endowed neighbours have gone …