Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni has said Ugandans should get visas on entry in South Africa. Museveni was reacting to reports that several Ugandan tour operators recently had difficulty getting visas while others were denied entry to attend the Indaba Tourism Fair in Durban last week. …
Read More »MUSEVENI: No payment for squatters on Orthodox Church land
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President, Yoweri Museveni has summoned all squatters on the land belonging to the Orthodox Church at Lubya Hill in Namungona in Rubaga Division in Kampala to discuss how to resolve the dispute amicably. He invited the squatters in his speech at a function to …
Read More »Behind teargas for Besigye, house arrest for Bobi Wine
Should opposition trust NRM promise to allow opposition meetings? Kampala, Uganda | IAN KATUSIIME | A meeting between leaders of government and political parties on April 25 to discuss how the Uganda Police is implementing the Public Order Management Act (POMA) went badly for the Leader of Opposition in Parliament …
Read More »The road to serfdom
How Ugandans have cultivated a mindset that is making them servants of foreigners in their own country THE LAST WORD | ANDREW M. MWENDA | My friend Henry Mayanja left Uganda as a teenager and lived in the UK for 20 years. He worked for the UK government earning a …
Read More »Lessons to Bobi Wine from Besigye
It’s defiance or death Kampala, Uganda | HAGGAI MATSIKO | An eventful five days from Easter Monday April 22 to Friday April appears to have made something snap in Kyadondo East MP, Kyagulanyi Sentamu aka Bobi Wine’s head. It appears that the police’s restriction of his political and musical activities …
Read More »Museveni urges support for investors, warns judges
Agago, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni has urged Ugandans to handle investors with care as they are key to the country’s economic advancement. He also lashed out at judges who he said connive with wananchi to frustrate government projects. “No economy ever developed because of its politicians, …
Read More »Kadaga courts Buganda parliamentary caucus on sugar bill
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga has urged the Buganda Parliamentary Caucus to support the people of Busoga in opposing clauses in the Sugar Bill that are not in the interest of sugarcane out growers. Kadaga is opposed to the proposed zoning of cane growers, …
Read More »Going digital could boost Sub-Saharan economies—World Bank
But only a small proportion of the region’s population is hooked to the internet Kampala, Uganda | RONALD MUSOKE | Sub-Saharan African economies are sluggishly growing owing to global uncertainty, poor management of debt, inflation as well as political and regulatory uncertainty, according to the latest World Bank’s bi-annual analysis …
Read More »Why NRM fears Independent MPs
Numbers show if not checked, 30% MPs to be Independent Kampala, Uganda | HAGGAI MATSIKO | Finally, President Yoweri Museveni’s ruling NRM party and the four opposition parties represented in parliament have something they agree on; aspiring Independent MPs must be failed at the next election in 2021. They accuse …
Read More »Is Uganda’s debt sustainable?
THE LAST WORD: How Prof Hyuha Mukwanason’s response to my article fails to move beyond abstract theoretical arguments THE LAST WORD | ANDREW M MWENDA | Prof Hyuha Mukwanason wrote in Daily Monitor of April 13 a 4,214 words-long article responding to my article published in The New Vision of …
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