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  COVER STORY MPs catch Shs500bn ‘mistakenly’ given to defense budget: Museveni was planning to use money to buy spying equipment, say MPs NEWS ANALYSIS Why Kenya lost fight for AU top job: And why East Africa lost more over outdated voting habits at continental body THE LAST WORD Why …

COVER STORY  Museveni’s eye on intelligence: What ISO boss Barya’s fall, many reshuffles mean. THE LAST WORD In defense oil cash bonanza: Why it was morally right to reward public officials for winning Shs1.6 trillion worth of government revenues. SPORT The rise of Denis Masinde Onyango: The Independent reflects on …

COVER STORY Kizza Besigye’s biggest mistake: On Feb.2, Kizza Besigye, the former Presidential flag bearer for the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC), called the press to announce a new pressure group he is calling the People’s Government Network. THE LAST WORD ECOMOG’s Gambian gamble: The likely dangers of the Western …

COVER STORY Opposition against Museveni growing?: Attacks on security installations, poverty, transition politics mark 2016 ANALYSIS Cracks in Museveni relations with donors: Professors show why Museveni will win ANALYSIS What’s wrong in education?: Sixth Uwezo survey finds learning outcomes consistently low COMMENT On-job training for graduates: Facilitate transition from education …

In this week’s issue of The Independent: COMMENT Yahya Jams: Gambian President Yahya Jammeh’s decision to cling to power after initially conceding defeat in the Dec.01 election might be a result of his fear about how the victorious opposition might treat him. That has lessons for those opposing President Yoweri …

Rwenzururu Omusinga Mumbere – Villain or victim? COVER STORY Inside Kasese massacre: What the government feared from Mumbere. COMMENT Killings in Kasese: Why Museveni in 2016 looks exactly like Obote in 1966 and how Kabaka Mutebi’s handling of the 2009 Buganda crisis yielded better results than the Rwenzururu King Mumbere’s …

The Independent to deliver through The ONEm Global Platform Local Ugandan News to The World The Independent has reached an agreement with ONEm to offer news on the ONEm platform for readers in Uganda and the rest of the World. ONEm will provide a platform for non-internet users on their phones …

COVER STORY What next as Uganda President Yoweri Museveni loses `cadre judges’?: Chief Justice Bart Katureebe will be 70-years old in 2020 and, under current law, he must retire then. That is four years away but already anxiety is mounting about who will replace him. NEWS ANALYSIS Danger from Museveni’s …

COVER STORY: Makerere Breaking up the future? : The Makerere University campus in Kampala has been a quiet and abandoned place since President Yoweri Museveni on Nov.01 ordered it closed after a strike by lecturers demanding pay was joined by a strike by students demanding lectures. THE LAST WORD Museveni’s …

THE LAST WORD: Uganda’s stalled transformation: Andrew Mwenda on Why Museveni has not transformed agricultural Uganda into an industrial economy and what can be done. COVER STORY: Americans to build refinery? Technocrats at the Energy Ministry and the Ministry of Finance who are working on the country’s pet project, the …