Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | These are the top stories in this week’s THE INDEPENDENT. COVER STORY NSSF stuck over ‘Orders from above’: MD Byarugaba joins list of government officials ‘stuck’ over Museveni directives THE LAST WORD The bastardisation of civil society: Why the struggle against NGOs in poor countries …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | These are the top stories in this week’s THE INDEPENDENT. THE LAST WORD From Kerala with love: A journey to a South Indian state and the contradictions in its egalitarian ideals COVER STORY Museveni’s relation with Biden’s America: The key recent events that matter COMMENTS Sexual …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | These are the top stories in this week’s THE INDEPENDENT. COVER STORY Museveni’s electric buses and cars: The dreams versus reality THE LAST WORD In admiration of Nobert Mao: Why the cooperation agreement between NRM and DP should form the example in the evolution of …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | These are the top stories in this week’s THE INDEPENDENT. COVER STORY Muhoozi project is on, say donors: They insist it must be discussed seriously THE LAST WORD Apartheid at Uganda’s immigration: Inside the discrimination, humiliation and mistreatment of Ugandans of Kinyarwanda culture ANALYSIS ICC …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | These are the top stories in this week’s THE INDEPENDENT. COVER STORY Unending teacher strikes: How Museveni’s strategy is failing THE LAST WORD On the teachers’ strike: How government may have opened a pandora’s box by creating huge salary disparities among its employees COMMENT Bobi …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | These are the top stories in this week’s THE INDEPENDENT. COVER STORY Bad news: America is back in Somalia THE LAST WORD Museveni’s Umeme mistake: Why the refusal to renew their concession is not a big loss to Ugandan workers and investors and a boom …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda has not yet reached the level of setting the minimum wage, Ramathan Ggoobi, the Secretary to the Treasury and Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development has stated. According to Ggoobi, it is bad economics to institute a …
Read More »IN THE INDEPENDENT: What next as Vinci coffee deal cools?
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | These are the top stories in this week’s THE INDEPENDENT. COVER STORY What next as Vinci coffee deal cools?: Museveni defends, Buganda reacts THE LAST WORD On America’s sense of self: How self-righteousness is far more dangerous than self-interest and leads to human disaster ANALYSIS …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | These are the top stories in this week’s THE INDEPENDENT. COVER Birthday diplomacy of Gen. Muhoozi: Why crowd wanted him anointed but Museveni wasn’t baited THE LAST WORD The real problem with Vinci: The power, influence, exorbitant dubious deals and the inevitably coming fall of …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | These are the top stories in this week’s THE INDEPENDENT. COVER Hell in Karamoja: Does sub-region require military response only? THE LAST WORD Aiding the enemy: How US involvement in the Russia-Ukraine conflict is helping the rise of China to surpass America as the world’s …
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