By the Independent Team In the new changes, Nothern Youth MP Ms Evelyn Anite has been named Minister of State for Youth and Children, Muruli Mukasa is now the Minister of Gender, Labour and Social Affairs, a position previously held by Okurut. In a detailed list of the new Cabinet …
Read More »I don’t have to love or hate the President
By Joan Akello Godber Tumushabe, the Associate Director of Great Lakes Institute for Strategic Studies, talked to Joan Akello about his impatience and ambitions Any three things we don’t know about you? Many people think I’m very serious and probably my life is scripted but I’m one of the approachable …
Read More »A president’s betrayal and Africa’s sin
By Andrew M. Mwenda Another look at Africa’s patron-client relations and the peasant moral universe Sometime in 2003, I visited the late former Zambian president Fredrick Chiluba at his palatial home in Lusaka’s rich suburb of Kablong and we sat down over a meal of rice, chapatti and wild game. …
Read More »I am not dying to be president
By Andrew M. Mwenda Former Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga spoke to The Independent’sAndrew Mwenda about life after losing the presidential election. You are no longer in Parliament, no longer a prime minister, are we seeing the last of Raila Odinga the politician? Raila Odinga the politician is still around …
Read More »Mugabe wants Africa to have one President
By Ronald Musoke Zimbabwe’s president, Robert Mugabe, on Jan.15 called upon his peers to focus on the appointment of one president to lead Africa when the forthcoming African Union (AU) summit meets soon. Mugabe said the summit should discuss the appointment of a ‘President of Africa’ to foster unity among …
Read More »`We don’t trust the President’
By Haggai Matsiko The bottom-line of the chaos over Clause 9 of the oil Bill On Friday Dec. 06, President Yoweri Museveni presided over an unusual caucus of MPs from his ruling party, NRM, in parliament. Altogether, there were 130 MPs. Museveni, looking somber, Museveni asked each of them to …
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