Saturday, 18 February 2012 07:42
By Haggai Matsiko
 Corporation is sinking as former star manager faces probe
The news out of Plot 39 Jinja Road, the National Water and Sewerage Corporation (NWSC) head office in Kampala, is not good.
In several interviews with The Independent, top officials of the c [ … ]
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Friday, 10 February 2012 12:12
By Haggai Matsiko
 Tullow, CNOOC and Total get $2.9 bn oil deal amidst allegation of corruption
What could prompt Tullow, CNOOC and, Total to disregard a raft of cases in international courts, a court injunction at home and a resolution of parliament and sign a deal with Uganda? Money. Possibly greed and corruption.
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Friday, 03 February 2012 19:33
By Eriasa Mukiibi Sserunjogi
 Being allowed to hold rallies recently after a long unofficial ban meant the jury was always out on opposition leader Kizza Besigye. Would he pull crowds? Would his message resonate with the public? Or would he self-destruct?
At the rallies, it became immediately clear that supporters are more impa [ … ]
Thursday, 26 January 2012 09:32
By Mubatsi Asinja Habati
 As the National Resistance Army/Movement (NRM) celebrates 26 years in power, residents of Katebwa, a village that falls in Bunyangabu county, Kabarole district, which was at the heart of the bush war are yet to enjoy the benefits of their support for the fighters about 30 years ago.
Katebwa lies in [ … ]
Friday, 20 January 2012 14:59
By Agather Atuhaire
 Why the economy is the main loser
The government announcement of a new electricity tariff regime on Jan.12 could still backfire but, on paper, it looks like a perfect stroke. Part of the problem is that the tariff regime does not address the real problems in Uganda’s electricity sector.
The sector [ … ]
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Monday, 16 January 2012 08:47
By Andrew M. Mwenda
 But who benefits most from subsidies to UMEME?
A cabinet sitting on Wednesday Jan. 11 discussed increasing electricity tariffs by 40 percent. Cabinet should remove these subsidies altogether because they are not economically sustainable and benefit the rich at the expense of poor citizens. Over the [ … ]
Friday, 06 January 2012 15:03
By Agather Atuhaire
 Museveni’s New Year message shows lack of focus and solutions to urgent problems, experts say
On November 30, 2011, the Euro Rate Forecast, a website designed to advise clients about currency valuing noted that the Euro had shot up by 2.25 cents to the dollar and called it an “exchange rate volatil [ … ]
Tuesday, 03 January 2012 14:20
By Haggai Matsiko
UK and Germany firms use government officials to grab 20,000 peasants’ land
As people celebrate Christmas, it is a luxury that others can even hardly afford to think about and have spent their last 10 Christmas like that—sad, poor and displaced.
One of them is Mzee Matayo Kiyitawaguru, 80, one o [ … ]
Tuesday, 20 December 2011 11:00
By Haggai Matsiko
 Why Museveni’s agenda with America is running out of time
Faradje, a small town of 250,000 people on the edge of the Garamba Forest in north east DR Congo is this December marking the third anniversary since Joseph Kony ransacked it on December 25, 2008 and slaughtered over 900 people.
The fugitiv [ … ]
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