Friday, 03 February 2012 22:29
By Irene Wairimu
 How can you try to right a wrong, when you have not spoken to those who were wronged?
Elizabeth Kemunto stares blankly at the mud walls of her tiny house at a crowded Kenyan camp, where scores of families still wait for resettlement and justice four [ … ]
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Friday, 03 February 2012 20:19
By Independent Team & Agencies
 Kenya’s freedom scion in the dock
Uhuru Kenyatta, son of Kenya’s founding president, once carried his country’s aspirations in his name but has since come to symbolise many of its woes and now faces trial over election violence.
The International Criminal Court on Jan 23 ruled that Kenyatta should [ … ]
Friday, 03 February 2012 20:14
By Independent Team
 There are deserved winners and, well, not-so-deserving winners.
In the easterly district of Kapchorwa on January 26, both types were in attendance to celebrate NRA/M’s Victory Day when Yoweri Museveni took power a quarter century ago after leading a five-year guerilla war.
The deserved winner, und [ … ]
Thursday, 26 January 2012 09:40
By Julius Businge
 So what if Mutebile reduces bank rate but lending rates stay up?
The recent strike of traders against banks over high lending rates put Esther Nakitende in a tight spot. The clothes seller on William Street in downtown Kampala city followed instructions from the Kampala City Traders Association (KA [ … ]
Thursday, 26 January 2012 08:57
By Haggai Matsiko
 Besigye (1999), Bidandi (2003), who is next after Kyankwazi?
Until recently, it was unheard of for an NRM party member to boycott summons by President Yoweri Museveni to the National Leadership Institute at Kyankwanzi which is respected as a sort of shrine where party folk go for ideology, politics [ … ]
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Saturday, 21 January 2012 09:19
By Gerald Caplan
 Who shot down President Habyarimana’s plane, triggering the 1994 genocide? A report by two French judges has definitively resolved one of the controversial mysteries of the late 20th century. Gerry Caplan considers the implications in the light also of the extradition of alleged genocidaire Leon Mug [ … ]
Saturday, 21 January 2012 09:07
By Eriasa Mukiibi Sserunjogi
 UPC boss’s strictness on money issues, leaves him isolated as Pulkol, Rurangaranga, Odit launch a battle for control
Few Ugandans have CVs as illustrious as UPC President Olara Otunnu’s. He was granted the special O1 immigration status by the United States, which is reserved for “few individuals w [ … ]
Friday, 20 January 2012 14:54
By Stephen Kafeero
 Fighting malaria the wrong way kills 20 people every minute in Uganda
On December 19, 2011, a speeding lorry at Namanve, near Kampala city, hit a taxi and killed 6 of the 16 people on the taxi. Several others were injured. The story was headline news. There was national outrage. Everyone said “it w [ … ]
Monday, 16 January 2012 08:44
By Independent Team & Agencies
 Why Beijing’s defence ministers visited Kampala with US$2.3m cheque
Little by little China is forming military links in Africa and in the Indian Ocean in order, experts say, to protect Beijing’s economic interests in the region.
With trade exchanges between China and Africa totaling US$ 126.9 bill [ … ]
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