Sunday, 09 September 2012 14:37
By Andrew M. Mwenda
 Why UPDF’s superior ideology has succeeded where America’s superior force failed
Over the last four years, I have had numerous debates with my friend Mohamed Ahmed Yahya aka Mo, a Briton of Somali descent about UPDF involvement in his motherland. My [ … ]
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Friday, 07 September 2012 13:01
By Andrew M. Mwenda
 This morning, September 7th, 2012, newspapers reported that the PPDA has cancelled the tender to construct a 700MW electricity dam at Karuma. For a country that has been experiencing electricity shortages for the last 25 years, this is a major setback. However, the story of cancelling the Karuma ten [ … ]
Saturday, 01 September 2012 09:14
By Andrew M. Mwenda
By responding to allegations about its involvement in DRC, Rwanda has allowed its detractors to define the debate
Over the last two months, there has been a barrage of attacks against Rwanda accusing it of involvement in the Democratic Republic of Congo by supporting rebels hostile to the regime in [ … ]
Saturday, 25 August 2012 09:34
By Andrew M. Mwenda
Why the Western powers may keep financing Museveni even when some think he has passed his sale-by date
My recent visit to Mogadishu and seeing what our troops have done there made me proud. Yet perhaps the greatest lesson from Somalia was not necessarily the good that our army is capable of doing i [ … ]
Saturday, 18 August 2012 18:52
By Andrew M. Mwenda
The world tends to hold him to very high, sometimes unrealistic standards
Over the last one month, a rebellion has been ragging in eastern DRC against the government of President Joseph Kabila in Kinshasa. As I write this article, over 40 armed groups, some of them former members of the Congolese [ … ]
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Sunday, 12 August 2012 09:00
By Andrew M. Mwenda
To understand how theft of public resources flourishes, one has to observe how it is fought
Last week, court dismissed as “no case to answer” charges of abuse of office and causing financial loss against Maj. Gen. Jim Muhwezi in the Gavi trial. Muhwezi had been taken to court on flimsy evidence tha [ … ]
Saturday, 04 August 2012 17:26
By Andrew M. Mwenda
Doesn’t a country that lost a million people deserve to protect its people against the threat of another genocide?
In a space of one week in July, the Netherlands, Germany, UK and USA announced they would cut their aid to Rwanda over its alleged involvement in the ongoing rebellion in eastern Demo [ … ]
Saturday, 28 July 2012 14:10
By Andrew M. Mwenda
Failure to define the necessary market regulation deprived lecture of the necessary nuance
The lecture by economics Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz about the failures resulting from deregulation of financial markets in the United States and the need for a strict regulatory regime was engaging and fr [ … ]
Sunday, 22 July 2012 08:41
By Andrew M. Mwenda
How a tiny minority of trade unionists have used politics to wrest control from the majority of the fund’s subscribers.
In his State of the Nation address, President Yoweri Museveni said government was going to borrow money from the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) to finance infrastructure dev [ … ]
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