By Ronald Musoke Jinja Road jam defies city planners’ latest attempt to tackle it Once again, the 1.4km stretch of road into Kampala City from the eastern side; starting at the Immigration Offices to the Lugogo Stadium area, is enveloped in billows of dust. The road is being remodeled for …

By The Independent Team The existing curriculum in Uganda is highly theoretical, exam oriented, limited in scope and relevance Acursory look at the existing public education curriculum in Uganda at all levels provides glaring inadequacies and loopholes that need to be addressed if we are to rely on it to …

By The Independent Team She was in Uganda recently and spoke to The Independent’s Joan Akello and other journalists about why Uganda and other countries need to adopt modern technology to improve agricultural production and food security. Agriculture can be transformed in Africapling with currently? I am Ugandan and at …

By Peter Martell A UN base beside the capital’s airport has around 17,000 people gathered for protection South Sudan’s capital has three towns: the first is the dusty streets of Juba, largely calm but where the crackle of gun fire still rings out at night after three weeks of violence. …

In July 2012, President Yoweri Museveni asked The Independent’s Managing Director, Andrew Mwenda, to accompany him to visit the window of former President Milton Obote, Mrs. Miria Obote, at her home along Impala Avenue in Kololo. Mwenda is a close friend of the Obote family and an admirer of the …

By Joseph Were 2014 could be the best year for him, worst for the opposition Politically speaking, 2014 has started on a very quiet note; and that is very bad for opponents of President Yoweri Museveni in a year that must set the pace for the outcome of the next …

By Esther Dyson How do you cure the terrible inefficiency of NGOs that are typically run by people without management skills? Since starting my own nonprofit organisation, I look at other nonprofits with new eyes. There are far more of them than I ever realised. As an angel investor, I …

By Magelah Peter Gwayaka Media freedoms could be curtailed and individual’s privacy abused by police Recently Uganda Parliament passed two bills; the Anti-Homosexuality and the Anti-Pornography Bills, which purport to aim at protecting Uganda’s societal morals. However, what seems not to be in the debate is the fact that the …

By Simon Peter Kaye Mini-skirt brawls, Gen. Sejusa leaks, gay bashing, teargas, and World Cup in 2014 An in-depth analysis of anticipated trends and phenomena bound to shape Uganda’s socio-economic and political landscape this year reveals some interesting projections. Let me play the oracle and tell you what to expect …

By Henry Zakumumpa How poor African countries unwittingly develop rich western countries About three months ago, the local press was awash with reports of a raging debate in parliament about Uganda’s proposed borrowing from China to build the Karuma hydro power dam. The legislators maintained that this would exhaust Uganda’s …