By Nabusayi L. Wamboka State House, which caters for the welfare and security of the President and his VP, is perennially underfunded The Monitor story published under the headline “State House budget hits record Shs 200 billion” (Daily Monitor April 11, 2013) is not only alarming and ill intentioned, it …

By Martin Neil Baily and Susan Lund The trend is leading to fragmented global financial systems, with countries relying on domestic capital For three decades, financial globalisation had seemed inevitable. New information technologies made it possible to conduct transactions halfway around the world in the blink of an eye. Savers …

By Denis Musinguzi The irony of enforcing discipline within an undisciplined system The expulsion from the National Resistance Movement (NRM) party and, according to NRM Secretary General from parliament, of the four rebel-dubbed Members of Parliament, MPs Wilfred Niwagaba, Muhammad Nsereko, Barnabas Tinkasimire Ateenyi and Theodore Ssekikubo for indiscipline has, …

By Ronald Musoke Park Jong-Dae, South Korea’s Charge d’Affaires shares his views on his country’s rapid economic development with The Independent’s Ronald Musoke. How did South Korea (officially the Republic of Korea) emerge from the depths of despair of the 1940s to its current industrialised status? Korea’s feat in its …

By Sarah Namulondo What has it got to do with how high up the thigh a mini-skirt is? When Macedonian pedophile Emin Baro was arrested for luring underage Ugandan girls to perform sex acts on him on camera last year, there was no clear law under which to charge him …

By Ronald Musoke 1900 -2013 Attempts to reform Uganda’s marriage laws have been contentious and on and off for more than half a century. On April 4, when the Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga halted debate and temporarily shelved the current Marriage and Divorce Bill for at least three months …

By Kavuma-Kaggwa Political coalitions about power and wealth are best negotiated before, not after, the signing The people of Kenya have just completed their big and historical general elections. The elections were big and historical because they ushered in a new and young generation of leaders from the old guard. …

By Julius Odeke The Uganda Joint Christian Council (UJCC) is an ecumenical organisation founded in 1963 as a platform for leaders of the Roman Catholic Church, the Anglican church of Uganda, and the Uganda Orthodox Church who, together, constitute 78% of Uganda’s population. UJCC will, on May 31, this year …

By Haggai Matsiko What difference will arrival of big American companies make? From Energy, oil and gas engineering, to advisory and legal services, American companies are increasingly scrambling and bagging Ugandan business contracts. In the last two years, over 10 top American companies have sealed big business deals and U.S. …

By Haggai Matsiko Total E&P’s Shs 3.9 bn industry survey revives debate on local content in the oil sector With local businesses crying foul over big oil contracts and jobs going to international companies and expatriates, oil companies are drawing strategies to improve their local content input. French oil giant …