By Roberts Katende In light of the endemic famine in Uganda and the need for sustainable solutions to the problem, the Deputy Director of World Food Programme in charge of Hunger, Sisulu Sheila visited Uganda last week. The Independent’s Roberts Katende talked to her about the new strategies. Below are …
Read More »Kyeyune humbled over bad road
By John Njoroge LC V boss’ ordeal shows how unfulfilled promises endanger public officials At first, he is hit with a bottle top but within seconds, stones, sticks, dirty water and dust are hitting him from all directions. A crowd numbering in the hundreds has steadily gathered around him and …
Read More »Dar-Kigali-Bujumbura railway set for take-off
By Kabona Esiara As Rwanda, Burundi demand end of TRC concession to Indian Rail Company With the construction of a trans-boundary railway line from Tanzania through Rwanda to Burundi planned to begin at the end of this year, infrastructure ministers in the three countries are pushing Tanzania to terminate the …
Read More »AIDS patients face a future without drugs
By Bob Roberts Katende Patience we use one name to preserve her anonymity – faces a gloomy future. For the past one year, she has been suffering from incessant malaria, headache, and an irritating skin rash. She is HIV positive and has been advised to start taking anti-retroviral drugs. Unfortunately, …
Read More »Buganda, Uganda at crossroads
By Prof Mahmood Mamdani This is an edited version of Prof. Mahmood Mamdani’s presentation at the Abu Mayanja Annual Lecture on August 7, 2009 at Kampala International Conference Centre. I am greatly honored to have been asked to give this lecture. I met the late Abu Mayanja in 1961. I …
Read More »Lease of Entebbe Airport: Good or bad deal?
By Mubatsi Asinja Habati In 2000, a proposal to privatise some services at Entebbe International Airport was hatched. This came after a study, Big Push Strategy, by the UN Conference on Trade and Development recommended that Entebbe be transformed into a modern cargo handling centre in Africa. The study was …
Read More »Government should fund Entebbe Airport upgrade
By Okodan Akwap Entebbe International Airport certainly needs to be upgraded to a level that can help us deal with some of the debilitating effects of our being a landlocked nation. But when you listen to the ongoing arguments over this matter you realise with dismay that, once again, many …
Read More »Standards body, tax collectors to jointly fight poor quality imports
By Patrick Kagenda UNBS, URA to integrate systems by end of year Uganda has 52 gazetted entry points for imports but only 19 are monitored for quality of goods by the Uganda National Bureau of Standards (UNBS). Smugglers know this. Result: Counterfeits and fake goods, especially electrical appliances, cables, cosmetics, …
Read More »Cabinet debating law on counterfeits“ UNBS boss
By Patrick Kagenda The Independents Patrick Kagenda talked to Terry Kahuma, the Executive Director at Uganda National Bureau of Standards (UNBS) about the substandard and counterfeit goods on the Ugandan market. What are you doing about the substandard and counterfeit goods flooding the Uganda market? The first thing we try …
Read More »Broadband for Uganda: The inside story
By Joe Powell July 23, 2009, 159 years after the world’s first submarine cable was laid, will go down in history as the day East Africa became fully connected to the world’s digital super-highways. Seacom’s cable, 17,000km long and costing $650 million, is now officially ‘live’ with a capacity of …
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