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Why UPDF, the AU and Western powers should let Al Shabab take over power in Somalia THE LAST WORD | Andrew M. Mwenda | Last week, Al Shabab militants made a devastating attack on a UPDF base in Somalia. They claimed to have killed 138 of our soldiers and taken many more hostage. …

  COMMENT | Samson Tinka | In the last few weeks, over ten gun violence cases have been recorded in Uganda. This is not to say, there hasn’t been such cases before, what’s weird this time round is how these cases have been committed. The first one was a bodyguard killing …

COMMENT | CLEVER NICHOLAS | While debt collection intends to ensure that individuals and businesses fulfill their financial obligations, it is increasingly becoming evident that the debt collection industry in Uganda has been hijacked by court bailiffs who engage in debt collection without court order, which is illegal and improper. Court …

COMMENT | KEITH KALYEGIRA | Collective investment schemes (CIS) have in recent days been in the news for the right reasons. Savings to the tune of Ugx 1.8 trillion have been mobilized from Ugandan savers for investment purposes over the past five years, representing an annual growth rate of 79%. …

COMMENT | Alfred Geresom Musamali |  I once ate on credit an over five million shillings’ (US$2,000 at the time) working lunch at the Silver Springs Hotel in Bugolobi, a Kampala, Uganda suburb. I then spent three months of my subsequent salaries, repaying for the meal! I had had a stint …

How good institutions become dysfunctional in heterogenous countries with deep interethnic divisions THE LAST WORD | Andrew M. Mwenda | So, we begin from where we stopped last week with lessons from my former lecturer at the University of London, Mushtaq Khan. Studying South Korea and Pakistan, he found that what makes …

COMMENT | CLEVER NICHOLAS | Debt has become an unavoidable part of modern life for many individuals, enterprises and households. Whether it’s student loans, credit card debt, or mortgages, managing debt has become a pressing concern. When managed well, it is a source of success, when mismanaged, the repercussions are …

  COMMENT | PETER MUHUMUZA | Ugandan businesses are increasingly investing in innovations and systems that keep them ahead of the curve to thrive in the current business environment. From embracing the computers and the internet, to e-commerce, cloud computing and now ChatGPT. While access to digital ways of communication …

How good institutions become dysfunctional in heterogenous countries with deep interethnic divisions THE LAST WORD | Andrew M. Mwenda | Last week, a friend sent me a long dissertation about Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty, a book by James Robinson and Daron Acemoglu. Why Nations Fail is …

Lessons for the rest of Uganda’s economy from the local content rules enforced in our oil sector THE LAST WORD | Andrew M. Mwenda | For over thirty years now, Uganda government generally and President Yoweri Museveni specifically, have promoted an open-door policy on Foreign Direct Investment. Foreign firms are given freedom to …