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COMMENT | Samson Tinka |  As the year closes in, the public is occupied with many activities – some personal, work related, government or non-governmental. These activities are associated with huge numbers of people at same places, movements, shopping and merrymaking. Every person is rushing to close the year on a positive note. …

SPECIAL FEATURE | Alfred Geresom Musamali | School cooks usually only prepare and serve food but during Uganda’s Nabumali High School Alumni Annual Dinner held at Hotel Africana in Kampala on Friday, 24th November, 2023, long-serving school cook Anthony Mang’ara was treated among the Very Important Persons (VIPs). The Secret is …

COMMENT | By DR HARRISON MUTIKANGA | A decade after Andrew Mwenda’s article, “Electricity cost going up 40%: but who benefits most from subsidies to UMEME?” in The Independent (Issue No.196 January 13-19, 2012), the details of electricity pricing, subsidy policies, and their ramifications remain a concern. Mwenda’s call to …

The prize and perils for the next occupant of the hottest seat in Uganda’s private independent media sector COMMENT | JOSEPH WERE | Monitor Publications Ltd is again managing director hunting after Tony Glencross announced he was leaving after eight years in the hot seat. Watching the coming and going of …

How America’s decision to remove Uganda from AGOA over the AHA hurts homosexuals more than homophobes  THE LAST WORD | Andrew M. Mwenda | Two months ago, President Joe Biden removed Uganda from the preferential trading arrangement with the USA, the Africa Growth and Opportunities Act (AGOA). I suspect the main reason was …

COMMENT | POLYCAP KALOKWERA | The global battle against climate change has made remarkable strides over the last three decades, marked by an enhanced understanding of climate science and the development of effective tools to address its causes and consequences. As the 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) convenes in Expo …

COMMENT | MICHAEL JJINGO | Speech is silver, silence is golden! Both are precious, with silence considered to be more valuable. Silence is the harder of the two. But, saying nothing sometimes says the most. And, when you have nothing to say, say nothing. The self-reflection that comes with silence allows …

Why the president and chief justice are making a mistake of trying to resolve commercial disputes using ethnic lenses  THE LAST WORD | Andrew M. Mwenda | The Chief Justice, Owiny Dollo, was quoted in Daily Monitor raising alarm bells on the problem of “land grabbing” in Acholi region. “I told him,” Dollo …

Uganda’s lost opportunities at next year’s big international conferences and what can be done to salvage the situation THE LAST WORD | Andrew M. Mwenda | January next year, Uganda will host two big international conferences back-to-back: the Nonaligned Movement (NAM) summit and the Group of 77 (G77) summit. This is an important …

A visit to Russia and witnessing the lost opportunities for cooperation with the West THE LAST WORD | Andrew M. Mwenda | This week, I landed in St. Petersburg, my first time to visit Russia, to attend a BRICS conference. There were very few people at the airport, so I went through immigration …