By Robin D. Kibuka Ph. D Uganda’s current challenges with food shortages, food inflation and overall price inflation, and a volatile exchange rate increasingly appear to be more entrenched than originally thought and are likely to continue to exert pressure on overall macroeconomic and poverty outcomes for some time to …
Read More »Post 9/11 America and post genocide Rwanda
By Andrew M. Mwenda Who should lecture the other about how to exercise restraint in the face of severe security threats? Last week, I was invited by Rwanda’s minister of foreign affairs, the pleasant Louise Mushikiwabo, to attend a public lecture by United States permanent representative to the United Nations, …
Read More »Better services for the bottom billion
By Obiageli Ezekwesili and Paul Collier Early results from a survey in Africa showed that pupils were taught for only two hours a day World leaders, governments, aid agencies, and NGOs, will converge on the Korean port city of Busan over the coming days to talk about making development aid …
Read More »Impunity of African leaders must end
By Prof. George Kanyeihamba There is need to establish institutional structures and transparent procedures to eliminate corruption In political, social and economic terms, impunity means contemptuous behaviour that is at variance with the accepted norms of legitimacy, decency, legalism and the well being, judgment and expectations of the majority of …
Read More »Separating fact from fiction
By Andrew M. Mwenda We cannot fight corruption using corrupt or unfair and unjust means On the opposite page, Nicolas Rugaba Agaba criticises me for taking the now infamous oil bribery documents to President Yoweri Museveni. He insinuates that this compromised my investigation since the President has no will to …
Read More »Invest oil revenues carefully
By Deus Mukalazi Should the US$ 331.4 million budgeted for the Karuma Power project and the purchase of military jets have been our first During her budget speech this year, the Minister of Finance, Maria Kiwanuka allocated US$ 331.4 million for the Karuma Hydro Power Project. The minister was only …
Read More »Who is Karuhanga fighting for?
By Andrew M. Mwenda Without arbitration, Uganda has US$ 405m in its treasury. With arbitration, we have a 50 percent risk of losing it. I read with great pain and frustration the Sunday Monitor interview with the western youth Member of Parliament (MP) Gerald Karuhanga about alleged bribes paid to …
Read More »Mbabazi could become Museveni’s Achilles
By Joseph Were Defending him has shredded the President’s armour of invincibility and unleashed the virus that will destroy him Prof. Waswa Balunywa of the Makerere University Business School in Kampala has entrenched views about the role of leadership that he likes to encapsulate in a single mantra; “leaders are …
Read More »Inside the American Dream
By Andrew M. Mwenda The folly and delusions of a nation that has forgotten the concerns of its ordinary citizens And so it was that on Nov. 4, I flew to New York City from London via Amsterdam. Upon landing at JFK International Airport, I entered the longest queue in …
Read More »The paradox of power
By Andrew M. Mwenda How politicians and civil servants use Museveni as a cover to make payments to claimants from which they earn huge commissions At the height of his power, Marshal Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire appeared as if he was in complete control of the country and its …
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