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  Why former service personnel remain one of the most underused national security resources   COMMENT | MATHIAS RUKUBA | When a security officer, police officer, military veteran or other service professional leaves active duty, society often sees a retired uniform, an empty position and someone who has reached the end …

  COMMENT | CRISPIN KAHERU |  Anyone who watched Olara Otunnu face the UN General Assembly in this week’s interactive dialogue saw something different in modern diplomacy. He answered hard questions without notes, without hedging, and without losing his composure, meeting probing queries from ambassadors with clarity and, occasionally, his characteristic …

  Uganda’s economic growth is real, but the poverty I have witnessed across the country demands that leaders look beyond the headline numbers.   COMMENT | JULIUS BUSINGE | “Give me Shs1,000 and I will buy salt; get me Shs500 and I will buy a drink; contribute some money for …

  The death of another iconic Ugandan playwright is a funeral for Ugandan theatre   COMMENT | NNANDA KIZITO SSERUWAGI | Alex Edward Mukulu Kabangala has joined Byron Kawadwa, Rose Mbowa, John Ruganda, Elvania Zirimu, and Robert Serumaga in death, or perhaps in eternity as the memory of Uganda’s artistic expression …

  OBITUARY | HENRY MUTEBE |  When news of Alex Mukulu’s death came on August 15th, many Ugandans remembered the tough judge they had watched on Yolesa Ekitone on Bukedde Television. They remembered the blunt man who rarely massaged words, the judge who could stop a performance midway and tell …

  ALEX MUKULU EXITED THE STAGE -THE BALL IS STILL ON THE PENALTY SPOT.   OBITUARY | PATRICK OYULU | I am Patrick Oyulu, and you? “My name is Tony Kasule,” he replied. That was my introduction to my new roommate in B1-6, Lumumba Hall, Makerere University, in 1992. I was …

COMMENT | JAN-WERNER MUELLER | Here in the Albanian capital Tirana, the hotel receptionists go out of their way to stress that the ongoing protests outside are entirely peaceful. Apparently, there have been quite a few room cancellations since mass demonstrations began in the spring. But ask them directly, and they …

  Over the last few days, we have seen media reports about Uganda Railways Corporation but not enough about the contractors behind the attempt to revamp the Railways   STELLA OKETCHO | COMMENT | Consultrans’s relationship with Uganda’s railway sector did not begin with a single contract – it began with …

Why Is PAU Changing Course on the Eve of First Oil? COMMENT | CHIMPREPORTS | With Uganda approaching the most commercially consequential moment in its petroleum history, there is a seemingly mad-dash for the apex position of Executive Director and the Petroleum Authority (PAU), pitting 12 candidates. After two decades of …

COMMENT | Barnabas Taremwa Bwaniaga |    On Monday, August 3, 2026, I came across a press release by H.E. President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, addressed to the Bazukulu and the general public, in which he thanked Ugandans for their successful participation in the LC1 elections. What particularly caught my attention, however, was the …