In The Magazine

By Stephen Kafeero & Ivan Rugambwa Planned loan scheme could throw students into the debt pool without a clear payment plan Tonny Nalima completed his Senior Six and hopes to join university for a degree in Petroleum Engineering. When we met the university admission lists were not yet out but …

By Luke Phillips How I won second gold After shutting out strong Ethiopian and Kenyan squads to add the world marathon gold to his Olympic title on Aug.17, Stephen Kiprotich, says he is very happy the race was competitive. “I realised I could win after 40km. Then I just kept …

By Ivan Rugambwa Healthcare workers are the heart and soul of healthcare delivery systems, says Ambassador Scott DeLisi Every two days, at least one doctor heads to the airport of a poor African country and flies off to work in Europe or America. Up to 2000 doctors have left in …

By Haggai Matsiko New evidence shows how suspects in the case could walk free •   She needed to have consumed 200 times more Cocaine to die •   She needed to have consumed 35 times more alcohol to die •   Urine sample sent to UK and Israel possibly was not hers …

By Julius Businge A team of information technology experts from the South Korean National Information Technology Promotion Agency (NIPA) is in Uganda to undertake a feasibility study for the establishment of implementation of a Government Integrated Data Center (GIDC), Disaster Recovery Site (DRS) and Shared Services and Public Key Infrastructure …

By Independent Reporter Health Minister Ruhakana Rugunda has praised the relationship between Uganda and China and described it as “mutually beneficial”. Dr Rugunda was one of a dozen African health ministers and Chinese health officials who on Aug.16 gathered in Beijing China for the Ministerial Forum on China-Africa Health Development. …

By Julius Businge Government has been urged to immediately pass the anti-money laundering bill so that all matters related to the vice are well handled. Money laundering which is a process of concealing the source of large amounts of money that have been gained through illegitimate means is said to …

By The Independent Team Uganda’s Olympic champion Stephen Kiprotich on Saturday won the men’s marathon at the World Championships in Moscow. Kiprotich, the winner at last year’s London Games, became the first non-Kenyan to win the title since 2005 when he crossed the line in two hours nine minutes 51 …

By Kennedy Odede For how long will a majority serve a minority, accept a lack of water, sanitation, education, and dignity? My mother, like her mother, her grandmother, and so on, was born into poverty in the rural village of Rarieda, Kenya. I, too, was born in the village, and …

By Andrew M. Mwenda Our intellectuals need to broaden the debate on our failures from individual presidents to our elite class generally I think I have lost my faith in the wickedness of African leaders. A significant amount of debate on the failure of Africa to develop as rapidly as …