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Lessons from Kibaki for Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi ANALYSIS | JM KAVUMA-KAGWA | February, 2013 | Uhuru Kenyatta, the son of Kenya’s founding president, Jomo Kenyatta, and Raila Odinga, the son of his Vice President, Jaramogi Oginga Odinga, are contesting in the March 4 Kenyan General Election to succeed President Mwai …

By Bosco Hitimana President wants `change, stability, continuity’ as his term expires in 2017 President Paul Kagame, on Feb.8, 2013, challenged his ruling Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF) cadres to chart the way forward for the country’s leadership after 2017 when his term ends. The Rwandan constitution allows the head of …

By Julius Businge The Ugandan based Twenty Third Century Systems (TTCS), has launched a cloud computing service that will benefit the small and medium enterprises (SMEs). TTCS is the pan-African IT company that provides the largest SAP cloud computing business solutions in sub Saharan Africa. While launching the solution, TTCS’s …

By Andrew M. Mwenda Why the president must be happy with the current debate between him and his leading critic I have been following with keen interest the debate in the press between President Yoweri Museveni and opposition leader and activist, Dr. Kizza Besigye. From the standpoint of a democratic …

By Pearl Natamba How do patients and their attendants avoid infections if they cannot find water to wash their hands at the nation’s top health facility? It is easy, when you are in the casualty ward at Mulago National Referral Hospital in Kampala, to imagine that possibly all disease causing …

By Mwalimu Musheshe Open letter to the Minister of Agriculture Animal Industry and Fisheries Dear Minister, on behalf of the NAADS Board of Directors of June 2009 to June 2012, I write to express our concern, demand an apology and show how consciously or unconsciously someone or you are killing …

By Ronald Musoke A Ugandan software development team, audaciously called Ffene, has been chosen among the three winners of the 2012 Apps4Africa business challenge. Out of the close to 300 applications from nearly 1000 people, three winners were picked and awarded US $10,000 each. The other two winners came from …

By Julius Odeke The State Minister for Foreign Affairs Henry Okello Oryem also MP for Chua County in Kitgum district says the new envoy to the war-torn country; Prof. Sam Turyamuhika arrives in Mogadishu any time from now. He says, “Turyamuhika will be deputized by Maj Gen Nathan Mugisha, formerly …

By Aloysious Kasoma Opposition Democratic Party (DP) has distanced it’s self from the allegations that former Vice President and NRM MP Gilbert Bukenya is in talks to run for presidency in 2016 on the party ticket. A local newspaper reported yesterday that Bukenya is considering joining the Democratic Party with …

By Ronald Musoke A number of civil society organizations led by the Centre for Health, Human Rights and Development (CEHURD) are to appeal in the Supreme Court against the maternal health care case they lost last June in the Constitutional Court. David Kabanda, the director of programmes at CEHURD noted …