Joseph Were

By Joseph Were They must start to think with their hearts and measure return on investment in emotional kilobytes Maj. Gen. Benon Biraro is your typical gentle giant; big face, wide eyes, thick lips, and strong neck on a heavy-weight frame. He is planning to run for president in 2016 …

By Joseph Were 2014 could be the best year for him, worst for the opposition Politically speaking, 2014 has started on a very quiet note; and that is very bad for opponents of President Yoweri Museveni in a year that must set the pace for the outcome of the next …

By Joseph Were Museveni’s schmoozing with Stiglitz bad news for Mutebile When President Yoweri Museveni spoke at this year’s Joseph Memorial lecture in Kampala of the desirability of a “hybrid” economy, he marked a retreat from the current free market regime to his mixed economy days of the 1980s.  Time …

By Joseph Were Museveni’s schmoozing with Stiglitz bad news for Mutebile When President Yoweri Museveni spoke at this year’s Joseph Memorial lecture in Kampala of the desirability of a “hybrid” economy, he marked a retreat from the current free market regime to his mixed economy days of the 1980s.  Time …

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 …

By Joseph Were “Unfortunately for Besigye, his team missed even the well known view that polls, even bogus ones, create the so-called “herd” mentality of voters swing to the side of the one reported to be winning.” “A voter told The independent: “Besigye forgot that he has to get the …

By Joseph Were Donors fear the President is either raiding the reserves at Bank of Uganda or printing new money World Bank Country Director John Murray McIntire who flew into Uganda on January 12 landed right into the middle of a perfect storm brewing between the government on one hand …

By Joseph Were and agencies On which side will BoU intervene, if at all? The weakening of currencies in the East African region against the U.S. dollar experienced in the last two weeks is likely to persist, according to analysts. Dollar demand by offshore investors and the corporate sector to …

By Joseph were Long-necked beer bottle named brewer’s 18% growth Questions about why Nile Breweries is battling to retain sole use of the 500 ml long neck bottle on the Ugandan market have finally been answered. The long-necked bottle is one of three factors that Nile’s parent company, SABMIller of …

By Joseph Were It has not been a wonderful world at Zain Uganda according to its official third quarter financial statements. The telecom giant recorded a net loss of US$ 3.6 million (approx. Shs7 billion) over the three months’ period ending September 30 on top of a 27 percent drop …