NEWS ANALYSIS

By Independent Analysts Will Uganda become an open dictatorship in 2013? On December 12, 2012, President Yoweri Museveni was in Russia and met with President Vladimir Putin at the Novo Ogaryovo, the official residence. It was an interesting meeting because, although President Museveni has been in power for 26 years, …

2012 was truly a year of lows; such as the crash of the UPDF choppers in Kenya, the unending tales of corruption in high places, and the spate of virulent attacks of Ebola and Marburg. But it is also a year when Uganda was lifted high when an unknown runner, …

By Independent Team Museveni, First Lady put on the spot In life, fallen young Butaleja Woman MP, Cerinah Nebanda Arioru, was flamboyant, vocal, and controversial. When she was a first year student at Makerere University’s Faculty of Social Sciences, Nebanda who was barely 19, was the only student who had …

By Joan Akello Archbishop Ntagali takes office at trying moment He sat between two men of God. They have been in his position. Faced with a tougher job, under close scrutiny of a bigger congregation, the new Archbishop of the Church of Uganda, Stanley Ntagali, looked relaxed and only shifted …

By Sarah Namulondo The appointments committee of Parliament has approved George Bamugemereire as deputy Inspector General of Government. Early this year, the Constitutional Court ruled that the Inspectorate of Government could not carry on with its work until the office was fully constituted. To that Museveni reacted by nominating Andrew …

By Independent Team Why pass a costly law you cannot enforce? On Monday Aug. 6, America’s top magazine for sophisticated high-end readers, The New Yorker, published an article online entitled, `Gay and Proud in Uganda’. Written by Alexis Okeowo, the story reported the first-ever Gay Pride Parade in Uganda at …

By Haggai Matsiko The bottom-line of the chaos over Clause 9 of the oil Bill On Friday Dec. 06, President Yoweri Museveni presided over an unusual caucus of MPs from his ruling party, NRM, in parliament.  Altogether, there were 130 MPs. Museveni, looking somber, Museveni asked each of them to …

By Joan Akello Experts propose ways to ensure poor maintenance does not kill off Shs 3bn venture If fuel shortage causes a stampede at the fuel pumps, imagine a patient on a hospital bed, gasping for breath, and needing urgent resuscitated with emergency oxygen. Unfortunately, if that patient is at …

By Independent Team How NRM pumped money into Nandala Mafabi’s campaign When the first two candidates on the podium of the WBS TV auditorium for the FDC Presidential Elections Debate on Nov. 19 stood and shook hands, the smiles appeared genuine and the pleasantries uncontrived. Then ululations broke out at …

By Ronald Musoke As the world strives to get to zero infections, Ugandans are getting a confusing message on interventions As World AIDS Day (Dec. 1) was this year marked with increased optimism across the globe, in Uganda a persistent decade-long rise in new infections and prevalence is causing panic …