Despite global shipping disruptions, the bulk of the materials required for First Oil are already in the country, with only a limited amount still in transit—mainly from Asia. COMMENT | ALI SSEKATAWA | As every second, minute, hour, day, and month winds down, Uganda edges closer to its promise—the dawn of oil …
Read More »Magogo right on reforms to Ugandan club football
Institutional vs Community Clubs, Magogo Right this time! COMMENT | ALI SSEKATAWA | Football in Uganda naturally attracts passionate and organic support. Despite this deep connection with fans, the game has been struggling for nearly two decades as match attendance continues to dwindle, especially in the Uganda Premier League and the Big …
Read More »2026: Politics, AFCON, and the next phase of Uganda’s oil story
COMMENT | ALI SSEKATAWA | They say “the sun that rises slowly lasts till evening,” and 2026 is shaping up to be such a year for Uganda — one unfolding with steady confidence and carrying the weight of significant national promise. January is quietly taking its bow, February waits in the …
Read More »Uganda’s transformative infrastructure calculation
Uganda on the brink of energy independence COMMENT | ALI SSEKATAWA | Uganda is slowly but surely positioning herself on the path to transformative infrastructure that will propel among others energy independence, marked by a series of historic milestones achieved in the past six months. First was the closure of external financing …
Read More »Ssemakadde’s rhetoric suited for activism, not law society
Will Ssemakade, then, take a page from Bobi Wine’s book and reshape his image? Only time will tell COMMENT | ALI SSEKATAWA | In 2016, I led a group of young lawyers in a movement we called the “Nakivubo Declaration.” It was a direct encounter to what we termed the “Kampala …
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