Tag Archives: The Last Word

    How the abuse of the public trust through looting of public funds is going to cause a terrible backlash at the perpetrators   THE LAST WORD | ANDREW M. MWENDA | Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba has been tweeting his frustration with mass and endemic corruption in Uganda’s public sector. Many …

     How Uganda came so late and lonely to acquire a cash and carry government where every citizen is for themselves   THE LAST WORD | ANDREW M. MWENDA | My column last week titled “When illness strikes a leader” attracted a lot of attention and commentary. In it, I …

    How Museveni’s eighth decade on earth, fifth in power, is placing Uganda’s future at a big risk   THE LAST WORD | ANDREW M. MWENDA | A Ugandan “businessman” called David Senfuka recently went to President Yoweri Museveni with a proposal. He told our president that he (Senfuka) had …

US troops before leaving Afghanistan. One of many countries American presidents have invaded to achieve their war plans How the war against Iran is not a Trump creation but a deep-seated American way of doing things THE LAST WORD | ANDREW M. MWENDA | US President Donald Trump campaigned on …

How a once shattered country has become a beacon of hope for the rest of Africa THE LAST WORD | ANDREW M. MWENDA | Tuesday, April 7th Rwanda held commemorations marking 32 years since the beginning of the genocide that killed over a million of its Tutsi citizens. It is a …

    How our government’s borrowing and spending is putting our country at the risk of default   THE LAST WORD | ANDREW M. MWENDA | In a recent podcast of Bad Natives, I argued that there is a real risk of Uganda defaulting on her domestic bonds in two to …

  How the Speaker’s growing political influence is leading to increasing pressure for her to go   THE LAST WORD | ANDREW M. MWENDA | The battle for speaker of parliament is going to be the defining issue of the next five years of President Yoweri Museveni’s government. Of course, the …

   How attempts by America and her NATO allies to weaken Russia in this proxy war may wreck the alliance THE LAST WORD | ANDREW M. MWENDA |  As a new war rages on in the Middle East, we must not forget that it is four years since Russia invaded …

    How the current conflict in the Middle East is reordering the world and may risk a dangerous escalation THE LAST WORD | ANDREW M. MWENDA | The joint USA-Israel attack on Iran has set the Middle East on fire and risks a global conflict of unimaginable proportions. It is …

  The US has long enjoyed the world’s cheapest energy, but China is now set to take that position THE LAST WORD | ANDREW M. MWENDA |  In 2020–2021, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd (TSMC) leapfrogged US-based Intel in the production of advanced chips. All of a sudden, TSMC could produce …