By Timothy Kalyegira National events at Kololo Airstrip in Kampala like Independence Day, Labour Day and others used to last about two hours. Since 2008, they have started taking on the feel of mammoth, all-day festivals. The main reason is that as President Yoweri Museveni has gotten more insecure in …
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By Timothy Kalyegira Africa has become important not just as an intelligence listening post and army and naval base for counterterrorism originating in the Middle East, but also as a haven and breeding ground for home-grown terrorism ranging from the Al-Qaeda in the Maghreb that acts to destabilise North Africa, …
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By Timothy Kalyegira These new discoveries of oil have increased Africa’s strategic importance on the world stage, but there is even more to this than these mineral deposits. The last 15 years have also seen countries like China, Brazil, Russia and India registering strong economic growth and with that lifting …
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The Independent Uganda: You get the Truth we Pay the Price
