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On October 29 - 30, the Office of the Prime Minister, the Ministry of Finance and the World Bank had a workshop discussing the new Joint Budget Support that is being given to the Uganda government. What 'Joint Budget Support' means in simple terms is that a few donors have come together and decided to support Uganda by putting money in the national budget and then it is spent based on the ...
While mourning his son, Bryan Bukenya (who died in a road accident last weekend), the Vice President, Prof. Gilbert Bukenya, made some very notable remarks: "He was the only boy who could scratch my back. The only boy whom I would give Shs1,000 and he would return the change." (Daily Monitor, Nov. 10) And the New Vision quoted him saying: "Bryan has been very well behaved and honest. I had thought ...
THE people who preach Press freedom are very articulate in expressing a view of how the media ought to function, but this model hardly shows how the media do function.
MINISTER WILLIAM RUTO and retired President Moi made important statements early this week to the effect that Kenyans must learn to seek homegrown solutions to local problems.
THIS COUNTRY IS THREATEN-ed. And it is not because we have an unbearable Constitution or electoral boundaries. It is rather because we are tribes or micro-nations whose political and economic needs and interests are not being protected by the current Constitution and electoral boundaries.
IN RECENT DAYS, SOME POLITI-cians have been trying to convince the world that Kenya is a sovereign nation that cannot be dictated to by foreign powers and individuals. They claim that the likes of Luis Moreno-Ocampo and Kofi Annan are foreigners meddling in Kenyan affairs.
The American culture is arguably the most profound on the globe because of its diversity. The intensity of this culture is ironically rooted in the history of slavery and subjugation of African-Americans until they were forced to fight back using all means necessary.
Since my academic career was launched and nurtured in Uganda, and Uganda is the source of the Nile, I regard my professional life as a child of the Nile. I have had a special relationship with Uganda. What do I owe the country? I owe Uganda my loyalty and creative engagement. But I also owe Ugandans eternal frankness. I was after all a citizen as well as a scholar. I learnt things in Uganda which ...
Recently, I travelled from Kabale to Kisoro. This is a road that is getting tarmac for the first time in human history. What amused me were the numerous road bends, climbing and descending of hills and mountains. Some of the bends are quite blind and dangerous- capable of causing accidents.
Last week "Objection!" submitted that Uganda ought to be wary of increased Chinese and Arabian investments in the region if we are interested in moving towards democracy, good governance, impeccable observance of human rights and overall freedoms. The reason is simple and straightforward: if you are looking for any of the four issues above, China and the Arab world are precisely the places you ...
Local Government Minister Adolf Mwesige's motion in Parliament earlier this week seeking to create 21 new districts is most disheartening. It implies that by the end of 2010, this country will have a whooping 101 districts, up from 33 in 1986. For the record we now have 80 unwarranted districts. The creation of districts for political expediency in the face of spiralling public expenditure is ...
A move hailed as one of the boldest yet in reforming the 8-4-4 education system is turning out to be a nightmare for secondary school teachers and students.
It will be another two years before Kenyans can dare dream of featuring in the Africa Cup of Nations. The country's campaign for the World Cup and Africa Nations Cup in 2010 was nipped in the bud largely because of poor management and wrangles off the pitch.
Like him or hate him, Didier Drogba is currently the best value for money player in the world. And I am not writing this as a Chelsea fan or an African. That his playing style dictates he may never win the annual Fifa World Player of the Year award is irrelevant. No player - neither Cristiano Ronaldo, nor Lionel Messi, nor Frank Ribery, nor Ricardo Kaka is as good a shift as Drogba .
Cape Town and the World Cup draw await, but there are those who still haven't earned the right to join the party. The tragic death of German goalkeeper Robert Enke, who had been a sure bet to be in South Africa next June, has yet again brought forth the bitter irony that football shouldn't be a matter of life and death, a quite sobering perspective for me and you.
Mohammed Haruna, your ace columnist in his Wednesday, November 11, 2009 comments on the unfortunate death of Tasi Mashi, a leading member of a Katsina political vanguard ('Yan Banga) entitled: The President's politics with bitterness ... and meanness, got three things wrong.
The 2009 edition of FIFA Under-17 World Cup hosted by Nigeria is over. The concluded round leather tournament has revealed that if there is the political will to resolve the country's knotty problems of underdevelopment, there would always be some ways just as we have just muddled through the recent competition triumphantly.
Suddenly, the dull political space is about to come alive. Some figures in the ruling class are getting set to do what we have all expected to see happen, and this is to commit class suicide, by aligning with the people to change a decadent order.
Welcome to Uganda, country of ghosts. If you are entering from the east, you will pass through the ghost towns of Tororo and Jinja, once prosperous centres of economic activity until the ghosts moved in.
In what way can our State House retaliate against the District of Columbia's White House?
Popular culture is invariably my refuge every time the world becomes too real.
While in Rwanda recently, two incidents made me reflect on the state of the East African Community and its ability to cater for the needs of more than 10 million disabled people in the region.
I have an uncomfortable feeling that Charles Ngatia is producing the sort of pictures that I would churn out if I were a painter ... that is, regrettably bad ones.
Recently, a major real estate brokerage house in Nairobi released an index that showed a decline in house prices in the city for the first and second quarters of 2009.
Africa Essence was launched in Nairobi last Wednesday. Sounds like a perfume or a clothing line?
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