August 05, 2011

• Uganda: The Beautiful Garden That Can't Feed the Hungry

  Uganda cannot sit on a green belt and continue to sit on its hands as the terminally arid region starves to death. Read more »

• Uganda: Nation's Neglected Top Treasure

  Uganda would probably not have over 30 percent of its citizens surviving on less than a dollar per day and about half of the population unemployed if one of its top potential... Read more »

• Uganda: Inside Museveni's Visit to Kagame

  From mutual suspicion to mutual trust Read more »

July 29, 2011

• Uganda: An Unexpected Departure

  On the morning of July 12, 2011, employees of Tigo Rwanda were left in shock when their CEO, Tom Gutjahr, grabbed a few things from his desk and hurriedly walked out of his office,... Read more »

• Uganda: UPDF Meets Russians to Buy Eight Fighter Jets [document]

  UGANDA PEOPLES' DEFENCE AIR FORCES Read more »

• Uganda: Strength in Numbers [analysis]

  The success of group schemes is making financiers re-think their fear of lending to farmers Read more »

• Uganda: Winning Hearts And Minds [interview]

  Basil Gadzios, managing director of Century Bottling Company - makers of Coca Cola - tells The Independent's Peter Nyanzi that leaders who win the respect and trust of their... Read more »

• Uganda: We Want In! [analysis]

  Burundi intends to catch up to EAC partners with optic fibre connection Read more »

• Uganda: MTN Pays Shs 7.8 Billion

  MTN Uganda has paid 1% of its 2010 revenue (Shs 7.83 billion) to the Rural Communication Development Fund (RCDF) as required by the Communications Act (1997). "The commission [uses... Read more »

• Rwanda: The Local Inflation Surge

  Rwanda's inflation is now swinging at a staggering 6.2 percent, just 1.3 percent shy of December 2011's maximum inflation allowance of 7.5 percent. The increase, which is caused by... Read more »

• Uganda: Despite Disadvantages, IMF Predicts More Growth for Local Economy [interview]

  Rwanda is an emerging economy, but the size of its market is smaller than every other EAC country, except Burundi. In terms of investment, such a scenario creates huge obstacles. Read more »

• Uganda: When Rural Rutooma Got Electricity [analysis]

  Tuwangye Yorokam excitedly tells anyone willing to listen how electricity has made everything exciting in his village of Rutooma in Bwizibwera, Mbarara district in western Uganda.... Read more »

• Uganda: Who Will Defend the Rural Poor? [analysis]

  The benefits of high food prices go to the rural poor (the majority) while the costs are incurred by urbanites, a minority. Read more »

• Uganda: Sanaa Gateja On Hisworld-Famous Art

  A dapper older gentleman in a fresh China-blue and white kitenge African-patterned shirt approached me at the coffee house with a large grin. So elegant he almost gave a Florentine... Read more »

• Uganda: Can Govt Meet Teachers' Pay Demands?

  Both primary and secondary school teachers threatened a countryside strike demanding 100% salary rise. The government responded defiantly saying there was no money in the budget to... Read more »

• Uganda: A Country of Traders [analysis]

  Business census raises questions about trade's dominance of the economy and its links to poverty Read more »

• Uganda: Origin of HIV - Myth And Reality [opinion]

  On June 5th 1981, the Centres for Disease Control (CDC) reported a cluster of cases of pneumocysitis pneumonia, a very rare condition, in 5 gay men in Los Angeles. This was the... Read more »

• Uganda: Why Prolonged Detention of Suspects

  This scenario is caused by needless adjournments, lengthy inquiries and worsened by few judicial officers, prosecutors and detectives to handle cases. Read more »

• Uganda: From Lanky Patriot of 1975 to 'Heavy' Baron Today [analysis]

  Glued to their seats in a classroom that was the biggest in this rural primary school of Bubangizi, were parents fearful of what was going to befall their school since the lanky... Read more »