July 12

• Uganda: Cultures for Sale [opinion]

  It was October 2010. President Yoweri Museveni was locked in a presidential election contest with Dr Kizza Besigye. A decisive blow, an event, an endorsement was needed by either... Read more »

• Uganda: No More Manna for Karimojong

  Severe effects of climate change are making life in the already semi-arid Karamoja, in northeastern Uganda, even more difficult. Too much heat has led to crop failure, more stress... Read more »

• Rwanda: 54 Years of Rwandan Refugees Ending

  June 30 marked a major step for Rwanda refugees and a step to ending one of the longest refugee chapters in the world when the UNHR-invoked Cessation Clause came into effect. Read more »

• Uganda: Promoting a Saving Culture

  KCB Uganda, a subsidiary of the KCB Group of Kenya, will soon mark six years since launching in the Ugandan market. Albert Odongo, the bank's managing director, spoke to Julius... Read more »

• Uganda: Katto Bowing Out of CMA a Happy Man [interview]

  Capital Markets Authority (CMA) is looking for a new chief executive officer to replace Japheth Katto who has steered the institution since its inception. Joan Akello spoke to him... Read more »

• Uganda: 20 Tactics and Counter-Tactics of Successful Negotiation By Experts [book review]

  The first thing you need to realise is that people do not always want the same thing. You might not even have to negotiate if you can find what the other side wants. Often, people... Read more »

• Rwanda: Rwanda Awards Best Artisans

  In recognition of craftsmen in Rwanda, the Ministry of Trade and Industry last week awarded the best artisans in the country. Ten handicraft artisans received prizes under the... Read more »

• Uganda: Shs600 Billion Swindled in 10 Deals

  Up to Shs 1.6 trillion or about 20 percent of all the money spent by various government departments in the 2011/12 Financial Year was either stolen, misused, or not properly... Read more »

• Uganda: NSSf Nets Sh1.9 Billion Umeme Dividend

  The National Social Security Fund (NSSF) has received a gross dividend of Shs 1.97 billion from its Shs 36 billion investment in the power distributor Umeme. This dividend, which... Read more »

• Uganda: New Guidelines On HIV Treatment Excite Patients

  News that the World Health Organization (WHO) has recommended that antiretroviral therapy (ART) be given to HIV patients earlier has been welcomed by patients, medical personnel,... Read more »

• Africa: Obama's Late Date With Africa [opinion]

  What does Africa have that America could want? It seems that is a question not even Barack Obama, on his first extended trip to the continent since becoming American president five... Read more »

July 05

• East Africa: An East African Spring? [analysis]

  Blood runs down the street. Dark and menacing. Young men gather in a tight circle. Chanting. At the centre of the crowd are a large sow and her piglets. The animals do not seem to... Read more »

• Uganda: Flower Gloom

  In the recent past, ten companies have quit the flower business in Uganda, a clear indication of the tough times the sector is facing. Read more »

• Uganda: Middle Class Captives of the State [opinion]

  In "The missing intellectual voice" (The Independent June 21), Andrew Mwenda revealed interesting traits of the social and political transformation in Uganda. Read more »

• Uganda: DDT Use Not Good for Uganda [opinion]

  Prof. George Kirya ignores evidence from Mexico, Vietnam, and Kenya that shows how malaria can be eradicated without using DDT. Read more »

• Uganda: Bribes Killing Business

  Corruption in some of the East African countries is one of the major problems facing Rwandan drivers of the long distance vehicles which transport some Rwandan imports and exports. Read more »

• Uganda: GOTv Outs Free to Air Channels

  GOtv, a digital pay television network, is bringing more to Ugandan television lovers with the launch of the GOtv Open bouquet, under which a subscriber will have access to the... Read more »

• Uganda: Sentongo's Sentimental Fish

  With his new solo exhibition, Amos Sentongo will tell you that he's marking a major step in his life. This can be traced by his choice of theme "A new beginning" for this... Read more »

• Uganda: 50 Percent Decline in Wasteful Expenses

  Rwanda's public institutions are making improvement in managing public finances which is leading to reduced irregular and wasteful expenditure, the 2012 Auditor General's report... Read more »

• Uganda: Politics of Tap Water

  When Finance Minister Maria Kiwanuka proposed to introduce VAT on piped domestic water in her new budget, there was uproar from a cross-section of Ugandans including MPs, who argue... Read more »

• Uganda: Uganda's Inefficiency and Corruption

  Andrew Mwenda's "Uganda's Incompetence Paradox" in his column The Last Word (The Independent June 28) makes for interesting reading. He fronts the unorthodox argument of how... Read more »

• Africa: What Obama Needs to Do for Africa [opinion]

  The whole world is still focused on President Barack Obama, the man who made a political miracle by becoming the first Black President of the United States of America in 2008 and... Read more »

• Uganda: Wakula Ennume's Gamble

  UTODA's Awakula Ennume Transport Cooperative Society is raising money from the public to invest in hundreds of buses but experts say it could pose a big risk to the investors'... Read more »

• Uganda: 'Has the Road to Your Home Been Completed?'

  A few weeks after Maria Kiwanuka read the budget, officials from her Finance ministry and the Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) are showing how transparency and accountability will... Read more »

• Rwanda: Rwanda Central Bank Targets Credit Growth

  Banks in Rwanda are expected to increase lending in the third quarter this year following the reduction of the base lending rate of the National Bank of Rwanda (BNR) to commercial... Read more »