Has Democracy Failed in Africa?
Out of 15 African countries which held elections in 2016, power changed hands only eight times. That’s according to the Mo Ibrahim Foundation. All eyes are set for the remaining elections this year. Four of Africa’s longest-serving leaders, Cameroon’s Paul Biya, Angola’s Jose Eduardo dos Santos, Equatorial Guinea’s Teodoro Obiang Nguema and Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe, […]
New Details Emerge On Uganda’s Museveni, Besigye Talks
The Swedish mediator for the planned talks between President Museveni and four-time presidential candidate, Dr Kizza Besigye, secretly visited and held one-on-one, but separate, conversations with the two men in December 2016 and again last month, this newspaper can reveal. Details contained in official correspondences show that Ms Annika Söder, the Swedish State Secretary, has […]
You Are Thieves, President Yoweri Museveni Tells Finance Officials
Raging over the extraordinary scale of corruption in his Cabinet, President Museveni has described the Finance ministry as “a ministry of thieves” and volunteered more details on how senior government officials arrested last week, had solicited a bribe of more than Shs15b from Chinese investors who wanted to establish a Shs2 trillion phosphates plant in […]
EPA Trade Deal With Europe Is a Form of Colonialism, Says President Magufuli
Tanzanian President John Magufuli Sunday described the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) as a “form of colonialism”, dampening the country’s possibility of signing the deal with the European Union (EU). “It is bad for our country,” Dr Magufuli affirmed. Addressing a joint press conference with visiting Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni at the State House, Dr Magufuli […]
Why Are Ugandans So Angry?
How economic success has tended to create more political trouble for Museveni than comfort Very many Ugandans are angry, very angry. They feel the country has lost direction. They argue that our politics is corrupted, our democracy in retreat, and elections are rigged. They say the economy is not growing, poverty is increasing, inequality is […]
President Museveni Weighs-in On U.S-Russia Row, Warms Up to Donald Trump
President Museveni has sucked himself into the ongoing verbal rattling between liberals and conservatives over new US President Donald Trump’s relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin, by penning a missive proposing a middle ground in the divisive international politics. In the statement likely an attempt to endear himself to President Trump, whose policy outlook towards […]
No Money for Sanitary Pads in Schools to Fulfill President Museveni’s Promise
Government has backtracked on its earlier pledge to provide sanitary pads to school going girls so that they do no run out of school when their menstrual periods start. While appearing before the Parliament’s Education Committee on Tuesday, Ms Janet Museveni the education minister revealed that this is not possible because the ministry does not […]
Ex-President Apollo Milton Obote Plots to Overthrow Strongman President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni,
When the December 1980 general election took place, I was away in Tanzania for a course. I had escorted some 23 young officers to Tanzania for the training. It was, of course, true that that election was massively rigged. I got reports that in West Nile, anybody who was not supporting UPC (Uganda Peoples Congress) […]
Uganda Stuck With Museveni Because Opposition Stuck With Besigye
Given the high growth of visits to my page during the this festive season, I will be posting daily briefs on the crisis of the opposition in Uganda which I want to blame largely on Dr. Kizza Besigye. Indeed Uganda is stuck with President Yoweri Museveni in large part because the opposition is stuck with […]
Uganda is Beautiful, But Here is Yet Another Area Where it Excels
President Museveni once said Uganda had transformed from a net exporter of refugees to a net importer. He was bragging. The point being that his government had created a decent enough environment that masses of Ugandans were no longer fleeing across the borders for their lives. With the current flood of refugees into Uganda, especially […]
