If the quality of a country’s laws could be judged by the size of its legislature then Uganda’s obese parliament, with close
To many Kampala residents, downtown protests that involve running battles between the Uganda police, para-military forces and “opposition” crowds may as well
It is possible that the Chinese will take the contract for the “beautification” of Centenary Park. Until recently the park, a former
Of the many ways in which America’s presidential campaign can affect us in East Africa, perhaps the cat that leaped out of
I recognized immediately it was a dream. I was attending the funeral of Cwa Kabalega. Before I woke up I was having
At Forest Mall, errand boys and girls for Kampala’s wealthy families dash back and forth. The Mall is part of a string
Uganda’s most ambitious public works project, the 600MW power dam at Karuma falls has been stopped on its tracks. The ministry of
Uganda’s largest opposition political party, the Forum for Democratic Change, is going through its first significant election to replace its long-term chairman
Just 57 years of age, Meles Zenawi, a polarizing Ethiopian prime Minister, reformer and intellectual is dead. Now Ethiopia is going through
After a drought of some 40 years, Stephen Kiprotich, has picked up an Olympic gold medal for Uganda. It is such a