Dr. Crispus Walter Kiyonga could have been president. The medical doctor is a towering figure in the Movement of President Yoweri Museveni. He was responsible for supervising Uganda’s successful response to the Ebola crisis in 2000, the same year a religious fire claimed
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Drug dealers in Uganda’s capital city are the Uber generation. Attentive to the mood and movement of society they offer their services to fit the city’s hopes and nightmares. There is cocaine for the mid-level bank manager who wants a high to keep plugging away at her job – trying to keep rivals at bay.
One of the theories now “dismissed” in explaining the relationship between the
Garbage truck drivers and their crews may appear the least likely to
Uganda has passed the Anti-Homosexuality Bill. In passing the bill the Ugandan parliament played to the gallery of publicly conservative Anglo-Christian values
When the heat dies down in the latest bloodletting in South Sudan, Africa’s newest state, it should not be obscured that above
The following is a speech by Kenya’s Chief Justice Willy Mutunga in the spirit of the debate here on ethnicity, values and
I had not read James O’Connell’s 1967 essay on the “Inevitability of Instability” in African post-independence settings until this weekend. In broad
morning before the day of the demonstrations to “save” Mabira forest, I came to the office at the Daily Monitor in Namwongo
The debate on the future of the elected Mayor of Kampala has come full circle. A judge-led tribunal has found him unfit
I am reposting this New Yorker blog on how private philanthropy is involved in pursuing one of the world’s most wanted men.
The framing of the present debate on constitutional review has one flaw. In seeking to bring a Bill to amend the Constitution,
The world has been mourning the tragedy at Westgate mall Kenya. Terrorists killed dozens of innocent people, in a country seen as
After court ruling todayasking the Speaker of Parliament to throw out 5 Mps expelled by the ruling National Resistance Movement (party) is