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
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
Lobby, Speke Resort Munyonyo, August 8. There is a silence in the final declaration of the “extra-ordinary summit” of the Great Lakes
During their lunch break at the Conference Center of the swanky Kampala Serena, diplomats emerged and filed past mostly quietly. The buffet