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
Tullow Oil has released its half-year trading statement. Its good news for
ast night, on the Hot Seat, a radio program on which I am a panelist and often play, the devil’s advocate, we
A “viral” rumor is doing rounds by word of mouth in Northern Uganda. Old men and some able-bodied ones are passing it
The East African rift valley is like a mother with her warms stretched out. In 2006, she opened her left hand to
This is a quick post to capture the rather extraordinary direction that the whole Kony 2012 is taking. Firstly, Uganda’s Prime Minister
On Wednesday, March 14, the International Criminal Court (ICC) will witness its first verdict for war crimes in its history. The timing
“O Nigrizia o morte!”—”Either Africa, or death” Daniel Comboni “Now that you have come and seen for yourselves that I am not
As I prepared yesterday’s post on #Kony2012 I sent an email to Daniel Travis who is the Public Affairs Officer at the
Millions of viewers have thronged to watch a video put together by the California based media company “Invisible Children” about one of
Some observers of Uganda’s “democracy” may have missed the bigger picture that we “optimists” see. Where they seechaos as a sign of
2009, I was together with other journalists crammed into the Ministry of Finance boardroom, to witness a handover of the leadership of