Bond: Ethiopia becomes Africa’s latest sovereign default
According to two sources familiar with the situation, bondholders had not been paid the coupon as of the end of Friday December 22, the last international banking working day before the grace period expires.
Stolen right to land: Why are young Ugandan graduates joining risky slave labour in Middle East?
What we are seeing is a volcano waiting to explode. The grabbed land belongs to Ugandans, not the grabbers. Tomorrow Ugandans will grab it back to themselves from those pretending to be the owners of the land. The graduate slaves, will one day come to the realisation that their generation has been cheated, exploited and wasted. It will be like the slaves of USA who struggled to free themselves.
Why Uganda needs ‘Most Notorious Failures Museum’: The good and bad of 38-year presidency
Unfortunately, politicisation and militarisation of everything possible has become the norm rather than the exception in Uganda. In many cases, hypothesis testing and exploratory testing are eliminated and what is desired is implemented, often at very high cost in terms of energy, time, money, justice and development.
Obote to Oboteism, Amin to Aminism, Museveni to Musevenism: Sabotaging constitutionalism in Uganda
Resistance to President Milton Obote’s second reign almost immediately meant that he had no time to reintroduce the Common Man’s Charter nor revitalize his social programme. There were many human rights violations, but most of these could have been by his armed opponents trying to convince the people that Obote’s regime had no capacity to assure their security.
France’s bloodhound Napoleon Bonaparte and Uganda’s Museveni may have lived in different epochs, but are every inch similar
Napoleon Bonaparte and Tibuhaburwa Museveni have both been referred to as militaristic dictators who relied more on the gun to rule and extend their military adventures in neighbouring countries, but were such adroit rulers that they couched their dictatorships in democratic cover to conceal their excesses in the exercise of power and authority in the countries they ruled.
Somalia, US forces kill al Shabaab leader behind numerous attacks in region, minister says
The department said he was responsible for preparing an attack on a military base in Kenya in January 2020 in which three Americans – one US military service member and two contractors – were killed.
Busoga in eastern Uganda is known to be richer with gold than Congo, but why is it poor?
Our education system is a success story in producing a selfish elite that is so individualistic that expecting it to be holistic in thought and action would be overstretching it, or expecting too much from it.
By harping on ‘modernity’ and ‘modernisation’ President Museveni has found nebulous reason to rule Uganda
As part of the strategy of globalisation and modernisation, President Tibuhaburwa Museveni’s government, like many other governments, did with their countries, integrated Uganda in the World Trade Organisation (WTO).
How WFP bungled food aid revamp for refugees in Uganda, now hundreds go hungry and miss school
Uganda, which allows refugees to work and move freely within the country, is often held up as an example of a progressive host nation that is a good testing ground for others to learn from: What works in Uganda – or doesn’t – often influences what happens in other responses.
Forex: Kenyan, Zambian currencies in-play against backdrop of subdued dollar supply
Zambia’s kwacha could hold steady next week or fall slightly as hard-currency supply remains subdued. On Thursday the kwacha was trading at 25.20 per dollar from 24.55 a week ago.
