Uganda’s roads sector: It’s a classical case of ‘Tragedy of the Commons’ and ‘Holy Grail’
With regard to the roads sector in Uganda, the resources are basically the trillions of shillings invested in it by both government and external donors. To many people, the trillions have not resulted in the improvement of roads in Uganda. The trillions of shillings seem to be sinking into a bottomless pit. With very low levels of accountability and transparency in the allocation of contracts and use of the funds, the tragedy of the Commons in Uganda is a spirally evolving phenomenon in the 21st century.
Governance by deception: Does grubby Museveni have to cling to discredited top-down economic model to rule Uganda?
Everything is deception. The sale of public assets by the NRM/A was deception. It was stated the aim was to enhance efficiency but instead they ended up in the hands of government functionaries and their fronts, usually Indians.
Trump foes in GOP hope US Constitution’s ‘insurrection’ ban will keep him off 2024 ballot
Passed after the US Civil War, Section 3 bars anyone from holding public office if they engaged in “insurrection or rebellion” after previously swearing an oath in support of the United States.
Election observers flag ‘massive irregularities’ as Congo rules out re-run, opposition plan protests
The team of Moise Katumbi, one of Tshisekedi’s main challengers, has ruled out using legal channels to contest results, asserting that state institutions were committed to tipping the vote in the president’s favour. The CENI denies this.
So inefficient is Uganda government that the president has the luxury to decide when you can die on Kampala-Jinja Road
It is the president who decides whether or not Jinja-Kampala Road, which has become a principal killer road, to be or not be made passable.
Uganda urgently needs pragmatic economics as Museveni’s idea of wealth creation is a fleeting daydream
Unfortunately, this is turning Uganda into a potentially and actually security and peace poor or deficient country well into the future. One consequence, yet to rear its head, will be destruction of what we now call islands of development, transformation and progress.
Dilemma reigns in GOP after two states bar Trump from primaries amid domino effect fears
Trump is already being prosecuted for the attempt to overturn his 2020 loss that culminated with January 6, but Section 3 doesn’t require a criminal conviction to take effect. Dozens of lawsuits have been filed to disqualify Trump, claiming he engaged in insurrection on January 6 and is no longer qualified to run for office.
Failed state: Irony of Uganda being $12 trillion rich in gold but proud to export slave labour to Middle East
In any case behind every problem is the problem of leadership and, by extension, governance. The decisions the leaders and governors take or do not take, the choices in governance that the governors prefer to apply in governing a country and its resources (human and non-human); how they govern ecological-environmental systems on which all other systems depend for their structures, functionalities and futurities; and the administrative styles and practices
Respite for GOP frontrunner Trump after Michigan Supreme Court declines to hear appeal to disqualify him
The Michigan ruling contrasts with a decision by Colorado’s top court last week to disqualify Trump under the same constitutional provision, known as Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. Trump has vowed to appeal the Colorado ruling to the US Supreme Court.
US ballot 2024: With party primaries around the corner, Americans worry about presidential vote
About one-quarter of US adults say they have “only a little” confidence or “none at all” that both the Democratic Party and Republican Party have a fair process for selecting a presidential nominee. About half of independents have that low level of confidence in both party’s processes, compared with one-quarter of Republicans and 19 per cent of Democrats.
