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.
Stamping out corruption is Museveni’s pet topic, but it remains Uganda’s epitome as long as he’s in power
There is every indication that President Tibuhaburwa Museveni will make corruption a pet topic as long as he remains president. He will promise heaven on earth in stumping it out. However, increasingly many Ugandans are convinced that corruption is integral to NRA/M and its government.
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.
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).
Uganda’s politically burdened judiciary is a slave of the executive and incapable of serving justice
Indeed political interference in judicial processes has been the rule rather than the exception. By the Constitution assigning the power of appointment and approval to the president of Uganda, it created a straight avenue for the Executive to interfere in the workings of the judiciary.
After 155 years of dormancy, clause in US Constitution on insurrection threatens Trump’s campaign
So far, very little in the real world. Aware that the case was very likely going to the US Supreme Court, the 4-3 Colorado Supreme Court majority stayed their own order until January 4 – the day before the state’s primary ballots are due at the printer – or until the Supreme Court rules.
