democracy

The Ball in Our Court: Nurturing Corruption or Integrity

By Denis Wabuyi Some habits die hard if at all they die. Others don’t die until they take them with you. And in some countries like Uganda where the dead are deployed as ancestors, even in the grave some habits of some people still live on. As you all know, I live in a bizarre country where integrity has been kicked to the corner and mauled to pieces. In more than few instances, anyone’s act of honesty and integrity earns them a place on the wrong side of humanity according to Ugandan standards. And these signs have dogged us for Read More

UGANDA: Outgoing US envoy @USAmbUganda left us with a very important message

Point-blank. The outgoing US Ambassador to Uganda Deborah Malac addresses a press conference yesterday in Kampala. PHOTO BY ABUBAKER LUBOWA MARTHA LEAH NANGALAMA – Ambassador Debrah Malac is one of Read More

UGANDA: Outgoing US envoy @USAmbUganda left us with a very important message

Point-blank. The outgoing US Ambassador to Uganda Deborah Malac addresses a press conference yesterday in Kampala. PHOTO BY ABUBAKER LUBOWA MARTHA LEAH NANGALAMA – Ambassador Debrah Malac is one of Read More

UGANDA: Outgoing US envoy @USAmbUganda left us with a very important message

Point-blank. The outgoing US Ambassador to Uganda Deborah Malac addresses a press conference yesterday in Kampala. PHOTO BY ABUBAKER LUBOWA MARTHA LEAH NANGALAMA – Ambassador Debrah Malac is one of Read More

SENEGAL: President throws opponent into jail, bars him from running in elections

Image copyrightAFPImage captionKhalifa Sall was elected to parliament last year even though he was in detention Senegal’s Khalifa Sall, mayor of Dakar, jailed for fraud BBC – One of Senegal’s Read More

UGANDA: Presentation on the Economic Crisis in Uganda to the UK Parliament

Presentation on the Economic Crisis in Uganda. By Dr Vincent Magombe Secretary Free Uganda (FU) Leadership Committee and Press Secretary FU. The Great Lakes Region Meeting, The UK Parliament, IPU Read More

LITERATURE: On freedom, Kahlil Gibran

On Freedom, Kahlil Gibran At the city gate and by your fireside I have seen you prostrate yourself and worship your own freedom, Even as slaves humble themselves before a tyrant Read More

UGANDA: Museveni, EU team discuss Somalia, South Sudan

KAMPALA (@UG_EDGE) – President Yoweri Museveni has called for support of the European Union to the efforts of the NRM Government as it strives to address the challenges that have Read More

AFRICA: U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to skip Uganda on African tour

Washington’s vision of a genuinely inclusive political process in Ethiopia, Kenya and other African nations includes institution-building, peaceful transitions of power, and holding governments accountable to the people, the official Read More

TANZANIA: Magufuli security organs shoot dead student

The situation is East Africa is not good and democracy is now a sham. There’s too much use of force by the regimes in power and all institutions of democracy Read More

AFRICA: No democracy unless change is allowed

Obasanjo in DW exclusive interview: ‘Democracy is about change’ DEUTSCHE WELLE – President Buhari should not run for another term in office, ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo advised in a letter to Read More