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, by OKIROR Samuel
Government hails 2% levy on alcohol and water as step towards greater independence from donors
Taxes levied on alcohol and soft drinks in Uganda will be used to fund the country’s HIV treatment programmes, in a move designed to make the country less reliant on donors.
The government believes (...)
, by OGOLA George
President Yoweri Museveni has ruled Uganda with authoritarian firmness for the last 32 years. But even his most ardent supporters were shocked by the ferocity with which his security forces recently meted out violence on journalists and supporters of Robert Kyagulanyi, a (...)
Ugandan singer turned politician Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, known as Bobi Wine, is at the centre of a storm in the East African nation.
A protester in Nairobi, Kenya, displays a poster calling for Bobi Wine’s release. Daniel Irungu/EPA
Ssentamu has been arrested and charged with treason in a (...)
, by AKUMU Patience
The net remains the only safe place for dissent – but President Museveni would rather silence critics than address their issues
On the morning of 1 July, Ugandans woke to find they could not read their WhatsApp messages, scroll through the chitchat on Facebook and Twitter, or post a picture of (...)
, by SERUMAGA Mary
The report of the Auditor General (AG) for 2016–2017 is another catalogue of systemic theft, embezzlement and wastage of public goods. In this, it is similar to audit reports going back at least two decades. It appears that incompetence as much as theft are responsible for the seeming inadequacy (...)
, by SERUMAGA Mary
Uganda has finally admitted that there is an increasing likelihood that the country will default on its debt obligations. The (Central) Bank of Uganda issued the warning in the first quarterly State of the Economy Report of 2018. The public external debt has trebled in the last three years. (...)
Three years ago, Samuel Mugisha almost quit his job. As the driver of a motorbike taxi (known locally as a boda-boda) in the Ugandan capital of Kampala, rampant police harassment was having a huge, negative impact on his daily earnings. But today, Samuel is thriving as a member of the (...)
, by SERUMAGA Mary
Uganda is in imminent danger of defaulting on its debt repayment obligations. The Auditor General notes in 2017 that interest payments on the public debt exceeded legal limits (15% of the annual budget) and are likely to be unsustainable going forward.
What will follow will be attempts by (...)
, by SERUMAGA Mary
An abiding image of Uganda in April 2017 is of a group of elderly people squatting around an anthill, men and women, patting it with bunches of greenery to coax the termites out. They then pluck up the termites and eat them, not as the seasonal delicacy usually caught by young people on moonlit (...)
, by MWANIKA John Mark , SPOONER Dave
Abstract
This paper analyses the power resources of informal transport workers in Uganda, and the transformation processes of the ATGWU and their newly-affiliated informal workers’ associations in organising informal workers. We examined the process of organisation; how strategic choices were (...)
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