On Saturday I met a friend- Awel Uwihanganye whose NGO (CEED) is at the centre of organising the Gulu Marathon. Awel is very passionate about events in northern Uganda and has worked with many nonprofits in the region. After exchanging pleasantries, the first issue that popped up in our conversation was whether I will be […]

Competitions tend to bring the best and the worst in contemporaries but, attaching the spy claim on Muntu will hurt FDC the most. FDC adherents must stop labelling Muntu an NRM mole. Such labelling highlights the success of the propaganda machinery of the establishment to sow discord within the party. Gen. Muntu is above the […]

A   few political commentators tend to under-state the efforts of Dr. Kizza Besigye (KB) in reclaiming the political space we have today. Although bravery is a scant virtue among any oppressed population, KB’s gallantry has concrete achievements. Oppressed people often adapt to their state of oppression by submitting or emulating the ways of their Oppressors. KB’s […]

  Writing in the daily monitor recently, Mr Rinus van Klinken, the SNV Uganda Dairy programme manager advocates that “Parents should contribute to children’s school feeding.” He notes in the articles that, “In 2016, SNV through its dairy project funded by the Dutch government launched a national school milk pilot to get 5,000 school going […]

In the last decade, Gulu has experienced peace from twenty years of senseless genocide. This peace has proffered for youths to gather the debris of life to build a society of hopeful individuals. Many have ventured into social or grassroot journalism and local transportation. Using social media, youths have brought Gulu to the world, and […]

The day lands Minister Betty Amongi stormed Amuru bristling with state power in her second attempt to forcefully survey land for sugarcane growing after a botched first assault, a journalist covering the affair told me cowed locals on seeing boots bolted for the bushes or hid in their huts, popping out to ask the journalist, […]

Africa with a landmass of 30m Km2, twice the size of Europe, and with a population of 1.2billion inhabitants, is also the continent most afflicted with preventable incidences of violence and natural disasters that cause displacements. The consequences of violence alone, on displacement and human life are remarkable. The 2017 Global Report on Internal Displacement […]

In critical development, colonial legacy is synonymous with under-development of Africa. That a post-colonial Museveni is reproducing under-development by replicating colonial era economic exploitation approaches is quite surprising. When colonialism took root in Africa, its motive was to exploit Africa and its resources to feed European consumer capitalism. Indigenous Africans were valued only for labour, […]

When you watch on TV Arua municipality’s Member of Parliament Ibrahim Abiriga or Kasanda County’s Simeo Nsubuga let out war cries in their surge to rip off the untested age limit from the pages of the 1995 constitution, what do you sense as their true driver? In power for a cool 31 uninterrupted years, a […]

By Livingstone Okello- Okello Since I wrote to Ms Betty Amongi, minister of Lands, Housing and Urban Development about two weeks ago, she replied to me through Whatsapp saying I should have sought clarification from her before writing the letter. With all due respect to the minister, I am old enough to know under what […]