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When marriage issues breed national political debate

Posted 4 days ago

In Ivory Coast, President Alassane Outtara sacked his entire Cabinet in a row over a new marriage law which stipulated that wives be joint heads of the house. Outtara’s party supported the new law that could have made a couple responsible for all major...

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Mr Werikhe at a function in Kampala.

Energy minister, oil authority can co-exist, says MP Werikhe

Posted 4 days ago

The Speaker of Parliament, Ms Rebecca Kadaga, suspended Parliament last week after the...

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A mother ropes a nodding syndrome patient in northern Uganda to prevent her from moving around.

If Western aid money returns, steal it

Posted 4 days ago

Today, when Western ambassadors and visiting cabinet ministers and US Assistant Secretaries...

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A lady reads an oil story. More Ugandans are expressing resentment over the way Parliament is handling the proposed oil law.

A people’s caucus can end mass robbery

Posted 4 days ago

What is needed now is a “People’s Caucus” between MPs and the population, to counter the...

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Young man pushes a handcart of oranges on Market Street in Kampala

Living honestly in highly corrupted pearl of Africa

Posted Sun Dec 02 02:00:00 EAT 2012

We look at our lives, filled with daily struggle, where money is always insufficient to meet...

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stresses a point in Kampala early this week

Civil society boss: Bigirimana cannot be a whistleblower, he has to leave

Posted Sun Dec 02 02:00:00 EAT 2012

The “End Theft” campaign is doing well because we have a number of people who have agreed to...

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Activists in Kampala

Why Germany will not cut aid over gay Bill

Posted Sun Dec 02 02:00:00 EAT 2012

When the Bill was first tabled in the last parliament, Mr Loning travelled to Uganda and...

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Lawyers want Judiciary probed

Lawyers want Judiciary probed over graft

Posted Sun Dec 02 02:00:00 EAT 2012

Disturbed that though the Judiciary has in the past taken steps to address some of the...

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Kagame

Why Rwanda should honour John Kale

Posted Sun Dec 02 02:00:00 EAT 2012

In September 1955 Kale was denied a passport for UNC international office travel. He crossed...

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Corruption: New approach needed to fight ‘viral vice’

Posted Sun Dec 02 02:00:00 EAT 2012

Lango wisdom states that odero pe pyete kene, meaning that you cannot just be in the waiting...

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