/News/Insight/-/688338/688338/-/6cqcpf/-/index.html http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/Insight/-/688338/1382088/-/saoog6/-/index.html If you thought soldiers are battle-hardened to cry over simple matters then you are wrong. This week, a military chopper touched ground at Entebbe International Airport carrying UPDF soldiers from Somalia, who are here for a 10-day off. 2012-04-07T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/Insight/-/688338/1382090/-/saoogt/-/index.html Central to this is the level of insight and resources present. If insight and/or resources are monopolised by a group or class or are used for other purposes, then the actual level falls - or exists - below the potential, and violence is present in the system. Structural violence is present in the system when the system produces less than it is capable of. 2012-04-07T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/Insight/-/688338/1382092/-/saoogv/-/index.html The African Union is allergic to deadlock, even competition, when it comes to filling positions. It thrives on consensus. The January showdown over the AU Commission chairmanship between incumbent Jean Ping of Gabon and Nkosazana Clarice Dlamini-Zuma of South Africa was very much out of the script. 2012-04-07T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/Insight/-/688338/1382110/-/saop27/-/index.html Since the general election, Uganda has lost more than one year bogged down in civil unrest and all kinds of redundancies. The Executive Director of Kampala City, Jennifer Ssemakula Musisi, has tried heroically to restore order to Uganda’s dysfunctional capital but simply running rough shod over numerous groups with vested interests in the chaos in the city. 2012-04-07T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/Insight/-/688338/1363400/-/s9hdw8/-/index.html Jason Russel and his Invincible Children, a US charity, have earned their fame. You could say cheap or whatever. With a runtime of 30 minutes, Kony 2012, that features at its heart a heartrending tale of LRA survivor Jacob, a teenage from Acholi where the LRA committed the most horrendous atrocities for 20 years, was posted on Monday. But by Friday night, it had hit 56,647,137 viewers. 2012-03-10T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/Insight/-/688338/1363402/-/s9hdwa/-/index.html In the wake of the collapse of the Holy Spirit Movement rebel uprising in Acholi in 1986, an offshoot called the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) was formed to fight the brutality that the victorious NRA guerrilla army of Yoweri Museveni had unleashed on the Acholi after 1986. 2012-03-10T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/Insight/-/688338/1363368/-/s9hdab/-/index.html A Kenyan traditional leader on Thursday presented Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe with an unusual gift - a black and gold gown that was once donned by disposed Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. 2012-03-10T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/Insight/-/688338/1363404/-/s9hdwc/-/index.html International agencies are not innocent either. Political institutions which represent the most important developmental institutions are frequently stealthily sabotaged by international aid assistance. The case in point is the aid conditioned upon accepting homosexuality as a normal way of life! 2012-03-10T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/Insight/-/688338/1363406/-/s9hdwe/-/index.html I have reliably learnt that Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) has allocated Shs8 billion towards the renovation of the two major taxi parks in the Central Business District (CBD). 2012-03-10T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/Insight/-/688338/1363396/-/s9hdcw/-/index.html Once enacted, the Bills will repeal the 1985 Petroleum Exploration and Production Act Cap 150, which is now obsolete and has been surpassed by time and events. 2012-03-10T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/Insight/-/688338/1358428/-/s8ybnr/-/index.html When soldiers and the President’s representative begin to mess, then something is fishy. In Bukedea, RDC Michael Bwalatum wants to stamp his authority in the district by smearing all potential guys who can be listened to by powers in Kampala. 2012-03-03T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/Insight/-/688338/1358434/-/s8yboj/-/index.html If by any chance you have also been “rumbling” and calling for Mutebile’s neck over Hassan Basajjabalaba’s hefty payout, then you are better off eating foofoo or picking your nostrils. Why? 2012-03-03T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/Insight/-/688338/1358432/-/s8yboh/-/index.html The results of the Friday parliamentary elections in Iran, will tell us much about Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s ambitions and concerns, but little about what the people of Iran want. 2012-03-03T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/Insight/-/688338/1358430/-/s8ybof/-/index.html On February 13, 2012, the Acholi parliamentary group issued a press statement in which they accused me of inciting Madi to claim Acholi land in Amuru District, I reject this accusation because it is based on ignorance and falsehood. 2012-03-03T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/Insight/-/688338/1358414/-/s8ybmr/-/index.html As the minds of more and more Ugandans focus on the meaning of this year as Uganda’s 50th Independence anniversary, we are groping about for answers to the problems that continue to resist any solution. 2012-03-03T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/Insight/-/688338/1324018/-/s71tjf/-/index.html “I have been in this trade for three years; we get our supply from northern Uganda because the charcoal produced there is of good quality and in high demand,” Mr Sserwada says. The charcoal trade, referred to as “black gold” by Kampala traders, has become more profitable than the forests where trees are being indiscriminately cut down for charcoal-burning. For the rural population, charcoal trade is an opportunity to earn an income. However, because of this lucrative trade, Uganda loses close to 73,000 hectares of forest cover annually, which has crippled the country’s climate. 2012-02-10T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/Insight/-/688338/1320116/-/s6y325/-/index.html The public is getting weary of all these stories, not because they are not interested but because they send them deeper into gloom and despair and which excesses they are helpless to stop or prevent. 2012-02-04T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/Insight/-/688338/1320118/-/s6y327/-/index.html Currently, there are intellectuals who erroneously defend the increment of electricity tariffs, claiming that the move is in the interests of the poor in Uganda. Notably among them is Andrew Mwenda in The Independent of January 13 – 19, 2012. 2012-02-04T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/Insight/-/688338/1311406/-/s6dash/-/index.html In a Youtube clip, the tall, lean figure in flowing garb crisscrosses the stage belting out poetic lines to the wild excitement of a London crowd. The words are in Serer and French so the multitudes’ ecstasy must be triggered by the musicality of his powerful vocals embellished with the acoustic beats of West African drums. 2012-01-21T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/Insight/-/688338/1311402/-/s6dasd/-/index.html On Thursday a scheduled Forum for Democratic rally called by the party’s Kampala Woman MP, Ms Nabilah Naggayi Ssempala, was broken up by the Uganda Police. FDC President Kizza Besigye, Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago and Ssempala herself were arrested and detained at police stations. 2012-01-21T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/Insight/-/688338/1311404/-/s6dasf/-/index.html The modernisation of the Uganda Revenue Authority’s (URA) payment system, which has not only streamlined tax collection and payment but is also set to revolutionise various spheres of public service provision, is proof that African public administrations and their users may derive many benefits from the introduction of innovative payment solutions. 2012-01-21T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/Insight/-/688338/1301408/-/s5qqw8/-/index.html Thanks to the Anti-Homosexuality Bill, Uganda’s homosexuals continue to awe the Western media, politicians and human rights groups, no doubt the very opposite of what MP David Bahati intended to achieve when he tabled his Private Member’s bill in 2009. 2012-01-07T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/Insight/-/688338/1301404/-/s5qqw4/-/index.html With less than a week into the new year 2012, the political landscape lost no time in springing up its surprises. News reports emerged at the start of last week that President Museveni and opposition leader Dr Kizza Besigye were in talks, or were being drawn into talks. What those talks were to be about was not spelt out clearly but we can assume they would have to be either about reconciliation or about power-sharing. 2012-01-07T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/Insight/-/688338/1301406/-/s5qqw6/-/index.html A friend on holiday from Europe gnashed his teeth as we watched the Diaspora Awards presided over by Vice President Edward Ssekandi at The Kampala Serena Hotel. 2012-01-07T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/Insight/-/688338/1301410/-/s5qqwv/-/index.html In spite of the head-start offered by centuries of close links with Africa, India did not have a coherent strategy on Africa until the tail-end of the 20th century, according to Alka Acharya, an associate professor in Chinese Studies at the Centre for East Asian Studies in Jawaharlal Nehru University. 2012-01-07T21:00:00Z