Andrew Mwenda titled his piece in The Independent of February 2, 2012, "Reflecting on last presidential elections". A close reading of his article leads one to the conclusion that a more appropriate title should have been "Deflections on the last preside

A couple of weeks ago, Andrew Mwenda, one of Uganda's liveliest political analysts, wrote a provocative piece in these pages about Uganda's regime of bloated electricity subsidies. He documented a severe distortion in the Ugandan economy, and then attemp

Uganda is poised disprove Albert Einstein, the German-American genius who said, "The problems of the world (read Uganda) cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them". Arrangements are in advanced stages to hold talks that are meant to get

One evening in May 2011, Conrad Nkutu, the former managing director of Monitor Publications Limited, was ushered into Dr Kizza Besigye's spacious living room at his Kasangati residence. It had taken weeks for Nkutu to get hold of Besigye, given the busy

FDC Party president Kizza Besigye has distanced himself from the on-going press reports that he is due to meet President Museveni for direct talks even though he concedes there is need for a meaningful dialogue between the government and the entire oppos

As has happened almost wherever he has travelled since his re-election over 15 months ago, when President Paul Kagame visited Uganda recently, journalists were quick to ask him whether he would step down after his current and, according to the national c