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• ‘NRM continuing contradictions about Ugandan women’s rights’
  As a former Secretary to the NRM’s Nairobi-based External Committee in 1984 to 1986, it is easy for me to track NRM’s continuing contradictions on women’s based human rights in Uganda.
  
  
• Term limits may bring a mere change of guards, not fundamental change
  One maintains lack of term limits as the cause of our problems. Another says term limits are the main cause, while admitting that electoral conduct plays a contributing role.
  
  
• Time to remove imbalances in the international trading system
  While concerted efforts and measures have been undertaken at national, regional and international levels to respond to the global financial and economic crisis, many of our countries’ economies are still grappling with its adverse effects.
  
  
• Why innovation is dying fast at Makerere
  Whether you call it the Ivory Tower or the Cream of the Land, Makerere University should prove its worth by educating students capable of solving both the current and future problems of Uganda and the World at large. Innovation is the mother of creation and Makerere University should create elites...
  
  
• The significance of positive criticism
  Since 1986 when the Movement government came to power I have observed a spectrum of comments and opinions that have been expressed, concerning the performance and conduct of the government.
  
  
• Rich country, poor people
  The only way out of Shabunda is to walk 350 km to Bukavu through the jungle or to fly. Residents do not have the money to fly. Many of them live and die without leaving Shabunda. Goods here can cost up to four times more than elsewhere in the Democratic...
  
  
• It is not possible for the President to try to solve every problem in Uganda
  Many Ugandans have watched their Presidents endeavour to solve every political, social, legal and religious conflict that has bedevilled this country from time to time. This phenomenon has increasingly become fashionable since the days of Idi Amin. The Field Marshall attempted to solve academic problems, believed he solved...
  
  
• On the challenge to re-invent, revitalise the Uganda Peoples Congress: Part I
  The ongoing regrettable wrangles within the Uganda Peoples Congress (UPC) are not an isolated case or unique in the realm of African politics. Virtually all the once mighty independence political parties in sub-Saharan Africa are experiencing similar challenges and difficulties.
  
  
• Pursuing Obbo’s lies left the emperor clearly naked
  President Yoweri Museveni’s scathing outburst against Kenya-based Ugandan journalist Charles Onyango-Obbo published in both New Vision and Daily Monitor on May 7, left the Ugandan leader more exposed than the man he was trying to expose.
  
  
• Curry colleges commence recruiting British trainees
  Everybody knows Britain’s favourite meal is roast beef and Yorkshire pudding. Or maybe fish and chips. Or possibly sausage and mash, bacon and eggs, boiled beef and carrots, tripe and onions or pease pudding and saveloys. The truth is they are all big favourites, but poll after poll has shown...