democracy

By Andrew M. Mwenda President Yoweri Museveni’s suspension of the Democratic Governance Facility (DGF) has caused uproar. This has been a big programme by Uganda’s “development partners” aimed at “providing harmonised, coherent and…

Throughout the centuries, competitors of the prevailing system have known that disaster presents them with an opportunity. Writing about the Black Death, which culled more than 40 per cent of Europe’s population, the historian David Herlihy…

The National Resistance Movement (NRM) political party has been in charge of this country for the last three decades, and a lot of positives have been registered in most sectors although this success can be attributed to its ideological…

By Andrew M. Mwenda Last week, police using heavy-handed methods stopped the MP for Kyadondo East, Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine, from holding a concert. Even President Yoweri Museveni agreed that the brutality police employed was…

Of late, we have witnessed and will continue to witness the wave of social misfits taking on the leadership mantles across the globe, as people attempt to perfect the concept of freedom of choice. Leadership is said to be the ability of…

The National Resistance Movement top organ has just concluded a week-long retreat in Kyankwanzi the Vatican replica of Uganda`s political process, where they have openly discussed and passed several resolutions. Whereas these resolutions…

Following reports that Stockton South MP Dr Paul Williams (Labour) would lead a debate in the United Kingdom parliament to discuss” as a friend and equal partner” the "things that have been happening in Uganda" in regards to democracy and…