A market stall is not a substitute for a meal, but it can restore choice – Vandergraph
A market stall can look like a modest enterprise: a little produce, a small table, the patient work of serving customers.
Category: Opinion
Criminalize the cook or monetize the smoke? Why Uganda’s charcoal stand-off demands carbon trading, not disproportionate enforcement bans
With 87% to 94% of Ugandans relying on biomass (charcoal and firewood) for their survival, the state cannot deploy police or even soldiers to police nine million kitchens.
Balaam is exposing something about the ROTTEN STATE
Balaam Barugahara’s videos show that the agencies of the state are either paralysed or are working actively to sabotage the state.
Is it balance of terror or power by UN veto permanent five and is ICC American or African nightmare, blackmail and coarcion “tool”? – writes Barrister Peter Magomu Mashate
The UN contributes funds, especially when the ICC investigates and prosecutes cases referred to it by the UN Security Council.
Opinion | Climate change is real, and Uganda has no plan
Climate change cannot be managed by press conferences, Presidential addresses and workshops in Kampala by experts and politicians.
Opinion | Lessons from Rhodesia to Uganda
In colonial Southern Rhodesia, 200,000 white settlers ruled over 4 million Africans.
Why the truth has become an endangered species in Uganda
In contemporary Uganda, the truth has become an endangered species, writes Prof. Oweyegha-Afunaduula.
Kole North MP Dr. Acuti: Fighting corruption in the roads sector needs an iron fist, not a wooden stick
While the Fourth National Development Plan (NDP IV) has set a target to reduce the cost of paved roads to shs3.1 billion per kilometre, achieving this goal demands more than good intentions.
Uganda’s education budget is growing: the share going to education is not
Uganda’s total budget grew faster than its education share, and Uganda has been spending around 2.3% of GDP on education on average since 2018/19.
Thou shall not drive to drink and eat well: More taxes on fuel, alcohol and cooking oil
We should embrace the new taxes “with pleasure,” as the DFCU bank slogan says.
Lango must wake up as the 2026/27 budget opens new economic frontiers for Uganda
If Lango aligns itself with the priorities reflected in this budget, the sub-region has the potential to become one of Uganda’s most dynamic centres of agricultural commercialisation, and industrial growth.
The 7 dogmas in Uganda’s governance
Like a river picking up sediment, Uganda’s governance is carrying seven dogmas that block critical reasoning.