Museveni needs protection of foolish laws?By Muniini K. MuleraJanuary 6, 20190 comments#Museveni #Protest #Uganda #Justice FROM THE ARCHIVES Museveni needs protection of foolish laws? By Muniini K. Mulera July 10, 2000 Dear Tingasiga: News that the police had laid charges against a group of Makerere University students for allegedly annoying the President was another ...
Redraw Africa’s MapBy Muniini K. MuleraJanuary 5, 20190 comments#Africa #map #Congo (Map of Africa in the late 19th century) FROM THE ARCHIVES Redraw Africa’s Map By Muniini K. Mulera August 31,1998 One of these days, the guns in Congo will fall silent, leaving the cities, villages, forests and rivers strewn with bodies ...
US Gun Violence on its way to Uganda?By Muniini K. MuleraJanuary 5, 20190 comments#Gun #violence #in #USA #and #Uganda FROM THE ARCHIVES US Gun Violence on its way to Uganda? By Muniini K. Mulera March 6, 2000 Dear Tingasiga: The television screen came alive last week with yet more pictures of armed police officers with body armour, crouching behind trees and motor vehicles, ...
Congo, as it was, is now and ever shall be?By Muniini K. MuleraJanuary 5, 20190 comments#Leopolds #Ghost #Congo #Democratic #Republic #of #Congo #DRC #Mobutu #Kabila The regular traveller along the Masaka-Kampala highway in Uganda is accustomed to a dangerous stretch of road that has claimed thousands of lives since it was built by the Europeans. A road sign carries the grim warning: "WEKUUME LWERA", meaning "BEWARE OF LWERA." Many have ...
The president, his trusted adversary and a magnificent catastropheBy Muniini K. MuleraJanuary 5, 20190 comments#Museveni #Mbabazi #Uganda #elections #2016 Twenty years from now, my grandchildren will read with deep fascination a spell-binding account of a defining presidential election in which two former close comrades fought each other. They will read that the two men had enjoyed a long partnership leading a heroic struggle ...
Expose false prophets ripping big from the Jesus IndustryBy Muniini K. MuleraJanuary 1, 20190 comments#Pastors #false #prophets #evangelical #churches #man #of #God Tito Watts, a Zimbabwean “pastor,” wins the 2018 gold cup for Conman of the Year because of his daring originality in hoodwinking the gullible. In an industry that one thought had exhausted its bag of tricks, Watts and his wife Amanda devised a scam in which they sold ...
Joyful childhood memories of Christmas - By Dr. Jane NannonoBy Muniini K. MuleraDecember 27, 20180 comments#Kavuma #Christmas #Nannono Nothing awakens the child in me as the festive season. I only need to hear Silent Night or Joy To The Worldand the small girl in me lights up and is instantly transported back to her childhood. This is one place where I had felt loved, cared for therefore ...
Do not kneel before me, I am only a man myselfBy Muniini K. MuleraDecember 24, 20180 comments#Christmas #Uganda #Christianity #Poverty #in #Uganda Today, Christmas Day, church sanctuaries across the land will be full of worshippers, gathered together to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ. The clergy will be seated at the altars or other distinct places of honour. Front pews will be reserved for what the world calls VIPs ...
Virtues of political colour blindnessBy Muniini K. MuleraDecember 17, 20180 comments#Uganda #NRM #Political #colour The first time I had an opportunity to choose my own clothes was in 1966 when my mother took me to Bachu’s, our favourite clothier’s shop Omugabahindi (in the Indian section) in Kabale Town. I chose a red T-shirt that had clearly been made with me in mind. It was the beginning ...
David Wycliffe Tindyebwa: Impactful Ugandan heroBy Muniini K. MuleraDecember 10, 20180 comments#Tindyebwa #Hornby #High #School #Blind #Teacher My childhood memories are dominated by the exploits of famous athletes and other high achievers who inspired us to aim high in whatever we did. Kigyezi was a small place where we knew pretty much who-was-who among the great celebrities of the day. One of them was ...
Uganda’s deep-seated culture of recklessness needs Rwandan-style treatment By Muniini K. MuleraDecember 3, 20180 comments#Uganda #Road #Traffic #Accident The latest major disaster on Lake Nalubaale continues to evoke incredulity among many Ugandans. How does one make sense of the recklessness that claimed the lives of dozens and created hundreds of orphans? Survivors’ stories and the Uganda Government’s investigations ...
Lake drownings in Nalubaale: a collision of human folly and physicsBy Muniini K. MuleraNovember 26, 20180 comments#Nnalubaale #drowning #Lake #Victoria #Uganda Sadness. Anger. Fury. Pity. Disillusionment. Helplessness. These and other emotions have been pummeling me since I received the news of the premature and preventable deaths of almost three dozen Ugandans that drowned in Lake Nalubaale (Victoria) over the weekend. It goes ...
Neither Bride Price nor Dowry – Only Love Reigning Supreme: A letter to my niece and my nephew-in-love on their wedding dayBy Bbuye Lya MukangaNovember 25, 20180 comments#Bride #price #dowery #love #marriage Pre-script: In recent days, some friends have been having some back and forth among themselves about the marital concepts and practices of BRIDE PRICE and DOWRY. By way of definition, bride price comprises the payment by the groom (via one of or a combination of money, wealth ...
Uganda stands to benefit by ratifying protocol to eliminate illicit trade in tobacco products.By Talibita MosesNovember 21, 20180 comments#cigarettes #tobacco On the 27th of June 2018, conditions for the entry into force of the Protocol to Eliminate Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products were met following the accession of United Kingdom to the same. This legal requirement allowed Parties to hold the First session of the Meeting of the ...
Health Care Corruption in Uganda: A Matter of Life and DeathBy Muniini K. MuleraUganda Uganda Health MattersNovember 20, 20180 comments#Corruption #Uganda #Health #care #corruption #Uganda #hospitals #Uganda #doctors As we continue our conversation about the dangerous levels of corruption in Uganda’s health care service, there are two points that need emphasis. First, the majority of Ugandan doctors and other health workers are dedicated, honest professionals. A lot of what I am sharing ...
Why Uganda should scrap tax-payer funded private health careBy Muniini K. MuleraUganda Uganda Health MattersNovember 12, 20180 comments#Uganda #Healthcare #Uganda #Hospital #Uganda I understand why patients scramble to get referred to India and other distant lands for healthcare. First, there is a deep distrust of the Uganda health services – even at private hospitals. This, together with a natural tendency to believe that health care abroad is always ...