Muniini K. Mulera

Africa’s great volcanos and Uganda’s Alliance for National Transformation

By Muniini K. MuleraJuly 31, 20230 comments

#ANT #Alliance #Uganda #Alaso #Muntu #Muhabura #Mgahinga #Gahinga #Mugahinga #Sabyinyo #Bisoke #Mikeno #Karisimbi #Volcano #Sebahire

Photo: Gahinga, Sabyinyo, Bisoke, Mikeno and Karisimbi viewed from the Second Hut on Mount Muhabura. © Ezra Sebahire ************ The Alliance for National Transformation (ANT), which was launched on Wednesday May 22, 2019, is like Ibirunga, the eight volcanic mountains in Africa’s ...

Experience at Nakasero Hospital and critical inequalities in the land

By Muniini K. MuleraUgandaMay 22, 20230 comments

#Nakasero #hospital #Miiro #Nsubuga #Candiru #Namata #Uganda

Photo: Dr. Marvin Miiro Nsubuga, a specialist in internal medicine in Kampala, Uganda. (© Muniini K. Mulera) ********************** The overwhelming healthcare needs of Uganda’s population can cause as much despondency to health professionals as they do to patients ...

Homosexuality: Ugandan scientific research needed

By Muniini K. MuleraApril 25, 20230 comments

#Homosexuality #Uganda

President Yoweri Museveni respects science and scientists. He often exercises admirable patience before making evidence-based decisions. It is my hope that he will exercise the same patience and insistence on solid evidence before assenting to an amended Anti-Homosexuality Bill. ...

Bishop Akanjuna of Kigezi is well qualified for his ministry

By Muniini K. MuleraUgandaApril 17, 20230 comments

#Akanjuna #Bishop #Kigezi #overseer #COU #ChurchofUganda #Paul

Another episode of conflict is brewing in Kigezi Diocese of the Church of Uganda. Through his lawyer, Mr. Nelson Habasa, a member of the Church, wrote to the Provincial Secretary of the Church of Uganda, on March 31, 2023, to demand that a Provincial Tribunal be constituted to hear ...

Homosexuality: a medical doctor’s perspective

By Muniini K. MuleraUgandaApril 10, 20230 comments

#homosexuality #LGBTQ #gender #sexuality #Uganda

The conversation about human sexuality, including homosexuality, suffers from oversimplification. One understands the difficulty many people have with calls for sober consideration of this complex subject. I was once in their shoes. My upbringing as an African heterosexual male, and ...

Homosexuality in Africa: A Christian's perspective

By Muniini K. MuleraUgandaApril 4, 20231 comments

#Homosexuality #LGBT #Uganda

The Golden Rule: Matthew 7:12 (ESV) ******* I had hesitated to make public comment on homosexuality and Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill because the polarised positions taken, complete with abusive language, may not allow room for sober consideration of this complex subject. However, ...

Address delays of accessing safe childbirth in Uganda to save mothers

By Muniini K. MuleraFebruary 7, 20230 comments

#MMR #maternal #mortality #morbidity #Uganda

There is a preventable tragedy that hardly engages sustained public interest. The Monitor newspaper, among others, has faithfully reported stories of women who have had bad experiences in labour, some of whom have died. Such news quickly disappears, unless the victim ...

Death in traffic crashes not God’s will

By Muniini K. MuleraJanuary 9, 20230 comments

#Bus #crash #Kamdini #Uganda #deaths

Photo: After the bus crashed in Kamudini, Oyam, Lango. © The Monitor Reckless drivers continue to take precious lives. News just came in that a speeding driver killed 21 of his passengers, and seriously injured 49 others, when he overturned his bus on Saturday ...

Mugambas killed by a human being, not a motor vehicle

By Muniini K. MuleraJanuary 3, 20230 comments

#Mugamba #Ulrich #Elli #Tara #Kamurasi #Winyi #Uganda #roads

Extremely horrifying. Suddenly, violently, the Mugambas – Ulrich Kamurasi, and his first cousins Elli Winyi and Tara Byanjeru- killed by a reckless driver on Friday December 30, 2022. Precious lives of beautiful, innocent young adults, very much in the mid-morning of their ...

Dr. Edith Nakku-Joloba: an excellent choice as President of UMA

By Muniini K. MuleraDecember 19, 20220 comments

#Edith #NakkuJoloba #UMA #Uganda #Medical #Association #Makerere #Mulago

The election of Dr. Edith Nakku-Joloba on Sunday December 18 as the new president of Uganda Medical Association (UMA) is excellent news. It restores the 58-year-old organization to a path its founders and sustainers envisaged, namely, a robust organization that promotes and maintains ...

Doctors’ apathy and Uganda Medical Association’s problems

By Muniini K. MuleraDecember 12, 20220 comments

#Uganda #Medical #Association #Ruskin #Cook #Odonga #Kasirye #Senbeguya #Semambo #Mwesigye #Mungherera #KibukaMusoke #Billington #UMA #BMA #Oleo

Photo: Prof. Alexander Mwa Odonga MB ChB, FRCS, LMS (EA), Dip. Med. (EA), President of the BMA (Uganda Branch) 1964, President of the Association of Surgeons of East Africa 1971-1972, Dean of Makerere Medical School, 1975-1977. ********************* Dr. Samuel Odongo Oledo, who knelt ...

Dr. Samuel Oledo has disqualified himself from leadership of Uganda’s doctors

By Muniini K. MuleraDecember 5, 20220 comments

#Uganda #Medical #Association #UMA #Oledo

The current president of the Uganda Medical Association (UMA) has brought great shame and embarrassment to the profession of medicine. While speaking at the Patriotism for Youth and Investment Symposium at Kololo Independence Grounds on Saturday December 3, Dr. Samuel Odongo Oledo, ...

Inherited land wrangles in Uganda: a reality check

By Muniini K. MuleraNovember 29, 20220 comments

#Land #Uganda #inheritance #wrangles

There is nothing new about inter-personal land wrangles in Uganda. Growing up in Kigyezi in the 1960s, stories of fights over plot boundaries, land ownership, and land inheritance were part of our informal education. In those days, Kigyezi and Bugisu were leading theatres of homicides ...

Paul Ssemogerere’s epitaph: A rebel with hope and perseverance

By Muniini K. MuleraNovember 22, 20220 comments

#Ssemogerere #DP #Obote #Museveni #Okello #Lutwa #Uganda

Paul Kawanga Ssemogerere was a rebel. The soft, smiling type, with an easily underestimated resolve. The under-appreciated hero because his conquests did not include blood and human corpses. There was a time when I did not appreciate Ssemogerere’s politics. Why, ...

Is Museveni stepping down in 2026?

By Muniini K. MuleraNovember 14, 20220 comments

#Museveni #Muhoozi #Kainerugaba #Uganda

Many Ugandan political commentators appear to be convinced that the “presidential succession” game is already in play. Muhoozi Kainerugaba, son of Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, has been anointed the leading candidate. Numerous people, at home and abroad, are falling over each ...

No American, Briton or Ugandan is indispensable

By Muniini K. MuleraOctober 24, 20220 comments

#Uganda #Britain #United #Kingdom #USA #America #Trump #Sunak #Obama #FDR #Roosevelt #Kennedy #Churchill #Atlee #Macmillan #Reagan #Thatcher

British politics is in crisis. Prime Minister Boris Johnson resigned in disgrace on July 7. His successor, Prime Minister Elizabeth Truss, who took office on September 6, resigned in disgrace on October 20. The fall of the two prime ministers dented Britain’s reputation for ...