Victoria Masika can hardly speak her mother tongue. If Victoria attempts to speak her parents’ native language she does so with an imperfect accent. “Many times I feel embarrassed when [...]
World over, women have always worked. But most of their work has been unrewarded. Yet, women too contribute to economic growth. In Uganda, women work as smallholder farmers, school teachers, [...]
Migrant workers’ remittances across the world are receiving special attention due to the increase in movement of people resulting from globalisation. The money sent home by the migrant workers is [...]
When Christine Lagarde, the head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), recently told the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, that climate change not debt or austerity is “the greatest [...]
In April last year, Daily Monitor, one of Uganda’s daily newspapers reported that the country was spending at least shillings 380 billion ($150 million) annually to treat top government officials [...]
In 2012, Uganda suffered two major hemorrhagic fever outbreaks. First the dread Ebola hemorrhagic fever hit the remote district of Kibaale in the western part of the country. As the [...]
Migrant workers’ remittances across the world are receiving special attention due to the increase in movement of people resulting from globalization. The money sent home by the migrant workers is [...]
Uganda will soon join the league of countries producing oil as the pumping of this natural resource begins in 4 years’ time. With about 1.8 billion untapped barrels of oil, [...]
Competition for the few available jobs in Uganda is pushing the young and old to the wall. Pressure mounted by the young university graduates who seek jobs, recently made President [...]
On 9th October Uganda marked 50 years of independence with pomp, colour, showcasing the country air power and a choreographic presentation of how far the country has moved and projection [...]
