Opinion

In the recent 3 months, Bunyoro has been challenged by appeals for cessations. In our history, we knew Bunyoro for annexing other territories. Well, the question is not whether we should discuss annexation or cessation of loyalty of greater Kibaale or Buliisa or the new looming Kiryandongo but asking ourselves what is causing this. For record purposes, never has Bunyoro …

You can’t fight city hall. And you really can’t fight the White House, Congress, Wall Street, Silicon Valley, and governments of various U.S. states and European countries — much less all of them combined. Or so one would conclude based on Akio Toyoda’s Jan. 26 announcement that he is leaving his post as chief executive of Japan’s Toyota Motor Corp., …

I have interacted with the Parish Development Model twice this month. One was during a Civil Society Organisations interaction with Hoima district Local Government and the other was when I was tasked by Uganda Human Rights Commission to engage youths on mindset change in Kikuube district. In both, I was spot on the mindset change as a key notion and …

There are two fundamental things in life; planning and reflection. These are critical to shaping how we all make decisions and repeat or learn from our mistakes. At the end of each year, people are persuaded to make annual resolutions, annual plans and refocus their organisations. Few do the same for their dear lives. For this reason, some people get …

Oil curse refers to a series of evils and contradictions which have tended to accompany any oil extraction and oil production venture, especially the less developed countries. These include mainly impoverishment and marginalisation of the local population in the production areas, the prevalence of high unemployment and crime rates, widespread and total environmental devastation and desertification features. The emergency of …

Uganda at 60 has registered tremendous steady progress in infrastructural development which include among others; the 49.56 kilometre Kampala-Entebbe Expressway, the Jinja Bridge (actually an iconic project in East and Central Africa). For us hailing from the oil-rich Bunyoro Sub region (currently common known as Mid-Albertine region) may not let the celebrations of infrastructural development diminish without mentioning the critical …

News from Europe that a vast windfarm is being demolished to make way for a new open-pit coal mine is the reprehensible double standard we in Africa have come to expect. As Europeans switch their coal-fired plants back on while still demanding fossil-fuel generation remains beyond the pale for Africans. It makes a mockery of Western commitments to climate targets …

Currently, there is an ongoing discussion regarding sustainable and renewable energy. Many people are beginning to understand that there are many sustainable methods of using energy while also protecting the environment. There are many popular misconceptions about renewable energy and what it means for our future. Any energy source that may be used more than once infinitely is generally referred …

Mid-Western Region Anti-Corruption Coalition (MIRAC), a civil society organisation with funding from Women Peace and Humanitarian Fund through UN WOMEN is implementing a two-year project titled: “Inclusive land conflict prevention and resolution” in Hoima district and Hoima City. Since the project inception in January, 2021, we have interacted with grass root women on issues of land and human rights. During …

My name is John Tereraho. Tereraho is a hopeless name, because my parents thought I was not going to make it in life. In Rufumbira and Rwanda dialect it means throw there. It is a name that carries no hope because my parents were pagans. They thought I was going to die because those who had come before had died …