Uganda heads into the much-awaited general elections, starting with the Presidential and Parliamentary polls this Thursday, 15 January 2026. This will be Justice Simon Mugenyi Byabakama’s second national election since…
Every election season in Uganda blooms with promises of transformation. Candidates unfurl manifestos brimming with pledges to create jobs, industrialize, end poverty, and modernize agriculture. Yet beneath the familiar rhetoric lies a deeper question: Will any of these promises align with Uganda’s long-term growth blueprint? NDP IV and the 10×10 growth strategy Uganda’s newly unveiled Fourth National Development Plan (NDP IV), covering 2025/30, defines the economic direction for the next administration. It operationalizes the country’s 10×10 Growth Strategy, an ambitious framework designed to make the economy ten times larger by 2040. This plan, not the next manifesto, will determine whether…
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Markets in downtown Kampala remain lively, yet many traders quietly admit sales are slowing and loan costs are biting harder. It is the classic squeeze: weak consumer demand meeting tighter…
When the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) unveiled its 2026–2031 manifesto, attention quickly turned to its economic agenda. The party, one of Uganda’s largest opposition forces, is promising what it calls a “production-led” economic model, a shift from what it labels government’s “consumption-driven and debt-fueled” approach. In pages devoted to the economy, illustrated with charts and diagrammes, FDC sets out a plan for fiscal discipline, industrialisation, job creation, and equitable growth. Its core argument is that Uganda must reduce borrowing and imports, while boosting production, processing, and exports to achieve sustainable prosperity. The debt question Central to the manifesto is…
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In just a few hours, the expression of interest by the National Resistance Movement (NRM) party Members of Parliament, for the influential positions of Speaker and Deputy Speaker for the 11th Parliament shall close. According to guidelines issued by the party’s Electoral Commission on 18th May 2021, expressions of interest which started on Wednesday, 19th May 2021, will come to a close today, paving way for a closed NRM Central Executive Committee (CEC) meeting to sit to consider the names of those who will have expressed interest. The CEC meeting which sits tomorrow, Saturday 22nd May 2021, is expected to…
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This 02nd of May, I turned 40 years of age. It was planned to be a great celebration― four decades of life on this mother earth, but because of Covid-19, my birthday was a low-key ceremony, almost unnoticed. Fast-forward, this month, I became a grandfather for the first time― my first nephew, twenty-six year old Simon Singiza Mukama and his wife, Daphne gave birth to a bouncing baby girl- Ariana Singiza Nyakusinga at Kampala Hospital. In just about two days, the young couple was in and out of hospital. Naturally, as an excited 40-year old grandfather, I, and my wife…
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Trust: without it, youre just another bank The great Napoleon Bonaparte, once said that never interrupt your enemy when (s)he is making a mistake, but because we in the National Resistance Movement (NRM), do not view the opposition as enemies, I will this one time seek to correct and perhaps share a one or two tips about political marketing with my sister, Hon Betty Nambooze. First of all, I must say that Hon Nambooze is entitled to her own opinions about me and the freedom of speech that has been jealously defended and protected by the NRM government guarantees her…
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Four years into this term of office, the National Resistance Movement (NRM) Government is on course to achieve the targets it promised to the people of Uganda, Rt Hon. Dr. Ruhakana Rugunda, the Prime Minister has said. NRM is the ruling party in Uganda and is serving a third straight term since the return to multiparty politics in 2005. Tuesday 12th May 2020 marked four years since HE President Yoweri Museveni and his National Resistance Movement started a five-year mandate of leading the country following the 18th February 2016 General elections. Rugunda who on 15th May 2020 was launching the…
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Andrew Mwenda is one person who is loved and hated in equal Andrew Mwenda is one person who is loved and hated in equal measure. Everyone has a different view of Andrew Mwenda out there. But to you, who is Andrew Mwenda? How do you describe yourself? Why do you call yourself the old man of the clan? First of all you are right, Andrew Mwenda is the ‘Old Man of the Clan’. Why I call myself the Old Man of the Clan is an interesting one. I was my best friend, Bob Kasango’s best man in December 2000. The…
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The Author is a lawyer, Fred Muwema of M/s Muwema & Mugerwa Advocates The ever increasing presidential cash handouts also known as presidential handshakes are becoming a thought provoking ritual. Our President has a prerogative to render financial help from his well-nourished State House budget on donations, however it is concerning that the boundaries of this prerogative might be going beyond the limits of the cosmos. And it doesn’t really matter whether it is the people chasing the presidency for handshakes or vice versa. The effect is the same since the devil is always in the detail. Without inquiring into…
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