By Julius Barigaba Kampala, Feb 25 2010 World Food Programme and Uganda’s Ministry of Health have started a campaign that is meant to end chronic child hunger, which accounts for nearly 40% of the country’s stunted growths among children. A...

You want current info? Don’t visit official site By Julius Barigaba Kampala, February 12, 2010 The taxpayer in Uganda bleeds billions of shillings every month in order for a bunch of incompetent and thieving officials—ministers, bureaucrats and...

By Julius Barigaba Kampala, February 10 2010 Here is the future: nice tarmac roads, fancy homes lit with electricity and well lit streets to boot, but you lot will have to settle for the past, for now. This is the message that seems to come out of...

By Julius Barigaba Kampala, February 04 2010 Early last year, David Bahati, MP, got the support of government to initiate one of the most divisive laws in Uganda’s recent history—the Anti Homosexuality Bill, 2009. It has since put him and Uganda in...

Pressure from the international community is mounting on Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila to have Ugandan troops out of Congolese territory but Uganda will ignore this and push for more time, Foreign Affairs Minister Sam Kutesa...

By Julius Barigaba Kampala, Feb 27 2009 Wednesday morning’s inferno at Park Yard, a section of Kampala’s largest market Owino, means a number of things for Uganda’s poor folks who looked to it not just as a means to eke out a livelihood but...

Image By Julius Barigaba Kampala, Feb 25 2009 Fire this morning gutted Kampala’s largest market, St. Balikuddembe, burning to ashes property and merchandise worth billions of shillings. Police authorities are yet to put their finger on the exact...

By Julius Barigaba Kampala, Feb 20 2009 Karamoja, here comes God’s messenger; but what a job she has got on her hands! Close to one million hungry, starving people, battered by many years of unrelenting drought and languishing in disease, poverty...

By Julius Barigaba Kampala, Feb 18 2009 Construction of the Eldoret-Kampala oil pipeline is set to start in April this year after the government of Uganda recently completed the process of acquiring one square mile of land. The land, situated 15...