Three months ago a letter supposedly authored by a little known member of opposition Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) Catherine Ddembe caused a buzz among Ugandans on social networks. " The letter detailed a plot to frame senior government officials in subversive activities. The letter also spoke of plans to kill key figures allegedly opposed to [...]

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Ugandan journalists and activists working outside Kampala face some of the worst threats and sometimes these threats go unreported. If the stories are reported, they generally don't receive the same hype as the arrests or mistreatment of those that are Kampala based. Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) working with security operatives have been at the center [...]

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A few weeks ago I spent a night in Addis Ababa -in transit to Accra because of a flight delay. Like on many other trips to the capital that hosts the African Union, you immediately feel that somehow Meles is not dead. Former Prime Minister's photos still greet you at the airport and on most [...]

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If you have been following Ugandan news in the last few days you couldn't have missed that photo of President Yoweri Museveni handing over $100,000 to a loose group of youth from Busoga. Twitter and Facebook are still having discussions on this #sackofmoney. The president was apparently fulfilling a promise he made during the 2011 [...]

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Uganda remained at the 110th position out of the 144 countries in the Global Information Technology Report 2013. The Networked Readiness Index, calculated by the World Economic Forum, and INSEAD, ranks 144 economies based on: their capacity to exploit the opportunities offered by the digital age. This capacity is determined by the quality of the [...]

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I have just read the anti Pornography Bill that is currently before our parliament. This Bill was brought soon after the MPs stifled debate on the Marriage and Divorce Bill, which millions of Ugandans need urgently in place. Lokodo's anti-pornography bill however doesn't just threaten women; it is attacking press freedom too. The media is [...]

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Last week I wrote about my feeling about the manner in which the debate on the Marriage and Divorce Bill was handled. I couldn't' write any better than Jacqueline Asiimwe, a lawyer who has been, for more than a decade, at the centre of the struggle for women's rights in Uganda. Here is her personal [...]

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Were they just an ignorant lot or was there a deliberate plan to stifle the debate and probable passing of Marriage and Divorce Bill by Members of Parliament? Why were they asked to carry out sham communities when consultations had already been done? What about the promised 5 million shillings for the consultations? Why did [...]

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Last week i was travelling through Eastern Uganda, Tororo and Mbale in particular. In Tororo i found three women supported by MIFUMI who assemble solar lamps. Rhoda Oketcho, Auma Odio and Magaret Opio took a six months course in Solar engineering in India in 2008. They are rural women without much education but with skills from India [...]

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Reblogged from Itsdelta's Blog: We used to have conversations in our final year of varsity when the thought of entering the job market weighed heavily on our minds and we worried about where to go from there. In some of those discussions the view was often expressed that the female graduates were at an advantage [...]

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