The Ugandan president recently leaned on his administration to approve what will arguably be the most expensive road in the world. According to The East African: In the letter, seen by The EastA...
https://kenopalo.com/2019/10/04/a-ugandan-cartoonists-take-on-the-countrys-relations-with-china/
This paper from LSE’s Rebecca Simson in African Affairs goes against a lot of my priors: The unfair distribution of public sector jobs is a common grievance in many societies, but arguably mor...
Regularized and predictable change of leadership is perhaps the most important indicator of political development. It doesn’t matter if such changes occur through popular elections (as in elect...
https://kenopalo.com/2018/02/26/xis-power-grab-in-china-is-a-big-deal/
This is from an interesting interview with the FT: During the interview, Mr Kagame says it matters little whether there are real physical differences between Hutus and Tutsis or whether these wer...
https://kenopalo.com/2017/08/28/rwandas-kagame-on-the-social-construction-of-ethnicity/
Bloomberg reports: Kenya is competing with Tanzania to build the pipeline from oilfields in Hoima, western Uganda. It would either traverse northern Kenya’s desert to a proposed port at Lamu, n...
As is the case in many electoral autocracies, Yoweri Museveni probably did not need to rig the just-concluded Ugandan presidential election. By most accounts it appears that he still has signifi...
https://kenopalo.com/2016/03/01/evidence-of-ballot-box-stuffing-in-ugandas-presidential-election/
Former Ugandan Prime Minister, Amama Mbabazi, is running for president. He hopes to challenge incumbent Gen. Yoweri Museveni in the ruling party’s primary ahead of elections next year. Museveni...
Here are the top posts in 2014 1. Corruption under apartheid South Africa: This post was top partly because of the 2014 South African elections. More on the legacies of apartheid era corruption a...
On January 15th 2014 President Yoweri Museveni finally admitted that Uganda People’s Defence Force troops are engaging in combat operations within South Sudan. Right after the political fallout...
https://kenopalo.com/2014/01/31/understanding-ugandas-military-adventurism-under-museveni/
This quote from The Independent says it all: ……. In 2010 Bushenyi district was split into five districts. In the 2009/10 financial year, the old Bushenyi had a budget of Shs 1.64 billion for ...
https://kenopalo.com/2013/07/30/the-cost-of-decentralization-in-uganda/