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Uganda’s Remittance Blues
Written by Mubatsi
African countries like Uganda are paying more attention to migrant workers’ remittances because this money has become another avenue for spurring domestic development. The reason for this attention is simple: “remittance flows directly impact on consumption, savings and investment“. As of 2007 Uganda was among the top 10 African remittance […]
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Mubatsi
Mubatsi is a Ugandan journalist who blogs on governance and human rights-based issues in his community with particular interest in environmental reporting. For four years, Mubatsi worked with The Independent, Uganda's most influential weekly policy analysis news magazine, as a reporter. He is currently a senior researcher at Made in Uganda TV, a television production company that produces Minibuzz show.
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Uganda’s oil discovery: Losers and Winners
Written by Mubatsi
Uganda will soon join the league of countries producing oil as the pumping of this natural resource begins in 4 years’ time. With about 1.8 billion untapped barrels of oil, Uganda is expected to join sub-Saharan Africa‘s major oil producers like Nigeria, Angola and Sudan. As such, Ugandans are waiting […]
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Setting the old against the young: the Uganda scenario
Written by Mubatsi
Competition for the few available jobs in Uganda is pushing the young and old to the wall. Pressure mounted by the young university graduates who seek jobs, recently made President Yoweri Museveni to call for reduction of the retirement age from 55 years to 50 in order to create job […]
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Uganda Celebrates Golden Independence; New Challenges Ahead
Written by Mubatsi
On 9th October Uganda marked 50 years of independence with pomp, colour, showcasing the country’s air power and a choreographic presentation of how far the country has moved and projection of the future. Becoming an independent state in 1962, Uganda has since had 9 heads of state with pioneer executive […]
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Uganda’s Quest for Peace and Joseph Kony
Written by Mubatsi
Is peace between individuals and societies possible, or is conflict simply a part of human nature? Does it differ from culture to culture, religion to religion, nation to nation? All human history is punctuated by conflict and endless struggle for peaceful coexistence. Even before the American Revolution in 1777 to […]
