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The country’s per capita fear index has soared Friday April 23 2021 Summary People, as they grow less prosperous while a few indulge in what the historical hyperactive NRM ideologues referred to as “primitive accumulation”, the wretched of this country grow justifiably suspicious of literally everything. Advertisement Fear of the unknown coupled with uncertainty is fertile ground for multiple media speculation which contributes to a vicious “loop” connecting to superabundance of pathological suspicion. People, as they grow less prosperous while a few indulge in what the historical ...

Daily Monitor Monday March 15 2021 Involuntary under-employed due to the “new normal” imposed by the pandemic turned wolokoso [rumour] into a fine art in the name of “analysing” current affairs but the weirdness of some of the arguments makes appetising food for thought.  Since these are contagion days, Ugandans ought to know that the contagion of the example of Myanmar’s situation, five weeks after a coup d’état, is remote and irrelevant because it is self-similar, but analysing our own situation using the academic approach; going through it and distilling the facts out of it t...

Daily Monitor Monday February 08 2021 There’s hardly an election anywhere in the world where some kind of rigging isn’t a challenge.  My interaction with former regional peacekeeping force commanders, peace builders and high level post-election conflict mediators within the Intergovernmental Authority on Development  (Igad) and African Union frameworks enabled me to elicit activities that constitute election-related foul play.   Peacekeepers monitor and facilitate observance of ceasefire agreements. True, the Uganda People’s Defence Forces have been invited to participate in many of ...