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Sep 20, 2024 | 
theelephant.info | Mary Serumaga
Log into your member account to listen to this article. Not a member? Join the herd. Years ago, I was much taken by a story, The Wave by Francisco Goldman, about the journey halfway around the world of the wave that he so tragically encountered in Oaxaca, on the Pacific coast of Mexico.
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Jul 16, 2024 | 
theelephant.info | Mary Serumaga
Log into your member account to listen to this article. Not a member? Join the herd. In looking for solutions to the cost-of-living crisis in Kenya and Uganda it may be helpful to look for patterns in governance that give rise to these perennial crises. The major similarity between the two countries is that both are undergoing another cycle of structural adjustment. It may be that Kenya and Uganda differ in their capacities to implement reforms.
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Jan 10, 2024 | 
theelephant.info | Mary Serumaga
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Nov 29, 2023 | 
africanarguments.org | Mary Serumaga |Kris Berwouts |On Darfur |Aly Verjee
“Zionism will fail, the experiment to which the noble Earl referred will fail, the harm done by dumping down an alien population upon an Arab country – Arab all around in the hinterland – may never be remedied…what we have done is, by concessions, not to the Jewish people but to a Zionist extreme section, to start a running sore in the East, and no one can tell how far that sore will extend.”– British Government, Hansard, House of Lords, 21 June 1922, p.
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Aug 27, 2023 | 
monitor.co.ug | Mary Serumaga
The news of the World Bank’s intention to shut off lending to Uganda unless Parliament repeals the Anti-Homosexuality Act has triggered unexpected reactions. For a number of years, Ugandan activists have been calling on the World Bank to do just that, freeze credit on the grounds of the current regimes’ political repression, State brutality and an ever-decreasing political space.
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Jun 11, 2023 | 
monitor.co.ug | Mary Serumaga
PrimeWhat you need to know:Although income per capita increased from $936 in FY2020/2021 to $1,052 in FY2021/22, what $1,000 a year means was not discussed. There was plenty that was predictable in the State-of-the-Nation Address (SONA) for 2023/24. Chiefly, a performance review claiming economic recovery from Covid resulting from government interventions. In the year ended December 2022, 60 percent of households increased their incomes.
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May 23, 2023 | 
monitor.co.ug | Mary Serumaga
As the inevitable 2026 elections or an earlier unscheduled change in leadership draw near, debate about the transition from the current regime to the next is becoming more frequent without becoming more enlightening. Because the incumbent president personifies, embodies, drives and is the regime, the country has been dragged into the mind-numbing household politics of the Museveni clan.
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May 23, 2023 | 
htsyndication.com | Mary Serumaga
Posted On: 2023-05-23 Posted By: Mary Serumaga Business & Finance Health & Lifestyle National Education Employment Technology Politics Daily Monitor Newspapers Uganda, May 23 -- As the inevitable 2026 elections or an earlier unscheduled change in leadership draw near, debate about the transition from the current regime to the next is becoming more frequent without becoming more enlightening. Because the incumbent president personifies, embodies, drives and is the regime, the country has been...
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Mar 7, 2023 | 
monitor.co.ug | Mary Serumaga
Given the frequency of strikes and rumours of strikes by Ugandan doctors, nurses and other medical workers, it would be safe to say industrial action is part of the health service delivery cycle. Industrial action by medical Industrial action by medical workers dates back to between the 1990s - 2009 when there were various annual strikes (Bergman L.P., 2014). 1996 saw the first nationwide doctors’ strike after which the Uganda Medical Workers’ Union as formed.
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Mar 7, 2023 | 
htsyndication.com | Mary Serumaga
Uganda, March 7 -- Given the frequency of strikes and rumours of strikes by Ugandan doctors, nurses and other medical workers, it would be safe to say industrial action is part of the health service delivery cycle. Industrial action by medical Industrial action by medical workers dates back to between the 1990s - 2009 when there were various annual strikes (Bergman L.P., 2014). 1996 saw the first nationwide doctors' strike after which the Uganda Medical Workers' Union as formed.
