By Arnold Arinaitwe

The biggest opposition party in Parliament- the National Unity Platform (NUP) is on the verge of collapse as divisionism, blackmail, and infightings rock the Kamwokya-based radical political faction.

Three years after its formation, NUP headed by Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine entered the political space with a vigor that many thought would not extinguish. However, insiders say it is just a matter of time now that Kyagulanyi and his NUP party would go into extinction.

By Arnold Arinaitwe

It was September 09th 2022 that the Mityana Municipality MP Francis Zaake and his wife Bridget Namirembe tied the knot at St. Noah Mawaggali Cathedral, in Kiyinda-Mityana and later their reception at Gombolola grounds attended by dignitaries turned into a political stunt!

Politicians across the political divide in Uganda save for a few NRM members of parliament, dignitaries from Buganda kingdom attended Zaake’s wedding reception that has raised serious questions to the fate of political maturity in Uganda.

By Andrew Besi.
There are parts of this Kasese whose soils are sandy. I first noticed this on my first trip to Kasese some years ago. However, it is only on this trip that I noticed the true nature of these soils as a comrade and I took a stroll through Kasese town. We opted to take this stroll as a way to converse with the diverse groupings of people in Kasese town.

By Andrew Besi
This Eid afternoon finds me listening to Chopin’s beautiful Spring Waltz. It also finds me reading a most interesting series of tweets about H.E. president Museveni’s address to the nation at yesterday’s May Day celebrations at Kampala’s ceremonial grounds in the upscale Kololo suburb.

By Andrew Besi 
“Man is a political animal by nature, he is a scientist by chance or choice, he is a moralist because he is a man. The history of political thought is the history of the moral evaluation of political power.” –  Hans Joachim Morgenthau 

April has a habit of making itself an important month in the politics of our pearl as well as our continent. It was in 1979 that April saw the back of Idi Amin as he fled to Libya and then onwards to the embrace of the then Patriarch of the House of Saud in Jeddah.