#Ofwono Opondo

In the soft drizzle that settled over Lions Park on Friday afternoon, an elderly woman wrapped in a bright gomesi watched the crowd swell around her. “These...

The Chief Justice Alphonse Owiny-Dollo has reportedly expressed concerns to President Yoweri Museveni regarding the behavior and statements of Government...

By Ofwono Opondo I have spent the last one week traveling through Northern Teso, comprising the districts of Katakwi, Amuria, Kapelebyong, Kalaki and northerly...

By Ofwono Opondo Uganda has now survived seven years since some European governments and the US slapped sanctions when the DGF through which they funneled...

By Ofwono Opondo Nigerians say, “No matter how hot your anger is, it cannot cook yams.” Cecilia Atim Barbara Ogwal, the estranged former Assistant Secretary...

By Ofwono Opondo Sixty-one years this week, Uganda appeared in a brief fanfare from British colonial rule under the 1962 federal constitution with an...

By Ofwono Opondo With 530 MPs, 82 ministers, and thousands of other personnel on public payroll but whose real contributions to the country’s progress cannot...

By Ofwono Opondo Saint Petersburg, formerly Petrograd, then Leningrad, our venue last week for the well-attended Second Russia-Africa Forum with at least 17...

By Ofwono Opondo Testing my body endurance, but also to quench my appetite to know places that I haven’t hitherto visited, [I] drove from Mulanda to...

By Ofwono Opondo One week into my annual leave in Mulanda away from the Kampala pollution, congestion, traffic nightmare, boda boda nuisance, and the irritant...

By Ofwono Opondo You have to pity the outgoing US Ambassador to Uganda Natalie E. Brown. Completely out of lock and step. Goodbye, Madam. This week the embassy...

By Ofwono Opondo Over the decades brave and committed Ugandans have made the leap of faith sometimes paying the ultimate price with their lives to liberate and...

By Ofwono Opondo National Resistance Movement (NRM) members of parliament are concluding a ten-day retreat at the National Leadership Institute (NALI),...

By Ofwono Opondo Shock, outrage, tragedy, the feelings of helplessness at the hands of personal armed guards and yet none cannot accurately describe murder...

By Ofwono Opondo The noose is gradually but surely tightening around the neck of several ministers and we sympathize. Mary Goretti Kitutu, Amos Lugolobi, and...

By Ofwono Opondo The political and legal reading now appears evidently on the wall, and some of the ministers prominently cited in the diversion, receipt and...

By Ofwono Opondo John Nagenda of One Man’s Week column is gone and with him, the flourish style. Nagenda died on March 4, 2023, aged 84, and as he...

By Ofwono Opondo The ongoing saber-rattling characterized by finger and tongue-wagging, and violent street protests led by Raila Odinga against what he calls...

By Ofwono Opondo News that China has brokered rapprochement between two Middle-East Arab rivals, Iran and Saudi Arabia hasn’t received much traction in the...

By Ofwono Opondo The unfolding sleaze arising from 450 pre-painted iron sheets, marked “Office of the Prime Minister; Not for Sale” meant for distribution to...