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.
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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 hyperactive NRM ideologues referred to as “primitive accumulation”, the wretched of this country grow justifiably suspicious of literally everything.
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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 to examine the light Aung San Suu Kyi’s “recognition” by the international community throws on Uganda’s contemporary issues is necessary.
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 such operations in Liberia, South Sudan and Somalia, among a few others.
Their duties include other aspects such as monitoring the unintended consequences of holding elections or backing up popular consultations, human rights investigations, humanitarian relief and rebuilding state and physical infrastructures.