On 26th February 2022, the president launched the parish development model (PDM) in Kibuku district. According to the government, the program aims to eradicate poverty at the grassroots level, and a whopping 490 billion shillings have been earmarked for the program, with every parish receiving seventeen million shillings out of the fund. The modus operandi of the program will include households saving and borrowing funds from the parish SACCOs which funds will then be used by the household to start up their preferred businesses or boost one that it already has. The program replaces the Emyooga

On 1st February 2022, the global head of Total Energies announced the Final Investment Decision (FID) on Uganda’s Tilenga and Kingfisher oil projects. This decision is a significant milestone in Uganda’s long pilgrimage to becoming an oil-producing country. To comprehend the magnitude of this breakthrough, we must look back to the starting point of this trek. Uganda’s oil potential was first brought to light by Edward James Wayland, a government geologist. He published his geological survey report titled “Petroleum in Uganda” in 1925,wherein he reported on the existence of large quantities of oil seepages in the Albertine

AIn the stained congestion of Katanga Kimwanyi zone, where small shanties are tussled for space with gutters as improvised paths and makeshift latrines forged from shallow holes, sticks, and sackcloth lives a chaotic neighbourhood. Here, amid crime, promiscuity and profanity uttering drunkards, Ms Tuhaise Rose Mary raises her family of six. Her family is more than complete, with three sons, two daughters, and one grandchild. The forty-two-year-old mother begins her day with a prayer invoking the Almighty to take the lead, a practice she has diligently instilled in her children. She then begins her daily hunt for those with

In July 2021, at the peak of the second COVID-19 wave and its subsequent total lockdown, president Museveni in one of his addresses promised that the government would provide relief to some selected groups of people who would be screened and then deemed fit to receive the help, to have the most vulnerable poor assisted, most especially those that had lost their livelihoods to the COVID19 lockdown. Chaos and confusion marred the first COVID lockdown relief, largely in the form of food items. There was a chain of mismanagement allegations, claims of poor quality food distributed to the recipients. Relief was also going to the homes of those not needy, and many other complaints continued rising from here and there. President Museveni’s announcement of the new COVID-19 relief in the form of cash and not food this time was thus largely welcome across the political divide, save for the debate that followed concerning the amount and eligibility criteria!

Relating the COVID-19 pandemic to food, faith, and politics may quite naturally appear to be a rather extraneous task for one to undertake, yet at the same time, the subject is a thought-provoking one requiring a fair degree of scrutiny, atleast—especially given the status quo in Uganda. This article, therefore, attempts to do just that. The unclouded truth is that the pandemic has affected and lasts to affect every sector of our economy.