At the threshold where we stand, please I plead with you to say immediately bye to the past year 2009 and say with happiness welcome New Year 2010. As I encourage you to positively to do that, I know there are sorrows and challenges of failures for the past year 2009. But I am strongly persuaded that this is the time of serious resolves and that great opportunities will open for you and me.

Going to a local pub to play pool and to relax with a couple of friends is my cup of coffee. Its always interesting to go to a place where everyone knows your face or name, well so I think. Besides, I enjoy the comfort of being in a safe environment for that matter. In the midst of all the electrifying beats and the pulsating dances, the strong stench of beer and smoke, I just enjoy being in a small corner where usually a group of men gather to play pool.

Traditionally, both men and women, or boys and girls for that matter, fetch water. If we are to ask ourselves, is gender sensitivity about the head carrying vs hand carrying or pot vs jerry can?
A few weeks a ago, I was visiting my rural village and came across a young boy and girl coming from a well. The boy was carrying his 5 litre jerry can in his hands...

Kampala city, like any other African city, is a busy one with many business activities taking place. Early mornings as I get to work, I usually see the Uganda traffic police scuffling with the motorcyclists. Motorcycles have become a daily means of public transport for people rushing to work. Traffic Jam is the order of the city of Kampala.

“It is very frustrating to be in Zambia and remain a Zambian at a time such as this when corruption seems to be here to stay.” Heritage Party leader Brigadier General Godfrey Miyanda made this statement as he urged President Rupiah Banda and his cabinet to reject Vice-President George Kunda’s recommendation to pay about K5 billion to ministers and other Lusaka-based parliamentarians attending the National Constitution Conference (NCC).

President Jakaya Kikwete has declared malaria a national disaster. The disease kills 291 people in Tanzania every day. “This is the disease which kills more Tanzanians than any other,” said Kikwete on Saturday at the launching of a special campaign against Malaria in Dar es Salaam. He said the war against malaria was one which Tanzanians must fight and win.

If Africans saw themselves, or at least saw how they would like to be, in Nelson Mandela, the Jacob Zuma reflects who we really are. To accuse him is to lay blame on ourselves. Zuma is a mirror that reflects what we would be in his position. After all, has he not been invited to attend Nc’ wala ceremony in Zambia later this year? If he were not a reflection of us, what would he be coming to do at Nc’ wala ceremony?

Make use of time wisely while you still have good health and a chance to walk on this earth. Tomorrow is not ours.
 Always remember that each second that ticks away,you are reducing in mental and physical strength, so use your mental and physical strength wisely or you will regret it later in life.
Please don't waste time: it is irreversible and irreplaceable.


Women of Uganda Network with support from the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation ACP–EU (CTA), holds a bi-annual event called the Lango Forum on e-agriculture. This event is held twice times in a year in Apac District, Northern Uganda. This year the third Lango forum on e–agriculture will be held on the 18th February 2010.

The former Prime Minister of Britain, Neville Chamberlain, stated in 1937, “For any government deliberately to deny to their people what must be their plainest and simplest right (to live in peace and happiness without the nightmare of war) would be to betray their trust and call down upon their heads the condemnation of all mankind.” He further stated, “I do not believe that such a government anywhere exists among civilized peoples..."

The debate of 50%+1 currently before National Constitutional Conference (NCC) is one of the most regretful moments of this constitution making process. For my own part, I consider it as nothing less than a question of whether this nation shall have a constitution that begins with “We the people” or “We the government in power.” The magnitude of this subject demands that the commissioners quickly go back to the people they are representing

The 29th December 2009 marked 18 years of Zambia as Christian Nation. Unless the church is mobilised to appreciate that the declaration is meant to inspire and motivate Christians and to align them with God's mission to change their communities, the general populace will question the relevance and the credibility of the declaration. The President Rupiah Banda has challenged the church to unveil and explain clearly what

Following the recent earthquake that claimed thousands of people in Haiti, humanitarian organizations are seeking aid from several nations, organizations and individuals to save the victims of the earthquake. I think most governments in Africa lack the sense of unity and the positive impact it has. President Obama’s gesture should be a lesson to most nations. They should learn that one cannot achieve something in isolation.