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Amos Masaba Wekesa is a businessman, entrepreneur, and corporate executive in Uganda, who is the founder, proprietor, and managing director of Great Lakes Safaris Limited, a tour operating company, in the African Great Lakes region. His conglomerate of related tour businesses grosses an estimated US$8 million annually and employs more than 250 people.

In this episode, we discuss promoting Uganda's vast tourism potential, understanding tourism's economic impact, and developing local tourism infrastructure beyond the brochure.

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On this episode, we have a conversation with David FK.Mpanga - author of ''The Politics Of Common Sense.'' 

This is a book of time. It travels through Uganda’s past, the present, and the future, one article at a time. Mpanga's concern for Ugandans to take part in the affairs of their country is a huge part of the book. It is on this foundation that he builds the body of the book.

''Some things are not political statements; they just require common sense.'' The rhetorical question, as you turn the last pages of the book, is “What happened to our common sense?”

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This episode features fast-rising Ugandan artist Joshua Baraka. We probe what it's like to take the Ugandan sound to a global stage.

Joshua Baraka is a Ugandan singer-songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist who has become one of East Africa's most prominent new artists. He is known for his unique musical style, which blends Afrobeat, R&B, and dancehall, and for his breakout 2023 hit, "Nana". Baraka also writes and produces his own music and has collaborated with several other major African artists, such as Joeboy, Bien, and King Promise.

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Uganda's 14.3 million school population could massively benefit from a robust school feeding program. The food could be produced by community farmers and supplied and distributed locally. This is a model that WFP knows all too well, with their Karamoja feeds Karamoja program. 

In this special episode, we Grab A Coffee with the new WFP Country Director, Lauren Landis, and explore the possibilities of a national school feeding program.  

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Uganda's 14.3 million school population could massively benefit from a robust school feeding program. The food could be produced by community farmers and supplied and distributed locally. This is a model WFP knows all to well with their Karamoja feeds Karamoja program. 

In this special episode, we Grab A Coffee with the new WFP Country Director Lauren Landis and explore the possibilities of a national school feeding program.  

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The Ugandan electoral commission has nominated 8 candidates, all male, to run for the country's most coveted political position. The nominees, who include the incumbent Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, his rival Robert Kyagulanyi, former Army commander Mugisha Muntu and legacy parliamentarian Nathan Nandala Mafabi among others kick start a three month campaign period to convince 20 milllion voters of their credentials. 

But in a restrictive political environment that has been dominated by kidnaps, arrests and the use of money to campaign, the race seems to be all for the ruling party NRM to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. 

In this episode, Simon and Raymond discuss what platform the candidates are running on, the curious exclusion of female candidates, the readiness of the EC to conduct the polls and the political apathy that awaits the candidates. 

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Uganda’s budding democracy wil celebrate 30 years of the 1995 constitution this year. 

Under the 1995 constitution, Uganda has robustly grown its democratic credentials creating a bill of rights, representation for women, the rule of law and separation of powers. 

However, subsequent electoral periods have proven a challenge with increased political competition leading to clampdowns and declining civil and political rights. 

In this special episode of Grab A Coffee, held on the International day of democracy in conjunction with The EU and The Swedish embassy, Simon and Raymond probe the quality of press freedom that underlines Uganda's democracy

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Simon and Raymond discuss the Israeli escalation of conflict with the bombing of Qatar which happened a few meters from the Ugandan embassy. They alaos talk about the shooting down of Russian drones in Warsaw and the war in Ukraine. 

In the second half, they talk about the arrest of NUP leaders, the visit of the Aga Khan and what it means. 

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Uganda's ruling party, NRM has held it's Central Executive Committee (CEC) elections. CEC is the party's highest decision making organ. 

In this edition Simon and Raymond discuss the outcome of the elections and the quality of the new CEC. All incumbents subjected to an election in CEC were defeated and the party resolved to keep the Chairmanship and Vice Chairmanship unopposed. 

Will the new CEC deliver on NRM's ambition to drive a ten-fold growth strategy? Will it address the growing pains of the country from unemployment to infrastructure deficits? 

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