Is Uganda a failing or a failed state?
Voices are
increasingly being heard that Uganda is a failing or failed state.
What is not in dispute is that Uganda is no longer a country of hope
but of despair. The economy which grew at 10 percent in the mid-1990s
has slid to an average of 6 percent below the minimum level of 7
percent required to meet the Millennium Development Goals by 2015.
Twenty percent of the population is reported to have got worse. Food
and nutrition insecurity, mental instability, violence, alcoholism
that has put Uganda in the world’s top ten, unemployment and crime,
human sacrifice, human rights violations, political instability,
massive brain drain, crumbling health and education systems,
corruption and environmental decay are all rising.
To give readers a
chance to draw their own conclusions we shall offer elements that
define a failing or failed state.