He has over 30 years of experience working in the Public and Private sector, working within Health services Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Dr Charles Olaro has been appointed as the new Director General of Health Services at the Ministry of Health. President Yoweri Museveni announced that appointment on May …

COMMENT | SYLVIA MULINGE | Last week, I revisited Uganda’s National Broadband Policy of 2018—and what I found was a compelling vision still waiting to be fully realised. The policy aims high. It promises to make fast, affordable, and reliable internet access available to all Ugandans—urban and rural, rich and poor. …

Civilians caught in a devastating humanitarian crisis involving sexual and gender-based violence COMMENT | ANNIE BUNTING & HEATHER TASKER | In early 2025, the March 23 Movement (M23) armed group seized control of Goma and then Bukavu, two major cities in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). M23’s advance …

Africa’s film and audiovisual industry generates an estimated $5 billion annually and employs more than 5 million people ANALYSIS | THE INDEPENDENT | Africa’s multilateral lender, African Export-Import Bank, through its impact investment arm—the Fund for Export-Development in Africa (FEDA)—has announced a landmark $1 billion initiative to launch the Africa Film …

His election represents continuity with the papacy of the late Pope Francis, and he is expected to continue Francis’ reforms of the church as well as his focus on poverty and marginalized people. ANALYSIS | AGENCIES | Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost – now known as Pope Leo XIV — is the first pope from …

World Health Organisation is hoping to re-ignite momentum through policy and accountability on hand washing behaviour Kampala, Uganda | PATRICIA AKANKWATSA | In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, the message was drilled into public consciousness with rare global unity: wash your hands. From Kampala to Kansas, handwashing stations mushroomed …

He plans to end Gates Foundation in 20 years ANALYSIS | CLARE DUFFY | When Bill and Melinda French Gates created the Gates Foundation in 2000, they had planned for the organization to continue its work, using their remaining fortune, for several decades after they died. But now, the billionaire Microsoft …

Increase in lower-income countries could be as high as 4.1 per cent by 2050 ANALYSIS | DANN OKOTH | It is well known that poorer countries bear the biggest burden of resistance to antimicrobial drugs and that these countries are also most vulnerable to climate change. But little research has been …

Clean cooking campaigns have been largely successful in Asia and Latin America, but efforts in Africa have been unable to outpace population growth ANALYSIS | LAURA MILLAN | The Trump administration’s gutting of the US Agency for International Development, with 80% of its programs now canceled, is a blow for clean …

Two artists explore the concept of the natural world and humanity in a two man’s show with their vibrant and expressive paint brushes ART | DOMINIC MUWANGUZI | The natural world comes alive as one takes a tour of the exhibition Blossoming of Generation by two artists, Damulira Siraj Shira and …