Guest column

  The Promise of Africa’s Bio-economy  GUEST COLUMN | OUSMANE BADIANE & JOACHIM VON BRAUN – ALL AFRICA.COM | Africa feels the impacts of COVID-19, conflict, and climate change perhaps more than any other region in the world. The costs of food, fuel, and fertilizer have skyrocketed over the past …

COMMENT | Crispin Kaheru | The palpable danger of the pre-election atmosphere in any society mainly stems from a preference for politics over the substance of leadership. Sounds puzzling, doesn’t it? Experience will break it down. From past and recent elections, it is clear that more often than not, vote-hunters seek …

   Why every modern asset should be respected for its functionality and not merely its symbolism THE LAST WORD | ANDREW MWENDA | Whatever its critics say, capitalism remains the most consequential system (and ideology) of organising human affairs in history. Born in Western Europe, it has spread across the …

  COMMENT | TOM JOSEPH MUKASA | Following the full opening of our economy, one can now say, ‘the year started on a good note.’ But even better is the blessing of the Final Investment Decision (FID) by crucial players TotalEnergies, CNOOC, UNOC and TPDC in our oil and gas …

COMMENT | KATI MARTON  |    As a horrified world searches for a way to stop Russian President Vladimir Putin’s brutal war against Ukraine, there is one person who might be able to get through to the Kremlin’s dangerously isolated autocrat. Angela Merkel, until recently chancellor of Germany, held Putin to some …

COMMENT | Moses Baguma | When the National Resistance Movement (NRM) parliamentary caucus endorsed Anita Among for speakership on March 24 2022 , Andrew Mwenda, a very influential, articulate and highly opinionated Ugandan journalist tweeted: “NRM has endorsed Anita Among, a former FDC politician, as its candidate for speaker. Jacob Oulanyah …

AVIATION DIGEST | JARED KALERA |  In my last article last month Preparing for Air travel, we talked about the initial preparatory steps for air travel. I now wind up with a second segment on the same subject – travel preparation. COVID pandemic Nothing has changed air travel like the COVID-19 …

AVIATION DIGEST | JARED KALERA |  The news from the aviation world has in the past two years been particularly depressing.  Almost every player globally has been crying, supposedly due to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the industry. Do not be fooled however. Losses in the airline business did …

The sanctions imposed so far on Russia do not yet threaten the survival of the Russian state. But President Vladimir Putin may regard a Western attempt to cut off the remainder of Russia’s international trade, especially in energy, as an existential threat. COMMENT | ROBERT SKIDELSKY | The West has …

Over 16 sectors have by law been ring-fenced for local companies. Transport, security, foods, beverages, hotel management and catering, human resource management, office supplies, fuel supplies, land surveying, clearing and forwarding, locally available construction materials and civil works COMMENT | ABDUL KIBUUKA | Sixteen years since commercially viable oil deposits …