Opinion

 How Uganda’s road development and maintenance failures don’t make rational sense THE LAST WORD | Andrew M. Mwenda | President Yoweri Museveni complained recently about the bad state of our national trunk roads. He blamed “people” who have “caused this disastrous state of our roads” as not understanding the ideology …

  Sudan’s conflict hits home: Uganda’s role in supporting accountability as host to over 69,000 Sudanese refugees and asylum seekers COMMENT | HASSAN SHIRE | The conflict in Sudan is not only ongoing but intensifying across multiple fronts with warring parties and their allied militias accused of war crimes and crimes …

  COMMENT | MAHLET AYELE BEYECHA – CONNECT2AFRICA |   On the occasion of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s 49th birthday (August 15), Ethiopia’s leader finds himself as one of the most praised and criticized figures in contemporary Africa. Few African leaders in recent memory have risen to power—and governed—under such intense expectation, …

  Value retention is not just about contracts, it is about skills, jobs, and enterprise growth. More than 17,000 direct jobs have been created, alongside 39,567 indirect jobs. COMMENT | YUSUF MASABA | Uganda’s oil and gas story is often told through the lens of barrels, pipelines, and global energy …

COMMENT | Olivia Nalubwama | In 2013, a groundbreaking case made news in Japan when a court ordered a school to pay $1.8 million to the parents of four children who died in the 2011 tsunami triggered by a megaquake. Minutes after the powerful quake, the hilltop school sent the …

How international involvement in the affairs of these two countries has complicated internal conflict resolution THE LAST WORD | Andrew M. Mwenda | The DRC and Ukraine may be geographically and culturally apart but they share many similarities. DRC is the second largest country in Africa, after Algeria. Ukraine is the second largest …

  COMMENT | ADRIAN BUKENYA | Each year, Uganda produces over 700,000 graduates, yet only about 238,000 are absorbed into formal employment. According to the Uganda Bureau of Statistics, the graduate unemployment rate stands at 15.2 percent, the overall unemployment rate at 12.3 percent, and 50.9 percent of young people aged …

COMMENT | CONSTANCE KICONCO | One day, early in the morning, I got a call. She was crying. Her voice was low and shaky. “Connie, I need to meet you.” I asked gently, “What’s wrong? Can we talk now?” Her answer hit me: “No, we can’t talk on phone.” I told …

The boda boda industry has become a graveyard of broken dreams. It has become a place where Uganda dumps its educated, its ambitious, its hopeful COMMENT | CASSIANO OKUMU | In the busy streets of Tororo City, motorcycles zigzag through traffic like bees in panic. But behind the helmets and …

 How Hamas lured Israel into taking actions that have ruined the reputation of the Jewish state THE LAST WORD | Andrew M. Mwenda | Will Durant, an American philosopher, after writing eleven volumes of a book titled The Story of Civilization, was asked what lessons he had drawn from such an extensive study …