It has the opportunity, tools, and experience to lift thousands out of extreme poverty globally COMMENT | ASIT K. BISWAS , KRIS HARTLEY | In September, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation released a status report tracking progress on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The data, which were meant to …
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A psychological explanation for those seeking to understand the apparent nexus of success and abuse COMMENT | RAJ PERSAUD ,PETER BRUGGEN | The Harvey Weinstein sexual assault scandal shows no sign of winding down. Just the opposite: police in the United Kingdom are now investigating several allegations involving the Oscar-winning …
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How enabling innovation could offer on lessons on how Crystal Pepsi could have been saved COMMENT | KYLE MURRAY | We tend to think that innovation is driven by new discoveries or advances in technology. Yet the problem with new products is often not an engineering challenge, but a psychological …
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The claim that proposed amendment is unconstitutional is peppered with misrepresentation COMMENT | Stuart Oramire | As an ardent reader of senior counsel and citizen, Peter Mulira’s articles, I keenly read the opinion he authored in the Daily Monitor newspaper of October 17, 2017 titled `Constitution should not be tampered with …
Read More »COMMENT: Promoting local industries
After reversing the deplorable state of the economy, the government needs to support local businesses COMMENT | Martin F. Kyeyune | Manufacturing existed in Africa before the colonial rule. Africa made a wide range of essential goods it consumed, including food (this involved food preservation), shelter (involved the use of timber, …
Read More »The tragedy of self-indulgence
THE LAST WORD | Andrew Mwenda | Diane Rwigara has been lionised by sections of the Western media and its cheerleaders in our region. She is the lady who announced her intention to run against President Paul Kagame in the August presidential election. Unfortunately for Rwanda but certainly fortunately for …
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How frustration with Museveni has led us to abandon reality and embrace demagoguery THE LAST WORD | Andrew M. Mwenda | October 20 | Last week, newly elected Member of Parliament for Kyadondo East, Robert Kyagulanyi, issued what he called a “Letter to Young Ugandans.” In it, he …
Read More »ECONOMY: Which way Uganda?
Taking stock of Uganda’s economy 55 years after independence Kampala, Uganda | COMMENT | SARAH LOGAN| October 9 marked 55 years since Uganda’s independence in 1962. The country’s economy has seen many changes during this time, affected by periods of political instability, civil war, fluctuating global commodity prices, and various …
Read More »COMMENT: To amend the constitution or not
Why recent discussions have been neither highly educational nor offered legitimate debate COMMENT | Bob A. Kasango | It is a few days after October 8 when we passed the 22nd Anniversary of the adoption of the third Constitution of the Republic of Uganda in the 55 years of our …
Read More »COMMENT: Museveni on Bobi Wine
To see young people oblivious of the issues but in leadership is not good for the country COMMENT | Yoweri Kaguta Museveni | Again, I congratulate our young friend, the Hon. Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine, for his recent election in Kyadondo North. I also notice that he is quite …
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