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COMMENT | Daisy Ariho Kansiime | It’s a dull Monday morning. 7:30 a.m. sharp. The boardroom door swings open, and in walks Mr. Kato, the boss and personal human alarm clock, carrying a thick stack of printed agendas. Nothing screams “urgent” like murdered trees. He arrives with the energy of a motivational …

Achieving the continent’s vision will not be secured by policies alone, but by the purposeful engagement of its institutions COMMENT | PROF USHOTANEFE USEH | As the continent looks to Agenda 2063; the blueprint of the African Union (AU) for a prosperous, integrated and peaceful Africa, and the United Nations (UN) …

 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 …

    Government starts training Ugandans in packaging industry to improve product packaging. COMMENT | NANTEZA SARAH KYOBE | The government of Uganda’s initiative to offer training to Ugandans in the packaging sector represents a significant advancement. The initiative—long overdue given the present state of packaging of products—introduces the first packaging training …

The great threat to Israel’s survival is not the Arab nations, the Palestinians, or Iran, but the policies of its government COMMENT | JEFREY D. SACHS | Dear Mr. Minister, I write to you following your speech at the United Nations Security Council on August 5. I attended the session but …

  COMMENT | SHEILA AWORI | I have, with dismay, observed the rate at which Ugandans are losing faith in their local sports clubs and athletes and increasingly choosing to support regional or even international teams. A quick trip downtown will reveal more international sports jerseys on display than local …

  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, …

  On average, in 39 years, Museveni has built 161 km of tarmac roads per year, whereas, on the other hand, as earlier stated, in 68 years, colonialists built only 12 km of tarmac per year. This means Museveni has performed 13 times better than the British colonial administration, despite …

  COMMENT | DANI RODRIK | America’s critics have always depicted it as a selfish country that throws its weight around with little regard for others’ well-being. But President Donald Trump’s trade policies have been so misguided, erratic, and self-defeating as to make even the most cartoonish of such descriptions seem …