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Let Council support, not undermine, medical schools by not declaring their graduates  `half-baked’ COMMENT | PETER NYANZI | Officials of the Uganda Medical and Dental Practitioners Council are bitter over a recent High Court ruling that ordered them to recognise medical graduates of King Caesar University and deploy them for internship …

COMMENT | CINDY RUGUNDA & DOROTHY K MUSIMENTA |  As the world commemorates the International Day of Education January 24th, a sobering reality lurks beneath the celebratory surface. While schools welcome students back for a new term, thousands of children with severe intellectual disabilities remain isolated, their learning needs unmet …

Consider how the world has divided into rigid camps as the Gaza catastrophe has unfolded COMMENT | MICHAEL IGNATIEFF | Seventy-five years ago this week, United Nations member states meeting in Paris adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It was not a binding law, only a statement of principle. But …

It would ensure security, work towards reconstruction and to lay the foundations for stability and development COMMENT | JULIEN TOURREILLE | The massacre perpetrated against Israel by Hamas on Oct. 7 opened a new chapter in the tragedy that is the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. For more than 75 years, too many opportunities …

The Hitlerization of Benjamin Netanyahu and the Nazification of his Likud-led coalition government THE LAST WORD | Andrew M. Mwenda |  After years of frustration, I am finally proud of South Africa. It has restored my faith in the goodness of “man.” It has acquired a soft spot in my heart by doing …

COMMENT | JAPHET ARITHO | As we step into the new year, it’s imperative to reflect on the lessons learned from the past month, a period marked by joyous celebrations but also overshadowed by the grim reality of road accidents in Uganda. The festive season of December 2023, much like …

  COMMENT | IAN BURUMA |  Claudine Gay, Harvard University’s first Black female president, was forced to resign after weeks of pressure to step down. But everyone involved in the controversy that pushed her out looks bad. The ostensible reason for her ouster was sloppy academic writing – mostly the …

COMMENT | JEREMY ADELMAN | Following Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential election in 2016, many pundits predicted a worldwide breakdown of democracy, and some warned of civil war. But, aside from Africa’s Sahel region, military coups remain rare, and civil wars rarer still. Instead, democracies have tended to break …

COMMENT | SARAH NEWMAN | When the world leaders gathered in Dubai for the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28), the United Arab Emirates unveiled the world’s highest-capacity waste-to-energy (WTE) facility. The plant is designed to process two million metric tons of municipal waste annually, producing enough electricity to power 120,000 …

COMMENT | ROBERT SKIDELSKY |   A little over a year ago, the San Francisco-based OpenAI released its chatbot, ChatGPT, triggering an artificial-intelligence gold rush and reigniting the age-old debate about the effects of automation on human welfare. The fear of displacement by machines can be traced back to the nineteenth-century Industrial …