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Nairobi, Kenya | THE INDEPENDENT | Following Uganda’s decision to bypass Kenyan oil middlemen and import fuel directly into the country, leading Kenyan politician Raila Odinga has come out with a statement, that has several serious allegations, that is run in full below. ******* STATEMENT BY THE RT. HON. RAILA …

Both Arabs and Israelis must think carefully about what their policies and actions are likely to accomplish COMMENT | MUHANNAD ALAZZEH | The October 7 Hamas attack and Israel’s remorseless military response have once again revived a seemingly unending cycle of violence in the Middle East. As matters stand, there are …

Former Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) Commissioner Customs Dicksons C Kateshumbwa has taken to X (twitter) to weigh the options after President Yoweri Museveni pushed for the country to import fuel directly into the country and not going through Kenyan middlemen. Here is a summary of his thread, titled “Petroleum Supply …

If democracy was never the concern of neoliberals, the creed’s offspring aren’t ashamed to rule in its name COMMENT | JAMES LIVINGSTONE | Readers of The Economist and other such august publications have encountered report after report in recent years lamenting, celebrating, or coolly analysing the demise of neoliberalism. One might …

Concentration of wealth among a few Big Tech billionaires translates into political and is anathema to democracy  COMMENT | KAUSHIK BASU | In these tumultuous times, it often feels like one shock quickly eclipses another. Before one problem can be solved, another crisis emerges. Just a few weeks ago, the war …

It wants either an apartheid state or an ethnic cleansing process and both are crimes under international law COMMENT | VIJAY PRASHAD | On October 30, 2023, Israeli authorities said that they had killed “dozens” of Hamas fighters in the first days of their ground invasion. Meanwhile, Gaza’s Ministry of Health …

Lessons for the Israeli government from the mistakes the U.S. made after the Sept.11 terror attacks COMMENT | CHARLES A. KUPCHAN | In the wake of the atrocities committed by Hamas on October 7, Israel has every right and reason to pursue a sustained military campaign aimed at dismantling the terrorist …

Why the values that have shaped the West’s socioeconomic landscape appear to be in decline COMMENT | ROBERT SKIDELSKY | Reading this fall’s selection of new nonfiction books, one cannot help but recall W.B. Yeats’ prescient lines from The Second Coming: “The falcon cannot hear the falconer; things fall apart; the center …

COMMENT | SAMUEL MASEREKA AMIRALE |  In the complex realm of civil aviation, the intertwining roles of regulatory bodies and service providers can create significant conflicts of interest. When a Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) takes on the dual responsibility of regulating the industry while also operating as a service provider, the …

COMMENT | MARIJE SLIJKERMAN | Every 28th day of October confronts us, parents and brothers, with the deeply painful fact of our Sophia’s physical absence in our lives. Last week that day marked the eighth year of her disappearance in Uganda. It is very difficult to actually believe that eight years have …