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 …
Read More »Conflict of interest in Uganda’s Civil Aviation: The duality of regulator and service provider
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 …
Read More »Eight years without my daughter
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 …
Read More »COMMENT: We should not overlook the comeback of local shows
COMMENT | DOREEN MIREMBE | Uganda’s film industry is experiencing a resurgence, marking a significant departure from years of watching neighboring countries’ industries thrive. Over the past five years, there has been a noticeable surge in the consumption and appreciation of locally produced TV shows and films. This new-found …
Read More »The carbon-offset market’s broken promises
The unregulated and opaque market that emerged as businesses buy emission offsets has major flaws COMMENT | MATEO ESTRADA | The recent Climate Week NYC, which convened corporate leaders, policymakers, scientists, and others to discuss climate solutions and drive progress toward decarbonisation, underscored how forests have become big business. The fast-growing …
Read More »We must down size Parliament
It’s illogical for Uganda with approximately 40m people to have a parliament as big as that of India with 1.4bn people COMMENT | MICHAEL ABONEKA | The conversations to reduce the size of Parliament are not new only that the talks do not come to fruition. Before I go further …
Read More »COMMENT: The Guyana-Venezuela border dispute and plight of African people in Guyana
COMMENT | MAJ GEN (Rtd) AUBREY RETEMYER | On October 22, this year, a friend was stopped from boarding a Kenya Airways flight to East Africa. He was told by the agents that unlike before, in order for a Guyanese passport holder to travel to the EAC, there were …
Read More »COMMENT: Why Bitature bailout is a sensible decision
It is risky for a country to depend on hydropower dams on a single river as the only source of power COMMENT | PETER NYANZI | Recent media reports that Government is considering to bailout business Patrick Bitature by acquiring Electromaxx, his thermal power generation company based in Tororo District in …
Read More »Let them drink oil
Oil companies’ extravagant and reckless behavior evokes parallels with France’s Ancien Régime COMMENT | DICKENS KAMUGISHA | As a long-time advocate for human and environmental rights, I am terrified by the unprecedented frequency of extreme weather events. With each passing day, it becomes increasingly evident that we are in the midst …
Read More »The British roots of Palestine conflict
They handed to the Jewish people land they confiscated from Palestinians and violently repressed their nationalism COMMENT | SAURAV SARKAR | Israeli flags are flying over all government buildings in the United Kingdom currently, but this isn’t the first time the former imperial hegemon has put its weight behind Zionism. In …
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