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COMMENT | JORDAN DDUNGU | Birthdays are days for one to feel special. Most of us consider them very important days. Like the sun rises and sets for just us on our days. General Muhoozi Kainerugaba’s birthday falls on the 24th of April and this day that he is supposed …

  COMMENT | ANA PALACIO – PROJECT SYNDICATE |  Perhaps no image better captures the shifting dynamics in the Middle East than that of Ali Shamkhani, the secretary of Iran’s security council, and Musaad bin Mohammed Al Aiban, Saudi Arabia’s minister of state, shaking hands in Beijing, with China’s top diplomat, …

One of the key benefits of the SAATM is that it will increase the number of flights and airlines operating in Uganda, thereby increasing competition and lowering prices for consumers SPECIAL FEATURE |  DEREK NSEKO  | The Single African Air Transport Market (SAATM) is a flagship project of the African Union, …

COMMENT | Alfred Geresom Musamali |  The trending of former journalist Agnes Nandutu on social media this month reminds me of the late 1970s coffee smuggling through Chepkube and Cheptais sokos (markets) on the eastern side of the Uganda-Kenya border in the East African Community (EAC) (See Google Map). The …

History will judge the former US secretary of state’s southern African interventions to be a failure COMMENT | Peter Vale | Senior Research Fellow, Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship and Visiting Professor of International Relations, Federal University of Santa Maria, Brazil, University of Pretoria Henry Kissinger, who sexed up the art …

Will its restrictive approach to China and subversion of the WTO leave the developing world behind? COMMENT | Dani Rodrik | Developing countries are increasingly worried that the United States will turn its back on the multilateral trade regime. Amid rising geopolitical tensions, policymakers in lower- and middle-income countries fear that a …

What will it take to discover and identify which viruses pose the greatest risks to humans? COMMENT | William A. Haseltine | Although COVID-19 restrictions are rapidly fading around the world, we are still reeling from the impact of the past three years. More than 6.8 million deaths from COVID-19 have been …

COMMENT | Samson Tinka | On 26th Nov 2020 at 08:08hours, I sent an email to Eng. Samuel Sserunkuma of KCCA complaining of the unmotorable road between Entebbe road at Kenjoy supermarket, through the valley crossing Salama road via Calendar Pub up to current Makindye traffic lights. Those days my children …

How African businesses can capitalise on transformational functions in a brave new world COMMENT | Vincent Maher | Africa faces a reckoning when it comes to its relationship with digital technology. Challenges related to infrastructure rollout and the high cost of data mean it’s difficult for enterprises and institutions to adopt new …

How Africa’s media covered Nigeria recent general elections and why it matters for the next coverage COMMENT | Azubuike Ishiekwene | Between February and March 2023, Nigerians went to the polls to elect a new President and parliament. This was the seventh national vote since Nigeria’s transition from military rule in 1999. …