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New drivers continue to join platforms even as fares were slashed starting in 2016 COMMENT | JULIE ZOLLMANN | Many argue that gig work involves exploitation, as research and media coverage have highlighted. But that doesn’t seem to deter ride hailing drivers on platforms like Uber and Bolt. In Kenya, in …

Ukraine has just demonstrated, in spectacular fashion, that a small but determined and innovative country can deploy cheap, scalable, and decentralized technology to challenge a much larger, conventionally superior foe. COMMENT | IAN BREMMER | On June 1, Ukraine conducted one of the most extraordinary asymmetric operations in modern military history. …

Why the US president’s visa restrictions and aid cuts are good for the development of our continent THE LAST WORD | Andrew M. Mwenda |  Many people are angry with President Donald Trump for canceling the visas of many students studying in the USA. This is bad for individual families and students. I …

INTERVIEW | Big tech sharing economy platforms like Airbnb and Uber are marketed as trustworthy, but a new book by a South African media scholar argues that they are highly vulnerable to scammers who spread delusive speech (a form of disinformation, designed to deceive by criminal intent). Julie Reid draws from …

How  deadly jihadists get themoney they need to survive COMMENT | EGODI UCHENDU & MUHAMMED SANI DANGUSAU | The West Africa–Sahel region has seen a proliferation of militant Islamist groups since the 1990s. One of the most vicious groups operating in the region is Jama ’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (Support Group …

Tesla CEO Elon Musk spent some $300 million on Donald Trump’s campaign, gaining unprecedented access to the Republican president’s administration. What does their public row mean for Musk’s empire? ANALYSIS | NIK MARTIN | How did Musk and Trump get so close? Once a vocal critic of Donald Trump during his …

  How this dynamic Ugandan combined a talent for sports with business, politics and entertainment THE LAST WORD | Andrew M. Mwenda |   Last week, Uganda lost one of its most dynamic citizens, Cedric Babu Ndilima, to a heart complication. On social media, opposition activists, who claim to be humane, went on …

African leaders must treat plastic pollution as an urgent public health crisis ANALYSIS | SOPHIE MASIKA & LORRAINE MUGAMBI-NYABOGA | Microplastics are all around us. In the air we breathe, the food we eat, the water we drink. Those tiny fragments of broken-down plastic waste, are now part of our everyday …

The genesis of this rather controversial opinion stems from the familiar stereotype on what is art from the lenses of the western art world. ART | DOMINIC MUWANGUZI | It may come as a big surprise that there is still a large section of western art patrons who perceive art from …

The company eyes to connect 225,000 new customers over the next eight months through its 100 service centers Kampala, Uganda | JULIUS BUSINGE | State-owned Uganda Electricity Distribution Company Limited (UEDCL) is investing Shs267.5 billion ($74 million) to refurbish electricity lines, install over 518 transformers, and construct new substations in a …