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The few clues to what caused it point to a problem from within | DAVID TUFFLEY | Suddenly and inexplicably, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger and Oculus services were gone. And it was no local disturbance. In a blog post, Downdetector.com, a major monitoring service for online outages, called it the …

‘It’s time to pursue them,’ says offshore tax expert Prof. Ronen Palan, a specialist in offshore tax havens and senior advisor to the Tax Justice Network Many of the world’s richest and most powerful people are in the spotlight once more for using secretive tax havens and corporate structures to …

Abdulrazak Gurnah is the first Black African writer to receive the Nobel prize in literature since Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka in 1986. | THE INDEPENDENT | The 2021 Nobel prize in Literature has been awarded to Zanzibar-born novelist, Abdulrazak Gurnah. He is the first writer from the semi-autonomous island in …

An analysis of the rationalising of gov’t agencies does not reveal the intended cost cutting NEW ANALYSIS | IAN KATUSIIME | The proposed merger of Uganda National Roads Authority (UNRA) with its mother ministry- Works and Transport hangs over the roads agency like the Sword of Damocles. After a three …

‘It should be turning point for Uganda and the world’ Kampala, Uganda | RONALD MUSOKE | When world leaders, scientists, business executives and activists converge in Glasgow this November for the latest round of climate change talks, the hope is that they will all speak with one voice and keep …

Finding a reason to live after losing a leg in car crash Every day 10 people on average die in road traffic crashes in Uganda, which is the highest in East Africa, according to police and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa’s Road Safety Performance Review report for Uganda …

  How Dubai, a city state ruled by an absolute monarch, challenges Western notions of rationalism and individual autonomy THE LAST WORD | ANDREW M. MWENDA | I spent the whole of this week in Dubai, the second richest emirate of the United Arab Emirates. It is a city-state that …

Expert reveals how it shaped 2021 election Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | There is a growing trend of domestic political actors deploying targeted disinformation schemes in several African countries; Uganda inclusive, according to Tessa Knight, a South Africa-based researcher with the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab). Knight …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | These are the top stories in this week’s THE INDEPENDENT. COVER STORY Power of social media: Expert reveals how it shaped 2021 election THE LAST WORD No one size fits all: How Dubai, a city state ruled by an absolute monarch, challenges Western notions of …

Could vitamin A help? Researchers at the University of East Anglia and James Paget University Hospital are launching a new project to see whether Vitamin A could help people regain their sense of smell after viral infections including COVID-19. Smell loss is a common symptom of COVID-19, but even before …