Uneasy progress for Uganda women and girls’ health as Demographic Health Survey records a remarkable improvement COMMENT | JOY ASASIRA | As a women’s health and rights advocate, I could not hide my excitement when I learned that the maternal mortality ratio had declined from 336/100,000 live births in 2016 to 189/100,000 …
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Renewable energy must be the foundation to raise agricultural yields, end hunger, reverse environmental degradation COMMENT | KRISTINA SKIERTINA & AISHA MOHAMMED MUSSA | The fabric of our global food system is fraying under the strain of climate change and an ever-expanding population. To prevent it from unraveling, we must embrace …
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Why isn’t it copyrightable? ART | AGENCIES | More than 100 days into the writers‘ strike in Hollywood, fears were in August mounting over the possibility of studios deploying generative artificial intelligence to completely pen scripts. But intellectual property law has long said that copyrights are only granted to works created …
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Why the climate emergency requires serious democratic ideals to avoid it becoming a disaster COMMENT | JAN-WERNER MUELLER | This summer with its record temperatures, deadly floods, and raging wildfires, which in Canada alone destroyed the equivalent of all the trees in Germany might have felt like a final warning: without …
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How the Digital Revolution Is Transforming Currencies and Finance ART | ESWAR S. PRASAD | Are cryptocurrencies the next big investment, a fad, or a currency that will transform the economic and financial landscape? What are some of the advantages and shortcomings of digital currencies? Who will benefit from these new …
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The risk of animal-borne diseases is small, but real ANALYSIS | SARAH MCLEAN & ENZO PALOMBO | Our relationship with pets has changed drastically in recent decades. Many households have at least one pet. While owning a pet is linked to numerous mental and physical health benefits, our pets can also …
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World leaders say it is carbon pricing ANALYSIS | MELODY CHIRONDA | You cannot protect the environment unless you empower people, inform them, and help them understand that these resources are their own, that they must protect them – Wangari Maathai. Kenyan Nobel Laureate Prof. Wangari Maathai’s words ring true as …
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Can we get better at predicting earthquakes? ANALYSIS | MICHEL CAMPILLO & ROB VAN DER HILST | An earthquake measuring 6.2 rocked central Italy in the early hours of Aug. 24, leaving more than 200 dead and hundreds missing in the rubble of the disasters. Given the devastation earthquakes cause, seismologists …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Apple has confirmed its new iPhone will not feature its proprietary lightning charging port, after the EU forced the change, BCC reported on Sept.14. The tech giant said that the iPhone 15, unveiled at its annual event on Tuesday, would use a USB-C cable as …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Google has dismissed arguments that it is the world’s biggest search engine because of illegal practices, saying to switch to another company takes “literally four taps”, according to BBC’s news report for Sept.13. A lawyer for the company made the remarks in court in Washington …
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