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Ring-fencing for incumbents kicks off storm among party cadres   Kampala, Uganda | IAN KATUSIIME | Ambrose Nampwera is a disgruntled aspirant of the East Africa Legislative Assembly (EALA). He was hoping to contest on the ticket of the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) when the party announced that it …

How family rule fails | THE INDEPENDENT | The Rajapaksas; one of Sri Lanka’s most powerful political families, were once revered as liberators. They initiated many urban development projects that pushed their country into the upper middle income status with per capita income of US$3,852 in 2019. Despite that, after …

Senegal and Mauritania have laid the groundwork to be front-runners in the mix to replace Russia to EU | NJ AYUK | Mauritania and Senegal have laid the groundwork necessary for BP, Kosmos, and their contractors to establish an offshore production complex, with development wells connected to a floating production …

  Finally becomes 7th partner State Kampala, Uganda | RONALD MUSOKE | On July 11, the Democratic Republic of Congo officially became the seventh member of the East African Community after depositing the ‘instrument of ratification’ with the East African Community Secretary General at the bloc’s headquarters in Arusha, Tanzania. …

Pfizer and BioNTech to test a candidate | THE INDEPENDENT | Pfizer and BioNTech announced a new clinical trial for universal COVID-19 vaccine candidates.They say the candidates will include T-cell enhancing shots and pan-coronavirus shots that “protect against the broader family of viruses and its mutations.” A key challenge for …

Some reason to cheer, but lots of work ahead | CHRIS CHANGWE NSHIMBI | The European Union (EU) has lived up to the primary reason it was created – ensuring that member states will not wage physical war against one another, but settle their differences amicably. It owes some of …

Artificial Intelligence helps translate over 200 African languages | THE INDEPENDENT | Meta (www.Facebook.com) announced on July 06 that it has built and open sourced ‘No Language Left Behind’ NLLB-200, a single AI model that is the first to translate across 200 different languages, including 55 African languages with state-of-the-art …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Experts have voiced contrasting views on how the Bank of Uganda is using its policies to control rising inflation. Many argue that the measures could hurt the economy more, at least in the short run. The Central Bank on Tuesday raised its base interest …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The government has proposed a penalty of life imprisonment for any person who sells or gets involved in any form of compensation for human organs, tissues, or cells. This is part of the Uganda Human Organ Donation and Transplant Bill, 2021 the Minister of Health, …

A look at the past (and future) of one of the 21st century’s most influential devices | ISMINI VASILEIOU | It is 15 years since Apple released what’s arguably its flagship device: the iPhone. A decade and a half later, there are few products that have managed to reach a …