Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Post Bank Uganda has achieved a major milestone in its digital transformation journey by successfully implementing MTN Uganda’s Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) solution, enhancing operational efficiency, network security, and customer experience, executives said on April 16. The six-month Proof of Concept (POC), completed in …
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The execution of 15 Gaza medics and rescuers demonstrates just how normalised the dehumanisation of Palestinians is COMMENT | AHMED NAJAR | Fifteen members of the Palestine Red Crescent Society and Civil Defence were killed. Not fighters. Not militants. Not people hiding rockets or weapons. They were aid workers. Humanitarians. Medics …
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Africa and the world cannot afford to look away ANALYSIS | MELODY CHIRONDA | Two years ago, on April 15, war erupted in Sudan – a war that has since spiraled into one of the world’s most devastating humanitarian catastrophes. Yet, the suffering of the Sudanese people is being met with …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | MTN Uganda’s fintech arm, MTN Mobile Money Uganda Ltd has recorded a 23% increase in net profit to Shs 250.2 bn for the year ended 31 December 2024, underscoring the growing centrality of digital payments to Uganda’s economy. Revenue climbed 25.2% to Shs 981.9 bn …
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The public has been warned against interfering with financed digital assets since such acts constitute criminal offenses Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Makindye Chief Magistrate’s Court has sentenced a man to six months in prison after he pleaded guilty in a phone fraud case involving a pay go/credit …
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US President Donald Trump is threatening to impose yet more sanctions on Russia, in order to pressure President Vladimir Putin to accept a ceasefire deal in Ukraine COMMENT | NINA L. KHRUSHCHEVA | The US and Russian delegations that just met in Istanbul had made it clear that they were …
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How Shakespeare can help us shift from the accumulation of wealth, power and status to a search for our deeper purpose COMMENT | PAUL YACHNIN & LAURETTE DUBE | From greed for resources and money to technology run amok and a politics of domination, hatred and fear of others, our world …
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If Museveni went to the bush over rigged elections, then restoring a credible elections should have been his main goal COMMENT | MORRIS KOMAKECH | The most deceptive narrative for justifying the 1980-85 Luwero bush war was that then-president Milton Obote’s Uganda Peoples Congress (UPC) party rigged 1980 general elections. …
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Scientists raise alarm about new variants, urge national disease testing ANALYSIS | AGENCIES | Foreign aid cuts could result in a major outbreak of mpox across the African continent and beyond, with virus control measures already disrupted, public health experts warn. Mpox testing and monitoring efforts in hotspot areas like the …
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Study models how going electric could save lives Kampala, Uganda | GABRIEL OKELLO | In Uganda, motorcycles known as boda bodas are a key part of the transport system. The country has over 1.5 million boda bodas on the road, amounting to roughly 70% of all vehicles. Boda bodas are crucial in …
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The Independent Uganda: You get the Truth we Pay the Price
