SAO PAULO | Xinhua | A 21-year-old woman died Saturday in Brazil after being released from a platform about 40 meters high during a rope-jump activity without a safety line attached, local authorities said. The incident occurred at the Ponte do Esqueleto bridge in Limeira, a city in southeastern …

  African governments are shifting carbon markets from fragmented project systems into state-controlled infrastructure that defines how environmental assets are measured, verified, and monetized.   SPECIAL REPORT | BIRD AGENCY | African governments are increasingly shifting from fragmented carbon projects to state-controlled systems that determine how environmental assets are measured, …

Kampala,Ugana | NEWS CORRESPONDENT |  Mercy Aujo, a Senior Six student at Code High School in Seeta Bajjo, has received sh1 million in school fees support under the Bona Basome Campaign, an initiative by DTB Uganda and Furaha Finserve Uganda aimed at helping learners stay in school despite growing financial pressures …

  African electricity systems are moving beyond state-owned utility models as governments increasingly rely on private capital to build new generation, storage, and grid infrastructure. This is creating more diversified power markets while redefining the role of utilities across the continent.   SPECIAL REPORT | BIRD AGENCY | African electricity …

BRUSSELS | Xinhua |  The European Union’s (EU) Migration and Asylum Pact took effect on Friday, marking one of the bloc’s most significant efforts to address the growing tension between migration pressures and governance capacity. The pact seeks to manage divisions among member states through a solidarity mechanism while preserving …

Why steady economic growth may no longer save Uganda from stagnation   COMMENT | NNANDA KIZITO SSERUWAGI | I have spent some good time recently ruminating about what is likely to be the future of our small economies in the age of Artificial Intelligence (AI). I have also worried about …

     COMMENT | WALTER AKENA | While growing up in the village, our grandmother always warned us never to sit at the doorway whenever it rained. According to her, sitting at the doorway while it rained was known to bring misfortune, including developing painful boils on the buttocks, commonly …

  Kampala, Uganda | NEWS CORRESPONDENT |  As the government intensifies implementation of its ATMS agenda – Agriculture, Tourism, Minerals and Science & Technology – with a strong emphasis on commercialising agriculture, Pearl Bank is increasingly emerging as one of the financial institutions helping translate that vision into reality. Agriculture …

  COMMENT | OBED K. KATUREEBE | It is now public information that the government of Uganda is going to deploy our medical experts to the DR Congo to combat the Ebola scourge that is devastating people in eastern DR Congo. According to Dr Daniel Kyabayinze, who is the Director of …

  Entebbe, Uganda | PHILLIP CORRY |  MTN Uganda are back to sponsoring the Uganda Professional Golfers Association, bringing back memories from 2006-2008 when they supported monthly mugs. MTN has unveiled a quarterly sponsorship for the professional golfers under their body, UPGA, at East Africa’s oldest golf facility, Entebbe Club. …