After acquiring MultiChoice, French media giant Canal+ is turning to AI to analyze viewing habits and recommend locally relevant films, series and sports. It is also lowering streaming costs, raising the stakes in Africa’s local content battle. SPECIAL REPORT | BIRD AGENCY | African streaming subscribers could soon …
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A new wave of reforms across Africa is setting the stage for significantly cheaper cross-border call rates, as regional blocs and national regulators move to cut mobile termination rates (MTRs) and roaming charges. SPECIAL REPORT | BIRD AGENCY | Cross-border traders and travellers across Africa are set to benefit …
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Inside Opposition leader’s plan to pressure Kampala from Washington NEWS ANALYSIS | IAN KATUSIIME | Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine, president of the National Unity Platform (NUP) and a presidential candidate in the 2026 elections, has entered a new phase of his political struggle: shifting the battleground from the …
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Some traditionalists in the Church of England and the wider global Anglican Communion continue to oppose the idea of women being priests at all London, UK | AGENCIES | The first female Archbishop of Canterbury said her teenage self “could never have imagined the future that lay ahead”, …
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Libreville, Gabon | THE INDEPENDENT | Edgar Mujuni, a Ugandan space systems engineer and emerging leader in Africa’s space sector, is one of eight set to get the 2026 Young African Space Professionals award next month. The awards are set for April 20th in Libreville, Gabon, at the NewSpace Africa Conference. …
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DAR ES SALAAM | Xinhua | The East African Community (EAC) is moving forward with a coordinated 10-year climate change strategy to address climate risks, strengthen resilience, and support sustainable economic transformation across the region, according to a statement released on Friday. Opening a four-day regional meeting, EAC Acting Director …
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OTTAWA | Xinhua | Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney announced Thursday that Canada has met NATO’s defense spending target of 2 percent of GDP, achieving the benchmark five years ahead of schedule. Carney said in a statement that for the past 10 months, his government has moved at “unprecedented speed …
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Pearl Bank backs efforts of Diocesan Education Inspectors to Access Remote Schools by Donating Motorbikes Mengo, Uganda | NEWS CORRESPONDENT | The Church of Uganda (COU) education directorate will now be able to send out school inspectors to remote areas across the country after they got a boost of …
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COMMENT | ANDREW PI BESI | For many years, citizens of our ancient continent and beyond have grappled with the question of national growth, or, as Adam Smith framed it, the “wealth of nations”. It was Smith who, exactly 250 years ago this March, offered the first systematic account of this …
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BEIJING | Xinhua | A light bulb is not something most people would associate with governance. Yet nearly four decades ago, while working in one of the poorest parts of east China’s Fujian Province as the Party chief of Ningde Prefecture, Xi Jinping told local officials that ensuring access to …
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The Independent Uganda: You get the Truth we Pay the Price
