COMMENT | SHIRLEY BIRUNGI | The year has come to an end, but for our working people, the 2025 KPIs had them at chokeholds, and the hustle and bustle will spill over to 2026. So, colleague, close that laptop and enjoy it all before Janu-worry ends so that you start …
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Why the problem at our national career is not one of new business trying to find its way but of grossly incompetent management THE LAST WORD | ANDREW M. MWENDA | As the new year begins during the last two weeks of a presidential election, I feel it is necessary …
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As rising migration levels combine with chronic shortages and rising population levels to place further strain on health systems, African governments are responding with a coordinated, decade-long agenda to train, deploy, and retain health workers. SPECIAL REPORT | BIRD AGENCY | African governments have agreed on a 10-year agenda to …
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Mukono, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has pledged to fast-track alternative road networks around Kampala to ease traffic congestion while vowing to crack down on the theft and mismanagement of Parish Development Model (PDM) funds in Mukono District. Addressing a massive campaign rally at St. Joseph’s …
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Although diplomacy has long been at the forefront of Sino-American engagement, the rise of politically constrained coupled with new strains of nationalism in the US and China, has rendered it ineffective COMMENT | STEPHEN S. ROACH | With the United States in the hands of an unstable president, diplomacy …
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Uganda alone generated roughly US$5.21 billion, approximately 18.23 trillion shillings, from gold exports between Nov 2024 and Oct 2025 Cairo, Egypt | THE INDEPENDENT | Africa is moving to reclaim control over its gold resources as Afreximbank and Egypt’s central bank advance plans for a pan-African bullion institution aimed at …
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US President Donald Trump has made good on his threat to take military action against Nigeria to save Christians from a “genocide.” COMMENT | ADEKYE ADEBAJO | On the eve of America’s imperial invasion of the Philippines in 1899, the British poet and defender of empire Rudyard Kipling urged the United States …
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Buvuma, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni, the National Resistance Movement (NRM) presidential candidate, has made significant pledges for the development of Buvuma Island, including the establishment of a second constituency to better represent the district in Parliament. His remarks came during his campaign visit to the island …
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With rising government spending on space technologies, a continental Space Agency (AfSA) and increasing regional cooperation, Africa is betting on satellites to deliver affordable broadband, strengthen local industries, and accelerate its race to a digital future. SPECIAL REPORT | BIRD AGENCY | Africa is witnessing a sharp rise in regional satellite …
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COMMENT | NANCY QIAN | As geopolitical tensions rise, competition for the cutting-edge science and talent that underpins advanced technology has heated up. The United States, China, and other major powers now regard leadership in areas like AI, semiconductors, quantum technologies, and biotechnology as central to military capability, economic security, …
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