COMMENT | XINHUA | As U.S. President Donald Trump is kicking off his state visit to China — the first by a U.S. president in almost nine years, the two countries face an opportunity to explore the building of a strategic, constructive and stable China-U.S. relationship. A review of bilateral …

COMMENT | PATRICK OYULU | Somewhere in Plymouth, England, Rolls-Royce dipped a Phantom into a swimming pool to celebrate 100 years of the Rolls-Royce Phantom. Not because the driver confused it for a landing site at Ggaba Beach. It was intentional. A luxury brand creating a moment. A story. A …

Kampala, Uganda | NEWS CORRESPONDENT | As President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni opened his seventh elective term with a renewed call for wealth creation and economic discipline, attention is increasingly turning to how traditional structures could be drawn into the government’s mobilisation strategy. Hours after the swearing-in ceremony at Kololo Ceremonial Grounds …

For decades, governments treated the online gambling industry like that one eccentric uncle who is kept in the corner, largely ignored, and sometimes whispered about with suspicion and disdain. Betting back in 2018 involved wading through the swamp of scam casinos and weak jurisdictions. Now, everything has changed. From the …

  COMMENT | NNANDA KIZITO SSERUWAGI | China–US relations are the most important bilateral relationship in the world. The two are the world’s leading economic and military powers. Both carry influence far and wide, across the geographical spread of this pale blue dot. You would imagine it must be in the …

    Kampala, Uganda | NEWS CORRESPONDENT | dfcu Bank, in partnership with Mulago National Referral Hospital and Mengo Hospital, at the weekend hosted the “Hope in Motion” Walk for Sickle Cell, bringing together hundreds of Ugandans in a united call for increased awareness, screening, blood donation and stronger support for …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  Ride Safe Uganda, together with a group of concerned bikers, has extended support to a boda boda rider who has been unable to work after suffering a serious road accident. The rider, a father of two and husband, has been down for some time …

  Uganda, Kenya and Rwanda have transparency laws, but corruption persists   NEWS ANALYSIS | PATRICIA AKANKWATSA | Uganda records some of the lowest levels of compliance with access to information requests in East Africa, highlighting a persistent gap between transparency laws and their enforcement across the region. Between 2018 …

Entebbe, Uganda | PHILLIP CORRY | The heat and tempo reached their peak on Saturday as the Stanbic Bank Match Play Challenge reached the quarterfinals in this pairs tournament. Last year’s runners-up Henry Nsubuga and Jonathan Lukyamuzi overcame Entebbe Club members Paul Nsereko and Patrick Mugisha Muntu 4 and 2 …

  What happens when mobile money fails, hospitals lose data, and the invisible infrastructure behind modern life suddenly stops working?   NEWS ANALYSIS | RONALD MUSOKE | What if, tomorrow morning in Kampala, your mobile phone stopped working – not because the battery died, not because you forgot to buy data, …