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COMMENT | FEDERICO FUBINI | Although one might be hard-pressed to find similarities between the wars in Ukraine and Iran, Donald Trump’s April Fools’ Day speech from the White House has brought the parallel into sharper focus. To be sure, Ukraine is a democracy (however imperfect) aspiring to European integration, …

MORRISON RWAKAKAMBA | COMMENT | The ongoing Kyankwanzi retreat discussions have mostly focused on the prosperity of Ugandans. In consideration of the foregoing, the most vital document presented and discussed over and over again was “Uganda’s Tenfold Growth Strategy”. This document outlines a journey map that would take Uganda from a …

  COMMENT | OBED K KATUREEBE | President Yoweri Museveni recently sent the untiring Director General of the Internal Security Organisation (ISO), Arthur Mugyenyi, to sort out the long-standing land dispute between private tree planters and cattle herders in Nsoowe Central Forest Reserve, in Maddu Sub County, Gomba District. It is …

  COMMENT | MOHAMMED AL DHAHERI & RIKARD JALKEBRO | Diplomatic instinct suggests that, when conflicts intensify, parties should head to the negotiating table. That impulse might be rooted in genuine moral concern, but there are times when heeding it is dangerous. Now is just such a time: negotiations to …

Fresh concerns emerge following reported discrepancies at the 11th Inter-Secondary Schools Gala 2026 COMMENT | OSBORNE KINENE | The 11th annual Uganda Aquatic inter-secondary schools swimming gala was held 28th March, 2026, at the Greenhill Academy, Kibuli campus. The event, which is held annually and usually attracts participation from several secondary …

COMMENT | PROF. MYRIAN SIDIBE | Awards season this year was a celebration of Black creativity and cinema. Sinners made history with 16 Academy Award nominations. This is a film critics said would never land, which narrates an episode of Black history which had previously been diminished and, at some point, …

What should Africa’s trade strategy be as deadlock persists at the World Trade Organization?   COMMENT | JANE NALUNGA | The outcome of the 14th Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization in Yaoundé, Cameroon, which concluded on 30 March 2026, has once again laid bare the structural weaknesses of the multilateral …

  Understanding the true forces behind Uganda’s Human Rights Movement   COMMENT | NNANDA KIZITO SSERUWAGI | The American philosopher Eric Hoffer studied mass movements and penetrated them with such deep insights that he exposed their true nature in his 1951 work, The True Believer. We can trace similar psychological influences …

  COMMENT | ANDREW PI BESI |  Thursday, April 7th, 1994, remains one of the most vivid days of my time at Ntare School. Not because we fully understood what was unfolding, but because we sensed, almost instinctively, that something had shifted. The mood among some of our Banyarwanda classmates and …

COMMENT | NANTEZA SARAH KYOBE | I had never been to Lira, only passing through it on my way to other districts for assignments. I had only previously heard about Lira from a friend who runs a business there, who said it is a booming business district, especially in the …