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COMMENT | ANA PALACIO | Last month, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced that the first official foreign visit of the commission in her second term would be to India. On the same day, Marco Rubio held his first bilateral meeting as US Secretary of State with India’s minister of external affairs, Subrahmanyam Jaishankar. …

  COMMENT | RICHARD K. SHERWIN |   US Vice President J.D. Vance recently declared that “judges aren’t allowed to control the executive’s legitimate power.” This shot, fired across the bow of the federal judiciary, threatens to disrupt a long-settled understanding that the courts should have the last word on what …

OPINION | Ernest Adoa |  The world has recently been fascinated with repurposing shipping containers into functional, stylish, and sustainable spaces. Glorious Container Conversion (U) Ltd is at the forefront of this movement, a company that has mastered the art of transforming these steel giants into homes, offices, pop-up shops, and …

  Why Africa should dump the dollar and the euro and develop her own currency for international trade THE LAST WORD | Andrew M. Mwenda | America’s weaponisation of the dollar to settle scores with rivals has opened the eyes of many countries about the risks of having one country print the global …

Kenya’s Prof Ogot was exceedingly knowledgeable, intellectually stimulating and entertaining and was susceptible to details based on empirical evidence. We nicknamed him “the mobile archives” OGOT TRIBUTE | BY PROF PONTIAN GODFREY OKOTH | When I learnt of Prof. B.A. Ogot’s demise on January 30, 2025, I was flabbergasted, not …

AVIATION DIGEST | JARED KALERA |  The airline business has always been a delicate and competitive affair worldwide. This is exemplified by the stiff competition that has of recent emerged for the Entebbe route, in the East African nation of Uganda. With the entry of seven new operators at Entebbe …

COMMENT | IAN BURUMA |  Compared to other Western democracies, the United States is still a profoundly religious country. Around 24% of Americans identify as evangelical Christians. Five US Supreme Court justices are conservative Catholics (the only other conservative on the bench, Neil Gorsuch, was raised and educated as a Catholic but is …

OPINION | OFWONO OPONDO |  Few, within NRM and government, will say or admit publicly even when they know, because, increasingly, they must look over their shoulders. But, the bad joke, delivered through dark humour, a few weeks ago, to ‘hang’ Kizza Besigye, at a tree in Gulu on Heroes …

COMMENT | Gertrude Kamya Othieno |  Following the release of the Amanya Mushega-led Education Policy Review Commission (EPRC) Report in February 2025, Uganda’s Minister of Education and Sports, Janet Museveni, hailed the recommendations as “game-changing”. The report, commissioned in 2021, proposes key reforms in education governance, language policy, vocational training, and assessment …

  How Donald Trump and Elon Musk are tearing America’s most insidious instrument of domination THE LAST WORD | Andrew M. Mwenda | The “reforms” to government spending by President Donald Trump and his newfound friend, Elon Musk, are the logical conclusion of the way “democracy” in America has evolved. America has, anyway, …