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If you can’t measure it, you can’t deliver it or ensure evidence-based public decision-making COMMENT | CHRISTOPHER KANAKULYA | As Uganda enters the implementation phase of the National Development Plan IV for FY2025/26–2029/30, Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) stands at the centre serving as the central pillar that transforms ambitions into …

I have never really been lured to participate in the voting process because of the idea that other Ugandans will do it COMMENT | MARTHA KYOSIMIRE | “Let each citizen remember at the moment he is offering his vote that he is executing one of the most solemn trusts in …

How it is intriguing that Museveni’s campaign has not sought to use new information weapons effectively THE LAST WORD |  ANDREW M. MWENDA | Look at social media, where most Ugandans have migrated to for information about campaigns. Both campaigns, President Yoweri Museveni and his NRM and Robert Kyagulanyi, aka Bobi …

Explaining the Ugandan Opposition’s Weak Anti-Musevenism COMMENT | NNANDA KIZITO SSERUWAGI | Many members of Uganda’s opposition have made profitable careers from opposing President Yoweri Museveni on almost everything, rather than standing for any ideals distinctly identifiable with themselves. It is obvious what they stand against (or claim to stand against), …

Why safeguarding personal data isn’t just good ethics — it’s smart business COMMENT | RUTH KAGABANE | At Absa Bank Uganda’s recent Data Privacy Workshop, held in collaboration with representatives from the Bank of Uganda, the Personal Data Protection Office, and industry players across finance, fintech, and insurance, one message …

  COMMENT | ANDREW PI BESI | In 1974, the Congo’s grand dictator completed his “Africanisation” of the Congo by renaming it Zaire. He discarded his birth name and crowned himself Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Ngbendu Wa Za Banga — “the invincible warrior cock who leaves no chick intact.” To prove …

  Navigating the Terrain of Conditional Funding, Transparency, and Information Asymmetry in the UN Development System The United Nations (UN) Development System is at the forefront of addressing the world’s most pressing issues, such as poverty, inequality, and environmental degradation. Despite its ambitious goals, the system grapples with significant obstacles, …

  COMMENT | ANDREW PI BESI | I was fifteen when my father, in a fashion typical of him, bought my brothers and me a book with an oddly unsettling title: 1984. Except for my brother Peter, it lay untouched on our bookshelf for nearly two and a half months — …

COMMENT | OBED K KATUREEBE | Gen. Kahinda Otafiire, the Minister of Internal Affairs, must be deeply concerned by the recent events in Yumbe District, where members of the Muslim community reportedly attacked their fellow citizens of the Christian faith. Over the past few days, Muslims in Yumbe, led by the …

MOROCCO — A New Chapter for Africa’s Bridge Nation COMMENT | AMBASSADOR ZAKARIA EL GOUMIRI | As the Kingdom of Morocco marks a significant double milestone—half a century since the historic Green March of 1975 and some seven decades since its independence from the French and Spanish protectorates in 1956—the …