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  And it’s unlike anything NASA has done   COMMENT | RICHARD DE GRIJS | How do you explore a place where the sun never shines? China’s space programme will soon embark on one of the most innovative lunar exploration missions in recent years. We’ve known for nearly two decades that …

#   COMMENT | HUMPHREY NABIMANYA | It would be interesting if someone conducted research to establish what makes young people respond so strongly to popular youth figures. Is it their age, their personality, their status? There are several examples that justify this case. The current example is the late …

  NEWS ANALYSIS | THE INDEPENDENT |  On 20th August last month, the world marked a discovery that changed the course of public health. In 1897, the British physician Sir Ronald Ross, working in India, proved that female Anopheles mosquitoes transmit the parasite that causes malaria in humans. It was …

  However, the groups differ in how they think about the technology   COMMENT | SARA HARMOUCH | Artificial intelligence may not create a new kind of terrorism, but it makes existing tactics cheaper, faster and easier. That is the central argument of a July 2026 report from the U.S.-based think …

      COMMENT | OBED K. KATUREEBE |   Sometime in 2015, while travelling with my former boss and now the Member of Parliament representing Older Persons of Eastern Uganda,  Ofwono Opondo, he read my mind in a way that was so revealing. We were on a trip to Arua …

COMMENT | AGNES AISTLEITNER | For the past two years, much of the global conversation around artificial intelligence (AI) has focused on massive, centralised platforms and powerful tools capable of answering questions within closed ecosystems. Yet, standing in the auditorium at Strathmore University during ClawCon Nairobi, surrounded by more than …

  Reflections on King Oyo’s Death and Tooro’s Lowest Life Expectancy   COMMENT | NNANDA KIZITO SSERUWAGI |  On the night of August 27, 2026, social media broke news of the death of Omukama Oyo Nyimba Kabamba Iguru Rukidi IV, the King of Tooro, at a hospital in the United States. …

  COMMENT | CRISPIN KAHERU |  By the time President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni took oath of office on 29 January 1986, the young guerrilla had already made his most consequential political decision. He would not govern alone. Of the forty-eight ministers he swore in during those first weeks, nearly half came …

  SPECIAL REPORT | ANTHONY NATIF | As recorded in court, in the case Uganda Vs Molly Katanga and adapted from @TonyNatif on X. **** If you’ve followed this case long enough, you’ll know that the state previously successfully blocked the defense’s application for the court to visit the scene of …

  SPECIAL REPORT | ANTHONY NATIF | As recorded in court, in the case Uganda Vs Molly Katanga and adapted from @TonyNatif on X. **** Yesterday, before Her Lordship Rosette Comfort Kania, we had what one can playfully call an anti-climactic moment: “Call Log-Gate”. You might recall that in July when …