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COMMENT | MAGALIE MASAMBA | Many African countries are already struggling with heavy debt burdens. Climate change is making this worse. Africa contributes the least to global emissions but suffers the most from extreme weather, rising temperatures and drought. These disasters affect not just people’s livelihoods but also national revenues, making …

  COMMENT | ADRIAN BUKENYA | Each year, Uganda produces over 700,000 graduates, yet only about 238,000 are absorbed into formal employment. According to the Uganda Bureau of Statistics, the graduate unemployment rate stands at 15.2 percent, the overall unemployment rate at 12.3 percent, and 50.9 percent of young people aged …

Why Dr Spire Ssentongo is both right and wrong on Airtel Money. COMMENT  | DAVID BIRUNGI |  We have all seen the campaign on his Twitter (X) handle. Dr Spire, an accountability crusader, uses his now huge following on social media to hold government, capitalism, and corporations to account for …

COMMENT | CONSTANCE KICONCO | One day, early in the morning, I got a call. She was crying. Her voice was low and shaky. “Connie, I need to meet you.” I asked gently, “What’s wrong? Can we talk now?” Her answer hit me: “No, we can’t talk on phone.” I told …

    SPECIAL FEATURE | MARIJE SLIJKERMAN  | On a Wednesday evening in 2015 our daughter and sister Sophia disappeared in Murchison Falls National Park. A medical student, she had come to Uganda to work as an intern in Lubaga Hospital in Kampala. After completing that eight-week internship, she went …

  In Uganda, recent data paint a troubling picture of mental health and suicide in Uganda. COMMENT | HUMPHREY NABIMANYA | As the world marks International Youth Day today under the theme “Local Youth Actions for the SDGs and Beyond,” it is important to remember that the aspirations of the 2030 …

The boda boda industry has become a graveyard of broken dreams. It has become a place where Uganda dumps its educated, its ambitious, its hopeful COMMENT | CASSIANO OKUMU | In the busy streets of Tororo City, motorcycles zigzag through traffic like bees in panic. But behind the helmets and …

 How Hamas lured Israel into taking actions that have ruined the reputation of the Jewish state THE LAST WORD | Andrew M. Mwenda | Will Durant, an American philosopher, after writing eleven volumes of a book titled The Story of Civilization, was asked what lessons he had drawn from such an extensive study …

Since returning to the White House, Donald Trump has slashed foreign aid and weaponized the United States’ economic power to bully long-standing allies, underscoring his administration’s abandonment of multilateralism COMMENT | Moreno Bertoldi and Marco Buti |  In a matter of months, both the international role and global standing of the …

OPINION | Ibrahim Senyonga | It is now evident that Uganda’s path to socio-economic transformation will not be driven by connectivity alone but by how that connectivity is translated into real value through platforms, digital tools, and strong public-private collaboration. At the Second Annual ICT National Summit held at the National …