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Recent estimates by the Southern and Eastern Africa Trade Information and Negotiations Institute (SEATINI) suggest Africa has lost about $88.6 trillion through illicit financial flows COMMENT | JULIUS BUSINGE | As Uganda prepares for its 2026 elections, the country faces a challenge that extends beyond ballots and campaign slogans: its …

  COMMENT | MICHAEL BURLEIGH | Until a few days ago, it had never crossed my mind that people across Europe – including Londoners like me – were living in a strife-afflicted hell hole, “suffocated” by regulations, stripped of political liberties, and bound for “civilizational erasure.” So, it was with …

    How Old Empires Rebranded Themselves and Learned to Rule Through Chaos COMMENT | ANDREW PI BESI | On Christmas Day in 1497, Vasco da Gama rounded the southern tip of Africa. He named the land he encountered Natalis—Portuguese for Christmas. Today, it is known as KwaZulu-Natal. Da Gama’s voyage opened …

  COMMENT | NNANDA KIZITO SSERUWAGI |  If you want to understand the quality of life lived by the people of any country, the measure, or most widely used standard, is the Human Development Index (HDI). It is published annually by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), ranking nearly all …

  COMMENT | OBED K KATUREEBE |  In one of our animated discussions in a journalists’ chat group, a colleague, Derrick Wandera of the Daily Monitor, questioned why the National Resistance Movement (NRM), and particularly the security agencies, are placing so much emphasis on what he described as “ghetto political slogans” …

  COMMENT |  ELIJAH TUMUSIIME | In an increasingly digital world, the ability to leverage technology for socio-economic growth is paramount. For decision-makers in developing nations, Uganda’s journey in ICT and telecommunications provides not only inspiration but also practical lessons. The transition from limited connectivity to a vibrant digital landscape …

COMMENT | DERRICK KYATUKA | It’s the WhatsApp notifications that do it. Another photo. Another name. Another last-seen location. And suddenly every parent pauses, heart racing, asking the quietest but loudest question: could my child be next? In Kampala and across Uganda reports of missing children feel disturbingly frequent. Every …

    How the US president is breathing fresh air into international affairs that had been poisoned by too much moralism THE LAST WORD | ANDREW M. MWENDA |  For the first time in my adult life, I have read a United States National Security Strategy that speaks sense. What President …

COMMENT | DANIEL FOUBERT | China accomplished the ultimate alchemy of statecraft: compressing the vast, chaotic distinctness of an empire into the singular identity of a nation. The wisdom of the Chinese elite has been the realization that a landmass the size of Europe, containing a linguistic and climatic diversity …

  COMMENT | Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko |  Africa stands at a pivotal economic crossroads. The continent is the world’s largest gold-producing region, yet it holds a fraction of global central bank gold reserves. For decades, gold-rich African economies have operated in a global financial architecture where the US dollar sits at …