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Will Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical do for the AI age what Rerum Novarum did for the industrial age?   COMMENT | NIUSHA SHAFIABADY & OTHERS | Pope Leo XIV has just declared artificial intelligence one of the defining moral challenges of our time, in his first encyclical: a formal letter intended …

What Uganda can learn from countries that enjoyed industrial transformation   THE LAST WORD | ANDREW M. MWENDA |  My friend, Ellison Karuhanga, wrote a brilliant defense of President Yoweri Museveni’s policy of allocating state benefits to private companies in pursuit of Uganda’s industrial development. He argued that the president’s critics …

COMMENT |  CATHERINE PSOMGEN | For decades, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) across Africa has largely revolved around donations, charity drives, and short-term community interventions. While these initiatives remain important, they rarely create long-term systemic transformation. Increasingly, the future of impactful corporate responsibility lies in sustainable investments that develop people, strengthen …

  COMMENT | ANDREW PI BESI |  It all began with Andrew Mwenda’s unfortunate description of President Yoweri Museveni as old and senile. Days later, President Museveni, in a manner typical of him, responded through the same medium (X formerly Twitter), writing, to wit: “Mr Mwenda, thank you for declaring me senile …

  The European Court of Justice ruled that preventing athletes from moving freely within the EU was an unreasonable restraint of labour   COMMENT | DAVID ROWE | When famous soccer players come to mind, it is usually revered pioneers such as Pelé, Bobby Charlton and Diego Maradona. Later came Cristiano …

But what kind of alliance would it become?   COMMENT | GORANA GRGIC | As NATO counts down to its annual summit in Turkey in July, the alliance is facing perhaps the biggest challenge in its history – what a potential future without the United States, or US security guarantees, …

  Designing policies that work for people where they live, shop and cook will not only cut down on food waste but will also save money, emissions and dignity   COMMENT | IAN WILLIAMS | Europe is wasting huge amounts of food while millions of people globally experience hunger. Wars in …

COMMENT | NANTEZA SARAH KYOBE | President Yoweri Museveni’s remarks at his inauguration for a seventh term and at the election of the Speaker of the 12th Parliament have set a tone of urgency and high expectation that complacency and underperformance would no longer be tolerated from all public officials. In his …

  COMMENT | OBED K KATUREEBE |  “A stitch in time saves nine” is a British proverb, meaning that taking immediate action to fix a problem prevents it from becoming a larger, more laborious issue later. The phrase originates from sewing—sewing a tiny tear in a piece of cloth immediately saves you …

COMMENT | DR JUDE KAGORO | In Uganda, power does not merely reside in State House, Parliament, or the Constitution. It circulates through symbols, networks, uniforms, proximity, and perception. Some individuals command authority not because they formally hold office, but because society has already invested them with what Pierre Bourdieu would …