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  COMMENT | JAEL CHRISTINE WAWULIRA | For many women, banking is not just about opening an account or taking a loan. It is about finding financial services that understand their realities, support their ambitions, and respond to the responsibilities they carry every day. This is why customer experience has …

An electric vehicle requires roughly four times more copper than a conventional internal-combustion engine car because of their heavy reliance on electric wiring, motors and batteries. SPECIAL FEATURE | DERRICK LAMAR WATIMA  | In the 20th century, oil shaped global power — it made and unmade nations. Nations sitting on vast petroleum …

Could China and America be destined for peace, not war? COMMENT | NNANDA KIZITO SSERUWAGI | How about this: rather than being destined for war, America and China were actually destined for peace? Could America’s treating of China as an enemy risk turning it into one? And could the opposite also …

COMMENT | OBED K KATUREEBE | The increasingly speculative UN Commission on Human Rights has once again issued a report about Uganda’s involvement in the South Sudan conflict. The report makes serious allegations against the Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF), which are currently working to prevent what could become one of …

COMMENT | ALLAN OMURON | Uganda’s boda-boda sector operates under relentless pressure, tight margins, long working hours, unforgiving roads that push the riders and machines to their limits. Conversations about boda safety often focus on rider behaviour – speeding, helmet use, licensing, or traffic discipline – leaving out one equally …

    The coming costs of America’s new war on its competition with China, its allies in the region and the world economy   THE LAST WORD | ANDREW M. MWENDA |  I wrote in this column on December 19th last year, praising Donald Trump’s National Security Strategy. In it, the US president …

COMMENT | MICHAEL WAMBI | As the world commemorates International Women’s Day, attention is once again turning to the progress women have made in the workplace and the challenges that remain. Artificial Intelligence (AI) refers to the field of computer science and technology focused on creating systems and machines that can …

COMMENT | THE INDEPENDENT | Women’s empowerment should not be treated as a seasonal conversation but as a long-term commitment woven into how businesses, institutions, and communities operate. That is the message Phos Creatives is advancing as conversations around women in business and digital spaces continue to gain momentum. In …

  COMMENT | JANE NALUNGA | In an increasingly uncertain global economy marked by geopolitical rivalry, fragile supply chains, climate shocks and shifting trade alliances, regional integration is no longer simply an aspirational development agenda; it has become a strategic necessity. For East Africa, the East African Community (EAC) represents one …

BOOK REVIEW | CRISPIN KAHERU | History often remembers revolutions by the sound of guns. Yet the most transformative revolutions are quieter. They happen in the mind first, then in the marketplace, and finally in the lives of ordinary people. That is the central lesson from ‘My Psycho-Economic Evolution’, the reflections …