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    The king’s speech pushed in interesting ways at the boundaries of what a British monarch might be expected to have said in Trump’s America   COMMENT | PHILIP MURPHY | King Charles’s recent speech to the US Congress – only the second such address by a British monarch – …

  New forensics facility set to strengthen evidence in Uganda’s Wildlife Court   Kampala, Uganda | RONALD MUSOKE | On the edge of Lake Victoria, at the Uganda Wildlife Conservation Education Centre in Entebbe, the mood on April 29 carried a quiet kind of significance. There were speeches, handshakes, and the …

  Over five years, the country has invested in STI to shift from commodities to industrial and knowledge-based production   NEWS ANALYSIS | JULIUS BUSINGE | When Vice President Jessica Alupo visited a science museum in Moscow, Russia, last year, she expected a routine tour. Instead, she found herself inside …

  Uganda’s insurance boom is failing to reach the majority   Kampala, Uganda | JULIUS BUSINGE | Uganda’s insurance industry is being forced to confront an uncomfortable truth: it is growing, but it is not yet protecting most Ugandans. That was the central message at the 4th Annual Insurance Agents …

    How youth in a small town in Uganda answered Gen Muhoozi’s call and its implications for our country   THE LAST WORD | ANDREW M. MWENDA | On April 26th, I met a team of PLU activists from Hima, an industrial town in Kasese District. They rented a minibus …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | MTN Uganda, through its corporate social responsibility arm, MTN Foundation, in partnership with Maendeleo Foundation, has graduated 225 participants under its Internet Bus digital literacy programme in Amuru District in northern Uganda. The initiative is part of a wider push to expand digital skills among …

As crises become more complex, less predictable, and increasingly intertwined, the global system is no longer anchored by shared rules and norms   COMMENT | MARK LEONARD | The US-Israeli strike that killed Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and launched the United States’ most consequential Middle Eastern adventure since …

  Investing in frontline health workers is essential to preserving the vital medical safety net that keeps refugee women and girls alive   COMMENT | KRISTINE BLOKHUS | When a sudden flash flood in Northern Uganda’s Lamwo District submerged the road, 28-year-old midwife Alice found her ambulance and life-saving medical supplies stranded …

The true measure of Uganda’s oil and gas sector will not be production volumes, but its ability to drive structural economic transformation   COMMENT | MUMBA KALIFUNGWA | As Uganda approaches the long-anticipated milestone of first oil, it does so at a moment of deep contradiction in the global energy …

Institutional investors are driving much of the growth in domestic capital. Pension and insurance assets have now surpassed $1 trillion for the first time Nairobi, Kenya | THE INDEPENDENT |  Africa’s domestic capital has grown to a point where it now exceeds external financing flows, marking a shift in how …