Five months into the job, Ato Girma Wake is quietly rebuilding Uganda Airlines from the inside out COMMENT | DEREK NSEKO | When Ato Girma Wake accepted the role of acting chief executive officer of Uganda Airlines five months ago, he inherited something few airline executives would envy. An …
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AI has become the frontline of an intense global competition for economic and geopolitical power but, for whom is this intelligence ultimately meant to serve? COMMENT | KAILASH SATYARTHI | The defining question of our time is no longer whether AI will transform our world. It already has. What the world needs …
Read More »Can Uganda’s First Oil ease East Africa’s fuel crisis
COMMENT | IVAN DARLINGTON MWEBE | Recent fuel price shocks across East Africa have once again exposed a structural vulnerability the region can no longer ignore. In Kenya, diesel prices have climbed past Ksh 206 per litre, with petrol following closely. In Tanzania, fuel now trades above TSh 3,800 …
Read More »Uganda needs a conversation about marriage
COMMENT | NANTEZA SARAH KYOBE | Recent remarks by President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni on the rising cost of bride price and increasingly expensive wedding ceremonies have sparked an important national conversation. Whether one agrees with every aspect of his argument or not, the concern he raised deserves serious …
Read More »What should we do about Sino trucks that dominate our roads?
COMMENT | MATHIAS RUKUBA | Every morning, thousands of Ugandans leave their homes and get onto the roads with a simple expectation. To return safely at the end of the day. They hug their children goodbye, promise to be back for supper, head to work, school, business, or the market, …
Read More »How digitisation is defining the future of banking
Self-service replacing the brick-and-mortar model COMMENT | LAURA BAHEMUKA | The evolution of banking from what it was, brick-and-mortar, to what we are witnessing today is all thanks to the growth in technology and innovations. These have enabled digitisation in banking so that more people are ushered into …
Read More »FIRST OIL AND BEYOND: The road to a US$500 Billion Economy
COMMENT | ALI SSEKATAWA | When President Yoweri Museveni met the Uganda Cranes team following their exit from the AFCON 2025 campaign, he drew on his military experience to deliver a lesson that transcended football. He reminded the players that every force has an Area of Responsibility (AOR) …
Read More »Uganda cannot afford more preventable deaths on its roads
COMMENT | THE INDEPENDENT | At least 14 people were killed this week when a truck carrying sand collided with a commuter taxi van in Kalungu District. All of the dead were passengers in the van. Four others were injured. The truck driver fled the scene and remains at large. …
Read More »MUSEVENI: Who is Nuwagaba?
Response to Mwenda on the issue of Stephen Nuwagaba COMMENT | YOWERI K MUSEVENI | The People of Uganda, especially the Bazzukulu. Kopango. Iriyo maber. Apoyo kwir maber recently. Having thanked Ugandans for voting very well in the recent LC-1 elections, we shall get time to say more …
Read More »The map was wrong, but the perception problem is real
NAIROBI, Kenya | Xinhua | A bizarre map of Africa recently appeared in a U.S. government presentation at an international conference in Brazil. Nigeria was shown as a landlocked country in the Sahara, Mozambique was moved to the Horn of Africa, and Cote d’Ivoire was placed on the opposite side …
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