NEWS ANALYSIS

The refinery is expected to deliver fairer prices, transparent trading systems and new market opportunities for thousands of artisanal miners, trading posts, and small- and medium-scale mining operators.   SPECIAL REPORT | BIRD AGENCY | Small-scale miners in the Democratic Republic of Congo are tipped to gain access to a …

  After acquiring MultiChoice, French media giant Canal+ is turning to AI to analyze viewing habits and recommend locally relevant films, series and sports. It is also lowering streaming costs, raising the stakes in Africa’s local content battle.   SPECIAL REPORT | BIRD AGENCY | African streaming subscribers could soon …

A new wave of reforms across Africa is setting the stage for significantly cheaper cross-border call rates, as regional blocs and national regulators move to cut mobile termination rates (MTRs) and roaming charges.   SPECIAL REPORT | BIRD AGENCY | Cross-border traders and travellers across Africa are set to benefit …

Inside Opposition leader’s plan to pressure Kampala from Washington   NEWS ANALYSIS | IAN KATUSIIME | Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine, president of the National Unity Platform (NUP) and a presidential candidate in the 2026 elections, has entered a new phase of his political struggle: shifting the battleground from the …

  Some traditionalists in the Church of England and the wider global Anglican Communion continue to oppose the idea of women being priests at all   London, UK  | AGENCIES | The first female Archbishop of Canterbury said her teenage self “could never have imagined the future that lay ahead”, …

BEIJING | Xinhua |  A light bulb is not something most people would associate with governance. Yet nearly four decades ago, while working in one of the poorest parts of east China’s Fujian Province as the Party chief of Ningde Prefecture, Xi Jinping told local officials that ensuring access to …

With COP32 scheduled for Addis Ababa already dominating political discussions across the continent, African leaders must choose their language more carefully   COMMENT |  MARTHA BEKELE | When politicians nowadays talk about Africa and climate change, they tend to use the same words: “leadership”, “opportunity”, and “solutions”. Africa is no longer …

For years, Uganda’s TB response has relied heavily on symptom-based screening. It is a low-cost approach, but one that experts increasingly describe as blunt and inadequate   Kampala, Uganda | PATRICIA AKANKWATSA | Uganda’s response to tuberculosis is entering a new and more technologically driven phase. But as health experts …

Smallholders are already saving soils, biodiversity, and communities; they just need the market to notice   Kampala, Uganda | RONALD MUSOKE |  In global markets, value often depends on visibility. Coffee is graded; organic produce is certified and fair trade comes with a label. Yet agroecological products; grown with care for …

Each day spent fetching water steals time, education, and opportunity, highlighting inequalities that persist worldwide   NEWS FEATURE | RONALD MUSOKE | In the vast, sun-scorched plains of Uganda’s northeastern region of Karamoja, the search for water begins before the day has properly broken. In scattered homesteads across this semi-arid region, …