African leaders must treat plastic pollution as an urgent public health crisis ANALYSIS | SOPHIE MASIKA & LORRAINE MUGAMBI-NYABOGA | Microplastics are all around us. In the air we breathe, the food we eat, the water we drink. Those tiny fragments of broken-down plastic waste, are now part of our everyday …
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Event serves as a vital platform for democratic dialogue, connecting people from across society in open, respectful conversations ANALYSIS | RONALD MUSOKE | On June 5, Denmark celebrates Constitution Day—a significant national event that commemorates the adoption of the country’s first constitution in 1849 and its modern revision in 1953, both …
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Kampala, Uganda | Nakisanze Segawa Global Press Journal Uganda | It was a local election, and, for most of the day, it was peaceful, says Huzaifa Mugerwa, a young journalist covering voting for the first time. But as the day of voting wrapped up, Mugerwa says, a masked man kicked a ballot box. …
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Progress, power, and the promise of transformation ANALYSIS | JULIUS BUSINGE | On June 5, the Kololo Ceremonial Grounds in Kampala were sealed off—an exclusive zone accessible only to those clutching invitation cards, as President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni delivered the highly anticipated State of the Nation Address. Under the afternoon sun …
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Worldwide, teenage pregnancy continues to derail the futures of thousands of girls each year, cutting short their education, straining family ties, and pushing many into early marriage or economic hardship. Yet, amid the statistics and stigma, stories of resilience and support are emerging. From Lagos to Lilongwe and from Nairobi …
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It is worth remembering that Trump’s early attacks on the Fed’s independence already backfired. US stocks sank, bond yields spiked, and Trump stopped threatening to fire Fed Chair Jerome Powell. COMMENT | NOURIEL ROUBINI | Since US President Donald Trump’s election last year, I have argued that at least some of his policies …
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President Yoweri Museveni and First Lady Janet Museveni have in the past three years read thanks giving and apology messages to the people of Northern, Eastern and Western region; and capped the messages with one for Buganda, on May 24th NEWS ANALYSIS | THE INDEPENDENT | On May 24th, at …
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Having entered the race last, Sidi Ould Tah leveraged his country’s diplomatic networks, bolstered by Mohamed Ould Ghazouani’s chairmanship of the African Union in 2024 ANALYSIS | AGENCIES | Mauritanian Sidi Ould Tah beat four other candidates after three rounds of voting. He becomes the 9th president of the pan-African institution for the next …
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What this means for former IGP Kayihura ANALYSIS | IAN KATUSIIME | The arrest of Nixon Agasirwe, former commander of the Uganda Police Special Operations Unit, has opened a trail that leads to his long-time boss, the former Inspector General of Police (IGP), Gen. Kale Kayihura—placing the retired general in the …
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A look at the novels, essays, and poems that made the late Kenyan writer one of the most influential literary and political voices of the 20th and 21st centuries ANALYSIS | LIHLE Z. MTSHALI | Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o wasn’t just a writer — he was a liberator of language, memory, and …
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The Independent Uganda: You get the Truth we Pay the Price
