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In the looming election, many voters are giving up their power and voice for temporary gains COMMENT | WALTER AKENA | As Uganda prepares for the 2026 general elections, a familiar pattern is beginning to emerge. Campaign rallies are growing louder, candidates are crisscrossing constituencies, and political posters are being plastered …

Why Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s fixation on total victory is as misguided as it is dangerous COMMENT | SHLOMO BEN-AMI | The rapidly escalating military conflict between Israel and Iran represents a clash of ambitions. Iran seeks to become a nuclear power, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu longs to …

New drivers continue to join platforms even as fares were slashed starting in 2016 COMMENT | JULIE ZOLLMANN | Many argue that gig work involves exploitation, as research and media coverage have highlighted. But that doesn’t seem to deter ride hailing drivers on platforms like Uber and Bolt. In Kenya, in …

Ukraine has just demonstrated, in spectacular fashion, that a small but determined and innovative country can deploy cheap, scalable, and decentralized technology to challenge a much larger, conventionally superior foe. COMMENT | IAN BREMMER | On June 1, Ukraine conducted one of the most extraordinary asymmetric operations in modern military history. …

But can it succeed? COMMENT | MATTI BARTHEL, JOHAN SIX & TRAVIS DRAKE | The government of the Democratic Republic of Congo passed a law in January 2025 to lead efforts to establish the largest tropical forest reserve in the world. It will be set up as a 2,600km long green …

Judging by Musk’s approval ratings, Tesla investors won’t be the only ones happy to see the dethroning of the king of Doge COMMENT | MARINA HYDE | I can’t believe that Elon Musk is leaving Doge, the government department he named after a tired and basic meme that most of the …

When packaging overshadows service delivery, the leadership fails to confront the full stench of dysfunction and act COMMENT | OKUMU MIKE IBRAHIM | In recent times, I have come to better understand why many frontier organisations such as the Economic Policy Research Center now prefer to observe prospective employees—through internships, …

Why Ugandans of all political persuasions should reject European interventions into our domestic affair THE LAST WORD | Andrew M. Mwenda | On Wednesday, May 21, I attended a meeting of Gen Salim Saleh with EU ambassadors in Gulu. What was reported in the press and social media video clips, were fragments that …

That’s why new rules are needed COMMENT | MARTIN BEKKER | The problem is simple: it’s hard to know whether a photo’s real or not anymore. Photo manipulation tools are so good, so common and easy to use, that a picture’s truthfulness is no longer guaranteed. The situation got trickier with …

COMMENT | SYLVIA MULINGE | Last week, I revisited Uganda’s National Broadband Policy of 2018—and what I found was a compelling vision still waiting to be fully realised. The policy aims high. It promises to make fast, affordable, and reliable internet access available to all Ugandans—urban and rural, rich and poor. …