MBALE, Uganda | Xinhua | As dawn breaks, Hellen Mugala, 27, joins hundreds of her colleagues on their way to work at the Sino-Uganda Mbale Industrial Park, located in the eastern Ugandan district of Mbale. “This industrial park has helped many local people. I have acquired skills and earned a …

African countries would be far better advised to focus on ways to fix the attractiveness of their own domestic economies, including tax systems, than to wait for the world to develop a new taxation system. ANALYSIS | MUKHISA KITUYI & DANIEL A. WITT | A piece in the Financial Times published …

African countries pay interest rates eight times higher than those of the typical World Bank loan COMMENT | WILLIAM RUTO | Climate change continues to ravage Africa, which is enduring extreme weather and natural disasters on an unprecedented scale. My own country, Kenya, has just emerged from its longest drought on …

WASHINGTON | TASS | US President Joe Biden gave the Kiev government a secret permission to use US-supplied weaponry for attacking targets deep in the Russian territory, the Politico newspaper reported citing own sources. According to the report, the permission applies to Russian regions that border Ukraine’s northwestern region of …

But rather than vegetarian or vegan, a flexitarian diet is best ANALYSIS | AGENCIES | A new scientific literature review has found that vegetarian and vegan diets help improve cardiometabolic risk factors, such as elevated lipids, blood sugar, body weight, BMI, and inflammation. The individuals studied also had a lower risk …

While maintaining the appearance of independence, they often do what governments want COMMENT | ROBERT SKIDELSKY | The United Kingdom’s economic policy is adrift. That was the main conclusion from the House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee’s inquiry into the Bank of England’s failure to predict the worst inflation in 40 …

Your visit showed us you were serving someone’s vested interests but not the interests of the people of Kalaki COMMENT | JULIUS ODEKE | Dear Hon Rose Lily Akello, minister in charge Ethics and Integrity, on behalf of the people of Kalaki District, I commend you for the efforts you are …

MOSCOW, Russia| TASS | The likelihood of a full-scale war breaking out between Russia and the West is growing, but it is not inevitable, Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) Director General Ivan Timofeev told TASS. “A full-scale war is not is not a foregone conclusion, but unfortunately, its likelihood is …

BERLIN, Germany | Xinhua | An energetic aura comes with the man in the white shirt entering the podium in the Allianz Arena. Vincent Kompany came with perfectly rolled-up sleeves, a firm look, and a touch of natural ease. His physical presence, his firm and convincing statements might have given …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  A report by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and the Plastic Free Foundation has revealed that up to 97 percent of Ugandans want global plastic production to be reduced. Uganda was among the 32 countries from which the global survey was conducted. The …