But Putin has never looked weaker and more vulnerable to the Kremlin’s powerful elites uniting against him COMMENT | MATTHEW SUSSEX | It is increasingly clear that a rattled Vladimir Putin’s political end is approaching. All that really matters now is whether it comes sooner or later. Having appeared on national …

Together with social isolation, they rare associated with an increased risk of all-cause mortality Kampala, Uganda | AGENCIES | A new study confirms an association between social isolation, loneliness, and mortality. The authors investigated how the two phenomena were linked to all-cause deaths and deaths from cardiovascular disease and breast cancer. …

Who’s behind it and how it could be controlled Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Every now and then the trade in human organs makes national, even international, news. In March 2023, a Nigerian politician, his wife and a medical middleman were found guilty of an organ-trafficking plot after they brought …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Tsitsi Dangarembga is a Zimbabwean playwright, filmmaker and award-winning novelist who is vocal about freedom of expression and human rights. In 2020, she was convicted by a Zimbabwean court for inciting violence after carrying out a march calling for political reforms. The charge was later …

EAC remains the biggest market for Kenya’s value-added products such as Cement, Palm oil, Coated Flat-rolled Iron, Soap, Machinery Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |Kenya’s decision to conclude negotiations for an Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with the European Union has sparked verbal fights with civil society organisations saying the deal …

Makers of Koudijs break ground on 50,000 tonnes aquafeed plant Kampala, Uganda | AGENCIES | De Heus Animal Nutrition broke ground for a state-of-the-art dedicated aquafeed plant in Njeru, near Jinja in central Uganda. The plant will be able to produce 50,000 tonnes of fish feed per year, meeting the growing …

Kampala, Uganda | PATRICIA AKANKWATSA | Funds locked up in Uganda’s commercial courts as a result of financial disputes have risen to Shs 8 trillion negatively impacting investments, according to the Justice and Constitutional Affairs Minister, Norbert Mao. In 2021, the funds locked up in unresolved disputes before Commercial Court Division …

The adoption of PAPSS’s cutting-edge settlement model will streamline operations and empower businesses across Africa Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Five African multinational commercial banking groups including KCB Group, Standard Bank Group, UBA Group, Ecobank Group and Access Bank Group have signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Afreximbank’s Pan-African Payment …

Nebbi, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Archbishop of the Church of Uganda province Dr. Stephen Kazimba Mugalu has urged Multitudes of Christians in Nebbi Diocese to desist from homosexuality tendencies. Archbishop Kazimba Mugalu told the multitude of Christians who thronged St. Stephen Church Goli compound that it is the high …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Road safety experts and drivers have reacted in polarised ways to the new traffic amendment which has increased traffic penalty for driving beyond the prescribed speed from 200,000 shillings up to two million shillings. President Yoweri Museveni has assented to the amendment of Article (2) …