Opinion

AVIATION DIGEST | JARED KALERA |  The news from the aviation world has in the past two years been particularly depressing.  Almost every player globally has been crying, supposedly due to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the industry. Do not be fooled however. Losses in the airline business did …

External employment has contributed greatly to employing young Ugandans COMMENT | Samson Tinka |  It is estimated that there are over 100,000 Ugandans working in the Middle East alone. Remittances from Ugandans in the diaspora is said to bring into the country $1 billion every year. This is actually a drop by …

COMMENT | DEDAN TUMUSIIME |  Recent reports that the Ministry of Education and Sports was considering allowing greater use of mobile phones in post-primary institutions will divide the country in two. Easier availability of mobile phones, especially among individual students in secondary schools, has one big single benefit. Greater and …

Why the U.S should beware of the law of unintended consequences THE LAST WORD | ANDREW M MWENDA | There is a huge misunderstanding of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine. Many people see it as an unprovoked act of aggression by a megalomaniacal President Vladmir Putin against a small …

The sanctions imposed so far on Russia do not yet threaten the survival of the Russian state. But President Vladimir Putin may regard a Western attempt to cut off the remainder of Russia’s international trade, especially in energy, as an existential threat. COMMENT | ROBERT SKIDELSKY | The West has …

Over 16 sectors have by law been ring-fenced for local companies. Transport, security, foods, beverages, hotel management and catering, human resource management, office supplies, fuel supplies, land surveying, clearing and forwarding, locally available construction materials and civil works COMMENT | ABDUL KIBUUKA | Sixteen years since commercially viable oil deposits …

COMMENT | Samson Tinka | I knew something has changed when my wife received a call from our supplier of baking items on the morning of March 9, 2022 announcing a 15% price increase. Just 12 months ago, the cost of sugar, baking flour and prestige margarine which are the …

  COMMENT | OSCORD MARK OTILE  | The launch of Parish Development Model (PDM) has set in motion series of activities aimed at increasing household incomes, improving quality of lives and propelling the proportion of Ugandan households still trapped in the subsistence economy into the money economy. Similar interventions such as …

How the radical extremism of NUP is the best recruiting ground for Museveni THE LAST WORD | ANDREW M. MWENDA | The current Twitter war by Nobert Mao against the radical extremists of NUP is a manifestation of the major pitfalls that have bedeviled the opposition in Uganda. Slowly, these …

  COMMENT | HELEN CLARK & DR TEDROS ADHAMON GHEBREYESUS |  As societies, we are failing to protect children and families from the marketing of products that undermine their health and development. One of the most egregious examples of this is the aggressive promotion of commercial milk formula for babies …