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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 …

  Practical measures to strengthen land tenure security in support of food security are required urgently  COMMENT | CHRISTOPHER BURKE | Climate change is real.  Greater effort is required to improve land governance and agrobiodiveristy in order to strengthen resilience to deal with the adverse effects of climate change already …

How America is dragging the world to the brink of nuclear annihilation in a matter of no strategic interest to it THE LAST WORD | ANDREW M. MWENDA | Western media coverage of the Russian invasion of Ukraine has been propagandistic. It demonstrates that they are not independent as they …

What President Putin is doing is not only a grave violation of international law, it is a violation of the basic principles of human co-existence OPINION | JOSEPH BORRELL | At this dark hour, when we see Russia’s unprovoked and unjustified invasion of Ukraine and massive disinformation campaigns and information manipulation, it …

Why those who thought they were above the law will soon realise that this is not the case THE LAST WORD | ANDREW M. MWENDA | On February11, businessman Sudhir Ruparelia won yet another victory in the Supreme Court against Bank of Uganda over the fate of Crane Bank. The …