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  COMMENT | Crispin Kaheru | The NRM party primary elections may have come off as vibrant on a positive note, but they also depicted a game of money, power, guns and impunity – in some cases.  There were some disturbing scenes of violence in as much as there were portions of …

COMMENT | Joseph Mukasa Ngubwagye |  Projects in the oil and gas sector require, among other things, land for temporary and permanent infrastructure and installations. This land acquisition is achieved through Resettlement Action Plans (RAPs) which seek to specify all resettlement arrangements and measures for avoiding, minimizing or compensating losses or …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | Julius Businge |  The Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Uganda is set to hold the 10th Financial Reporting (FiRe) Awards on Nov.04, 2020, officials said at a virtual press conference on Sept.10.  The  awards  were  introduced  in  2011  to  enhance  the  quality  of  financial  …

  COMMENT | Joseph Mukasa Ngubwagye |  The COVID-19 pandemic has presented unique challenges across all aspects of society. Healthcare systems have been strained, schools closed, and economies constrained. The energy sector has not been spared. Many oil producing countries have suffered big losses, and their economies have been threatened due …

The continent’s debt-service payments in 2020 amount to $44 billion which is a lot of money COMMENT | COBUS VAN STADEN | The COVID-19 crisis is pushing Africa to the financial brink. African governments are under pressure to continue servicing their external loans, leaving them with few resources to confront …

COMMENT | Andrew M. Mwenda  | In the age of social media, with its instantaneous dissemination of news, alongside such technologies as deep fake and photoshop, journalists in mainstream media need to be extremely skeptical and cautious of all information even that on video that seems authentic. Nowhere has journalism …

  COMMENT | VIMAL KUMAR |  What is now very clear, is that in terms of digital innovation and progress, we have had to compress several years of evolution into a very short space of time as everyone has been forced to adapt to managing businesses remotely and the deployment …

COMMENT | DANIEL ABOWE | It’s now 14 years since Uganda discovered commercially viable quantities of oil and gas along Lake Albert basin. Since then, Uganda’s oil and gas sector has transitioned from the exploration and appraisal phase to the development phase in preparation for production projected for 2023. Planned …

Doing so will require a new educational philosophy and investing in basic digital infrastructure. COMMENT | HANAN MORSY | Key features of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) – accelerating digitalisation, artificial intelligence (AI), cloud computing, robotics, and 3D printing – have obvious and important implications for education, employment, and the …

Private firms undertake the bulk of R&D but governments fund it and must offer it direction COMMENT | DANI RODRIK | Innovation is the engine that drives contemporary economies. Living standards are determined by productivity growth, which in turn depends on the introduction and dissemination of new technologies that allow …