COMMENT | Samson Tinka | On 26th Nov 2020 at 08:08hours, I sent an email to Eng. Samuel Sserunkuma of KCCA complaining of the unmotorable road between Entebbe road at Kenjoy supermarket, through the valley crossing Salama road via Calendar Pub up to current Makindye traffic lights. Those days my children …
Read More »Confronting digital disruption
How African businesses can capitalise on transformational functions in a brave new world COMMENT | Vincent Maher | Africa faces a reckoning when it comes to its relationship with digital technology. Challenges related to infrastructure rollout and the high cost of data mean it’s difficult for enterprises and institutions to adopt new …
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How Africa’s media covered Nigeria recent general elections and why it matters for the next coverage COMMENT | Azubuike Ishiekwene | Between February and March 2023, Nigerians went to the polls to elect a new President and parliament. This was the seventh national vote since Nigeria’s transition from military rule in 1999. …
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Science, Solutions and Solidarity ensure the United Nations health agency remains central to protecting future health COMMENT | Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus | Turning history’s page on its deadliest conflict, countries came together in 1948 to heal a bloodied world. After years of war, distrust and pain, nations across the globe forged a …
Read More »YEAR 2023: Quarter 1 is gone, what next?
COMMENT | Elizabeth K. Patience | As we crossed over to 2023, nearly all of us had visions, dreams, goals, targets and prayer requests for the year well stated out. Over the years, this has been the norm for most people but to no fulfilment at the end of the year. While …
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COMMENT | Judith Hope Kiconco | Ladies, can you remember of a time you got on your period out of home only to realise, you had not carried any pads? Or for women that experience a heavy flow during periods that you quickly run through what you had carried from home …
Read More »A brave new world: How African businesses can confront and capitalise on digital disruption
As Africa becomes more connected, more of its citizens are participating in the global digital economy. That means they are growing accustomed to a global experience, and African enterprises must offer that same experience. COMMENT | VINCENT MAHER | Africa faces a reckoning when it comes to its relationship with …
Read More »The simplest fix for banking
Monetary authorities could introduce a digital currency to make the payments system more fluid COMMENT | Jan Eeckhout | Last year, the Nobel Prize in Economics went to two economists who study the dynamics of bank runs, as well as to former U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke for his work analyzing …
Read More »Leveraging the International Chamber of Commerce
How Ugandan MSME can benefit from its focus on strengthening the institutional capacity of Chambers of Commerce & Industry COMMENT | David Bikhado Ofungi | The past decade has been associated with a revaluation of what corporate citizenry means. For a long time, companies were happy to park the Corporate Social Responsibility …
Read More »Can governments still steer the economy?
The national budget’s purpose should be to use fiscal policy to protect the least well-off from disruptive blows COMMENT | Robert Skidelsky | In 1969, the British financial journalist Samuel Brittan published a book called `Steering the Economy: The Role of the Treasury’. At the time, it was still widely assumed that …
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