Churches shouldn’t overlook the now unavoidable solutions towards giving that is smart, fast, and virus free COMMENT | MICHAEL JJINGO | Change is real! Many people doubted the migrating of television programs from analogue to digital, even after appreciating the spin offs that were to follow; crystal clear pictures, better …
Read More »The question is how digital platforms and policymakers might provide protection and benefits COMMENT | SAQIB MUNIR | There is no doubt that 2021 and 2020 have been defining years for the world. The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic will shape our lives for decades to come – both …
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China is positioned to gain from significant constraints to accelerating and diversification of intra-Africa trade COMMENT | JONATHAN MUNEMO | The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) intends to promote regional trade integration in Africa, which can play an important role in accelerating sustained growth and reducing poverty on the …
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It is a delicate balancing act of development of the oil and gas projects and impact on other sectors of the economy COMMENT | YUSUF MASABA | In the recent past, a host of countries; especially those from the West, have announced major commitments to significantly cut the carbon …
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New policies will no doubt deter tourism arrivals and further dampen appetite for travel in an environment that is now more expensive due to added cost of COVID tests COMMENT | DEREK NSEKO | News that the Uganda parliament has okayed a $10 tax on outbound passengers from Uganda comes as …
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Why not exploit opportunities for public private partnership instead of focusing on loans from local banks? COMMENT | RUGABA AGABA | Andrew Mwenda’s “Uganda’s self-destructive impulses” in the Independent Magazine of August 9, 2021 raises interesting perspectives on Uganda’s banking industry and local capital development for social economic transformation. Whereas …
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COMMENT | Samson Tinka | August 2021 will be a month not to be forgotten for a while by the UPDF family. It was both a joyful and sorrowful month. A big number of the original 27 guys who started the Bush War in 1981 retired and among them was Gen …
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COMMENT | Joseph Mukasa Ngubwagye | Preparations to start the construction of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP), the world’s longest heated pipeline, are in high gear. The all-important tripartite agreements between the project developers and the governments of Uganda and Tanzania were signed in the first half of …
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Its purpose is to support political goals and catch attention of those few people who are easily being misled COMMENT | MICHAEL WOIRA | We are now in August and our elections were held in February and the swearing ceremony for the rightfully elected president was also concluded some …
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Homosexuality has become a very explosive social issue that has invaded the politics of the day COMMENT | ROSE WAKIKONA | For a country which in 2020 scored 73 points out of 100, putting it at a rank of 142 out of 180 countries, on the Corruption Perceptions Index, which …
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