LABOUR DAY 2021 🇺🇬 | BY DAVID RUPINY | Shillat Nambooze Kauma is a young graduate who, instead of looking for a job, opted to plunge right into the realm of entrepreneurship. Two years ago, Shillat and her friend set up Puristry, a firm that makes high-end cosmetics from shea butter. The …
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Why African countries need reliable local data on sugary drinks tax revenue, VAT, corporate tax and customs duty revenue COMMENT | AGNES ERZSE AND KAREN HOFMAN | Professor and Programme Director, SA MRC Centre for Health Economics and Decision Science – PRICELESS SA (Priority Cost Effective Lessons in Systems Strengthening …
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Can the FUFA president get a third term after Uganda Cranes fallout over unpaid allowances, disrespect? COMMENT | IAN KATUSIIME | The curse that haunts presidents seeking a third term in Uganda seems to have come for Moses Magogo, the president of Federation of Uganda Football Associations (FUFA). Magogo, as …
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He can intervene in controversy dam is causing between Egypt and some Nile river riparian countries COMMENT | SIMON KIMOYI | Faced with a current water scarcity and a Republic of Ethiopia determined to go ahead with its second filling of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) this July, Sudan …
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Social-media platforms today are entering their teenage years: they have a history but lack maturity COMMENT | MATT LOCKE | On May 9, 1961, then-Chair of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Newton Minow delivered a transformative speech to the National Association of Broadcasters in Washington, DC. Now known as …
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It is one of the important factors behind employees increased productivity despite COVID restrictions COMMENT | EDOARDO CAMPANELLA | The COVID-19 pandemic has damaged the stock of physical and human capital. Firms have postponed or canceled investment projects, and laid-off or furloughed workers’ skills have deteriorated. The crisis, however, has …
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The East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline is a project with multiple dire social, economic and environmental impacts COMMENT | VANESSA NAKATE AND LANDRY NINTERETSE | Dear Presidents Yoweri Museveni of Uganda and Suluhu Hassan of Tanzania, building the world’s longest heated crude oil pipeline in the midst of a climate …
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Why the climate crisis which is putting human civilisation itself at risk must remain front-page news COMMENT | JULES KORTENHORST | In addressing climate change, “winning” slowly is the same as losing. We have only one chance to fix this problem before it becomes an existential threat, and the window …
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None of these vaccines has the ability to cause COVID-19 disease, but they may occasionally trigger side effects COVID-19 SPECIAL FEATURE | Linda Geddes | Vaccines work by training the immune system to recognise a pathogen – such as the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19 – without making you …
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How attempts to tarnish the name and record of Paul Kagame soils the reputation of a British journalist THE LAST WORD | ANDREW M. MWENDA | Finally, I have finished reading Michela Wrong’s 516 memoir of Patrick Karegyeya; a former Rwandan intelligence chief who was killed on or about New Year’s …
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