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How Shakespeare can help us shift from the accumulation of wealth, power and status to a search for our deeper purpose COMMENT | PAUL YACHNIN & LAURETTE DUBE | From greed for resources and money to technology run amok and a politics of domination, hatred and fear of others, our world …

Cloud computing infrastructure, analytics hailed for transforming business processes Kampala, Uganda | IAN KATUSIIME | US-based tech powerhouse Oracle has teamed up with Eclectics International, a leading Kenyan IT firm, to provide innovative technological solutions aimed at driving business efficiency and digital transformation across East Africa and beyond. The partnership was …

If Museveni went to the bush over rigged elections, then restoring a credible elections should have been his main goal COMMENT | MORRIS KOMAKECH |  The most deceptive narrative for justifying the 1980-85 Luwero bush war was that then-president Milton Obote’s Uganda Peoples Congress (UPC) party rigged 1980 general elections. …

Scientists raise alarm about new variants, urge national disease testing ANALYSIS | AGENCIES | Foreign aid cuts could result in a major outbreak of mpox across the African continent and beyond, with virus control measures already disrupted, public health experts warn. Mpox testing and monitoring efforts in hotspot areas like the …

Study models how going electric could save lives Kampala, Uganda | GABRIEL OKELLO | In Uganda, motorcycles known as boda bodas are a key part of the transport system. The country has over 1.5 million boda bodas on the road, amounting to roughly 70% of all vehicles. Boda bodas are crucial in …

Makano works with witty artistic imagery in his new body of work to elicit his audience’s attention to the suffering and brutality in his motherland. ART | DOMINIC MUWANGUZI | Abstract paintings hanging on the white washed walls immediately grip your attention as soon as you make your entry into Umoja …

These trade facilities are designed to serve as physical and institutional hubs that promote trade facilitation, investment promotion, and capacity building across Africa Abuja, Nigeria | THE INDEPENDENT | Africa’s multilateral lender, African Export-Import Bank, has unveiled plans to establish seven Afreximbank African Trade Centres (AATCs) across the continent in a …

Inside Uganda’s struggle to make insurance work for the ordinary citizen Kampala, Uganda | JULIUS BUSINGE | By the time Agnes Nakato’s (not her real name) husband died in a road accident, she had no idea that his employer’s life insurance policy could have supported their three school-going children. “No one …

Uganda’s tax overhaul draws praise—and alarm—from civil society Kampala, Uganda | JULIUS BUSINGE | A coalition of over 50 civil society organizations under the Tax Justice Alliance Uganda (TJAU) has raised critical concerns over the Government of Uganda’s proposed Tax Amendment Bills for the 2025/26 financial year, warning that certain changes …

Experts say the region’s mineral certification mechanism remains patchy, under-implemented, and hindered by political and regulatory gaps ANALYSIS | RONALD MUSOKE | Fourteen years since 12 governments in the Great Lakes region unanimously agreed to create a foolproof international system for certifying and auditing minerals that have been blamed for fomenting …