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Lessons from Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria COVER STORY | THE INDEPENDENT TEAM | Until 2017, the Koshe Landfill on the edge of the Ethiopian capital,Addis Ababa, was just like the Kiteezi Garbage dumpsite on the northern edge of Kampala City. On a typical day, several trucks carrying waste from the city would …

What the inauguration of Kagame for another term told about the Rwanda he is building THE LAST WORD | Andrew M. Mwenda | And so it was that on August 11 we were in Kigali for President Paul Kagame’s inauguration. It happened that a well-known Rwandan with Ugandan roots hosted a wedding of …

Most noted are Antibiotics, antimalarial, and antihypertensive medicines ANALYSIS | THE INDEPENDENT | Up to 23% of medicines used in African medical facilities are either substandard or falsified. This includes medicines that do not meet quality specifications and are deliberately substandard or falsified and circulated in the market. Sadly, many substandard, …

Tensions as Katonga faction plans to dissolve party NEWS ANALYSIS | IAN KATUSIIME | News that the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) could be dissolved has caught many by surprise. A Delegates Conference organised by the Katonga faction slated for August 19 could seal the fate of what was once …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda’s private sector reported a continued growth of new orders running into the fourth month at the end of July marking the start of the third quarter. The upturn was widespread across all five monitored sectors, with firms linking the expansion to new client wins. …

It shows how sex testing in women’s sports puts regulators in an impossible bind ANALYSIS | JAIME SCHUITZ | In their preliminary 2024 Olympic women’s boxing match, Algeria’s Imane Khelif delivered a painful blow to the face of Italy’s Angela Carini, who abandoned the fight after 46 seconds. “I’ve never been …

Abuja, Nigeria | THE INDEPENDENT | Africa’s multilateral lender, the African Export-Import Bank, aims to double its financing of intra-African trade from $20 billion in 2021 to $40 billion by 2026. This announcement was made by Haytham ElMaayergi, the bank’s Executive Vice President, Global Trade Bank, during the African Caucus Meeting …

Watch the controversial ceremony carefully again and look out for its emancipatory meaning COMMENT | SLAVOJ ZIZEK | Two big cultural events this summer, the opening ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympics and the release of Deadpool & Wolverine, both offer dazzling spectacles saturated by irony. But that is about all …

Where colonialism of old was about seizing territory, techno-colonialism controls our daily lives COMMENT | HERMANN HAUSER & HAZEM DANNY NAKIB | In 1853, under orders from President Millard Fillmore, U.S. Navy Commodore Matthew Perry led four warships on a mission to persuade Japan to end its 200-year-old isolationist policy. When …

But political elites in Kenya and Uganda don’t give in without a fight against anti-corruption COMMENT | INGE AMUNDSEN | The recent protests by young people in Kenya and Uganda have highlighted a form of corruption that is difficult to deal with: political corruption. Compared to its cousin, administrative or bureaucratic …