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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | James Onyutta, Managing Director, of FINCA Uganda, gathering data about customer preferences, market trends, and industry dynamics, can help businesses make decisions based on facts rather than assumptions or intuition. “Using research has opened our eyes to many opportunities and helped us solve numerous business …

But there is a wide range of cognitive performance within each chronotype ANALYSIS | AGENCIES | A person’s chronotype defines what time of the day a person is most active based on their sleeping patterns. For example, are you the type of person who wakes up early and is most active …

The airline has announced Abuja, Lusaka and Harare as new flight destination effective September this year Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda Airlines is stepping up competition against Ethiopian Airlines, Kenya Airways, and RwandAir with the launch of new flights to Abuja in Nigeria, Lusaka in Zambia, and Harare in …

How it has upended the US election race and what happens next ANALYSIS | LESTER MUNSON | It is tempting to draw grand conclusions from the July 13 assassination attempt on former president Donald Trump. The coarse rhetoric currently in vogue in American politics, not to mention the Capitol riot on …

Experts say that could lead to coups ANALYSIS | THE INDEPENDENT | Governments that allocate substantial resources to the military can inadvertently increase the political power of the military. “This will in turn lower both civilian control and oversight and increase the risk of an unconstitutional change of government (coups),”says Nan …

In the face of growing repression, Ugandans continue to find new and creative ways to combat the entrenched system of state capture ANALYSIS | MICHELLE GAVIN | Ugandans have limited options when it comes to holding their political leaders accountable. Elections in the country have grown less and less credible over …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda Breweries in partnership with the Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) has commissioned a Shs130m new sanitation block in Bukoto market, one of the suburbs of Kampala which currently has a population of about 500 people. This newly commissioned block is intended for use by …

The prosecution and likely conviction of a popular, respected, charismatic author, will probably backfire COMMENT | SHASHI THAROOR | Last month, the lieutenant governor of Delhi granted the police permission to prosecute Indian activist and prize-winning author Arundhati Roy under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA). Back in 2010, Roy said …

Phytosanitary programme intends to equip all 54 countries with technology and technical capacity ANALYSIS | RONALD MUSOKE | Agriculture and its related value chains drive most economies across the continent, contributing about 40%  to Africa’s GDP and 15% of its exports, 75% to its intra-African trade, and 60-80% of employment. But the …

Rwandans show love for the president with 99% victory in election but uncertainty looms on future without him COVER STORY | IAN KATUSIIME | Thirty years since he led the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) to capture power in Kigali after ending the genocide against the Tutsi, Rwandan President Paul Kagame was …