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The devil lies in the complicated negotiations for implementation | Yinka Adegoke | May 30, 2019 was a notable date in African economic history as the day the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) came into effect, after which it comes to market on July 7. In a nutshell, it …

Why it must be driven by consumers | Arie Havelaar & Ashagrie Zewdu Woldegiorgis | Dirty food kills about 140 000 people every year, and leaves 91 million more suffering from diarrhoea, tapeworm, hepatitis and even dysentery and typhoid in Africa. Many of the pathogens and foods at the centre …

Local consumers and businesses – not the exporting countries – will pay the price Kampala, Uganda | ISAAC KHISA | The good news coming from the Nakawa-based Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) is that local firms, will effective July this year, be protected from external competition as government increases taxes on …

Where people, values, mentalities and habits create pure harmony THE INDEPENDENT | ANDREW M. MWENDA | In February and March of this year, I visited Japan and travelled extensively across that country’s major cities – from Tokyo to Kyoto and Hiroshima to Osaka, the commercial capital of Japan. I was …

But does his defiance hurt help FDC or IPOD? Kampala, Uganda | AGATHER ATUHAIRE | Lydia Wanyoto knows how to kill boredom and keep stress away. Dance. And she did exactly that on May 20 at the Protea Hotel in Entebbe when President Yoweri Museveni kept delegates to the 2nd …

Why cabinet matters more than parliament | Melinda Adams & John Scherpereel | How do we know whether women are achieving equitable levels of political representation? For many years, scholars have focused on women’s representation in legislatures. But in many African states power is in fact concentrated in the executive …

An assessment of the President’s annual speech Kampala, Uganda | IAN KATUSIIME | A lot has happened in the last one year; the standoff between Uganda and Rwanda has escalated into a full-blown crisis and there are fears over what could happen anytime due to the tension at the common …

Why, in spite of our continued poverty, there is good reason to celebrate our gains as we plan ahead THE LAST WORD | ANDREW M. MWENDA | Last week, President Yoweri Museveni gave his State of the Nation (SOTN) speech. He gave interesting facts about Uganda’s economy, which many of …

  It’s Total disaster Kampala, Uganda | HAGGAI MATSIKO | Uganda’s oil sector has been thrown into another toss up after President Yoweri Museveni cancelled a highly anticipated meeting on June 05 between him and oil production company executives; The Independent can exclusively report. The meeting was to be a …

The conflicts of the Middle East, Asia’s emergence, and the demise of the world that we knew COMMENT | RICHARD N. HAASS | This is my 100th column for Project Syndicate. It comes nearly 20 years after my first. As is the case with most milestones, it offers a good …