Philosophers have understood how demagogues come to power in free and fair elections, only to overthrow democracy and establish tyrannical rule COMMENT | JASON STANLEY | Like others, since late Tuesday night (November 5), my phone has been blaring with text messages asking how this could have happened (as some of …
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In the US, Democrats tend to misunderstand how most of the public view them and underestimate the strength and durability of their opponents’ appeal COMMENT | SHLOMO BEN-AMI | During the just-concluded US election campaign, I did not follow opinion polls, pore over “evidence-based” predictions, or read “expert” analyses of the …
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It cannot measure the health of the economy as it doesn’t reflect the health of people or the planet COMMENT | RADHIKA BALAKRISHNAN | Economics and economic policy need a rethink. This is clear from the scale of inequality, joblessness, insecurity and environmental disasters we see in the world. People feel …
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For Africa, BRICS is not just a partnership but an opportunity that must be seized now COMMENT | IQBAL SURVE & SESONA MDLOKOVANA | As BRICS convened its pivotal summit, in Kazan, Russia, Africa stands on the brink of an unparalleled opportunity. This meeting is not just a gathering of global …
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A deeply divided world has stepped into a modern colosseum; who will emerge victorious from this battle? COMMENT | SALIH KAYA | It is quite common for us to forget the recent past. Just as in the greatest stages of humankind’s history, the West once applauded the arrival of a new …
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The sight of their big-size job-seeking envelopes shouldn’t be a laughing matter in the corridors of City Hall COMMENT | JOSEPH WERE | The process of hiring replacements for the dismissed KCCA officials appears to be on and lists purporting to be of aspirants who have applied to fill the vacancies …
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The initiative by the High-level Mediation on South Sudan is an African solution to an African problem COMMENT | DAK BUOTH RIEK GAAK | The famous phrase known as “African solutions to African problems” is an intellectual and political concept whose origin can be traced back to the 1990s at the …
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Eliminating neglected tropical diseases will reduce drug resistance – a win for all COMMENT | FRANCISCA MUTAPI | A major health challenge of our time is when drugs no longer work to treat infections. This happens when the agents that cause infections – they may be bacteria, viruses or fungi – …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Hours after Andrew Mwenda, print, radio and television journalist, who is also founder and owner of The Independent, penned a comment that responded to human rights lawyer Nicholas Opiyo’s tweet on CDF General Muhoozi Kainerugaba, all hell broke lose on X. One of the first …
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The response to the current mpox outbreak in Central Africa suggests that we have not learned the lessons of COVID-19 COMMENT | NGOZI OKONJO-IWEALA | It feels like a movie we have already seen. A new viral strain is killing people in some of the world’s poorest countries, and although vaccines against …
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