Many refuse to contemplate today’s bleak prospects, just as liberals in 1933 predicted that Hitler would quickly fail COMMENT | MARK JONES | On January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany. To his supporters, it was a day of “national revolution” and rebirth. Germany, they believed, needed the …
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The UK, long famed for exporting its values of liberty, is about to cross the Rubicon with the Rwanda Bill COMMENT | GORDON BROWN | Last month, UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak made an astonishing admission: the United Kingdom would have all but abandoned the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) …
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A new type of South-to-South joint program promotes standards through mutually accredited joint programs COMMENT | XIAOYAN LIANG & COSAM JOSEPH | A common challenge faced by Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) institutions is their inability to adapt curriculum and program standards that align with the evolving needs of …
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Consider how the world has divided into rigid camps as the Gaza catastrophe has unfolded COMMENT | MICHAEL IGNATIEFF | Seventy-five years ago this week, United Nations member states meeting in Paris adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It was not a binding law, only a statement of principle. But …
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It would ensure security, work towards reconstruction and to lay the foundations for stability and development COMMENT | JULIEN TOURREILLE | The massacre perpetrated against Israel by Hamas on Oct. 7 opened a new chapter in the tragedy that is the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. For more than 75 years, too many opportunities …
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COMMENT | JAPHET ARITHO | As we step into the new year, it’s imperative to reflect on the lessons learned from the past month, a period marked by joyous celebrations but also overshadowed by the grim reality of road accidents in Uganda. The festive season of December 2023, much like …
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Demand for goods and services expected to surge as continent’s middle class spend hits US$2.5 trillion by 2030 COMMENT | MARGARET SOI | The purchasing power of Africa’s middle class is expected to grow significantly in the coming years: the continent’s middle class is expected to spend US$2.1 trillion by …
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But those on both sides of the war who want peace have long known what needs to be done COMMENT | BERNARD HAYKEL | Following the end of the recent weeklong ceasefire, Israel has resumed its war in Gaza, and dropped leaflets urging Palestinians to head toward the Rafah border crossing …
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Tapping into its vast genomic research potential will require steady investment, capacity-building, and collaboration COMMENT | COLLEN MASIMIREMBWA | Africa is the continent with the most genetic diversity, but is gravely underrepresented in genomic research, with only 2% of global genomic data coming from people of African ancestry as of 2021. …
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The prize and perils for the next occupant of the hottest seat in Uganda’s private independent media sector COMMENT | JOSEPH WERE | Monitor Publications Ltd is again managing director hunting after Tony Glencross announced he was leaving after eight years in the hot seat. Watching the coming and going of …
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