PRIME Uganda’s Idi Amin and the East African act UNGA New York will never forget When he took the stage, Amin basically tore up the speech to the ambassador’s horror, freewheeling it in the way only he could and doing something few leaders had dared.
PRIME Oh, all the crude we could refine with the cash from the deportees Uganda should stop wasting time and take 50,000 deportees ... In exchange, Uganda receives $5 billion.
PRIME Trump is afraid of Epstein; here we fear something else altogether The White House of Donald J Trump is in yet another tussle with the media.
PRIME Shut the door on tainted leaders, make UNGA more meaningful The UNGA is in danger of becoming a stage for tainted leaders to launder themselves to the international community.
PRIME Reports of Ruto govt’s successes have been greatly exaggerated His constant and audacious claim is that he is transforming Kenya and positioning the country for a Singapore-like leap forward.
PRIME Gender (im)balance: When women stage a quiet coup and take over everything In societies where educated women were rare, men routinely married women with less education. Nobody gave it much thought. Turn that around, and the old arrangements begin to strain.
PRIME US, Israel, Palestine: A day is coming; it’s near, prepare for it! In the fullness of time, not only Israel, but also the United States, will have to reckon with a world that is no longer tied to American whims and caprices.
PRIME Chase non-locals from here? It can’t, er, you know, happen here! When you drive through Kampala city’s southeastern sector, you are equally likely to encounter an Eastern African foreigner as you are meeting a Ugandan.
PRIME Celebrate a death? We’re in a big hole, and we seem not to know Bad news affecting someone you do not like is to be celebrated, a very dangerous reminder that if given an opportunity without consequence, we would have caused what we celebrate.
PRIME We’re in EAC until Dangote’s and Alpha’s refinery do us apart The EAC’s petroleum story shows how integration can quietly die, one national refinery announcement at a time.
