The Endless Fraud at Equity Bank
Despite its mission to provide inclusive financial services and expand wealth-creation opportunities across Africa, Equity Bank has repeatedly been hit by fraud scandals across its major markets, including Kenya, Uganda, and Rwanda. The bank also operates in South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and Tanzania. Each incident tends
Iran: Nuclear Justice and Peace
Part One: Introduction At the heart of the ongoing struggle of the Islamic Republic of Iran against imperialism is its right to non-negotiable national sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity. It includes the right to peaceful nuclear power as a means to a modern, industrial, technological, 6G-Plus, and knowledge-based economy. In
Ashish Monpara Vanishes as URA Cracks Down on Impounded Kaliro Sugar
Ashish Monpara, Chairman and Founder of the Modern Group of Industries, is reportedly on the run after Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) seized consignments of sugar from his Kaliro Sugar Company for lacking activated Digital Tax Stamps (DTS). The seizures, carried out on Thursday, January 29, 2026, took place in Soroti
Inside Shs 8 billion expired drugs at National Medical Stores
Drugs worth Shs 8.04 billion are reported to have expired at the National Medical Stores (NMS), Daily Star can reliably report. The expiries were mainly attributed to misalignment between the country’s medicine needs and what was procured, as well as changes in treatment protocols by the World Health Organisation (WHO)
The New World – beyond Venezuela – Greater opportunity for greater change
What was the primary purpose of USA military invasion of Venezuela? Dramatic demonstration of inhuman military power; or Oil. Military power President Trump deceptively uses an ‘easy-going’ style of leadership. But he takes ironclad direction from the Pentagon military leadership in compliance with the National Security Strategy (NSS) of 2025,
Court quashes Besigye’s Bail application, Orders Him to Take Plea
Former presidential candidate Dr. Kizza Besigye has again been denied bail, with court directing that he first takes plea on the charges levelled against him. The High Court judge Emmanuel Baguma also declined to halt the criminal trial pending the determination of a Constitutional Court petition challenging the proceedings. However, the
COP30: climate justice is material to all civilizations
COP30 Belem, Brazil 2025 produced a voluntary ‘Action Agenda’ for civil society, governments, businesses, and others to intensify ‘climate adaptation’, emission reductions, and transition to sustainable economies. It has its legal basis in COP21 Paris Agreement 2015. Mother Earth and human labour are the parents of wealth. They are the
Behind Bars: The 303 Children Who Call Prison Home
In the quiet corners of Uganda’s prisons, 303 children wake up each morning to the sound of keys and metal gates not alarm clocks or school bells. They live with their mothers behind bars, their childhoods unfolding in places built for punishment, not play. According to the Uganda Prisons Service
Palestine: the delusion of two-state solution
The need for a real solution rooted in history UNGA-80 convened under the theme “Better together: 80 years and more for peace, development, and human rights”. The focus was on the recognition of the two-state solution for Palestine. Land as the national question The two-state solution means the apportionment of
Alaska Summit: lessons for Iran-plus nations – Part 2
Managing shifts of uncertainty in geopolitics Recap of Part 1 The 12-Day War (13-24 June 2025) of aggression against the Islamic Republic of Iran by USA/Israel began the periodisation of a new history of the final phase of the defeat of imperialism and Zionism in West Asia. While the War
