By Allawi Ssemanda Figures from the Word Bank indicate that approximately, one billion people from Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia have no access to electricity. This is a huge barrier to socio-economic transformation of world’s significant population and has both direct and indirect effects on development efforts like slowing expansion of development indicators such as health, poverty reduction […]
By Nnanda Kizito Sseruwagi I was initially depressed when pondering this article. The crisis of Uganda’s roads depresses many of us. I don’t think it is necessary to explain or emphasize the wreckage of what used to be the roads and the dreams and potential we have lost economically and humanly with the loss of […]
By Nnanda Kizito Sseruwagi There is a competition. A spending competition. The spending is in trillion dollars. Developing countries are participants. Participating from an interesting position. Participating as recipients. Imagine that. Being at the receiving end of a spending competition! Whereas both foreign aid and development finance are projects that pursue development objectives in developing […]
By Salim Abila Asuman The nation breathes in a symphony of fiscal toxins, with each exhale dealing a crushing blow to its fragile economy. Loans of all kinds now sit on its people’s shoulders, tasked with bearing the weight of unjustified financial obligations. National debts, the financial chains binding governments come in various haunting forms […]
By Nnanda Kizito Sseruwagi Probably you have heard about it. Probably not. What is it? Let us first understand what it isn’t. Many initiatives from China suffer from being misunderstood, even at the highest echelons of policy experts around the world. This is due to the saturation in public media internationally by Western propaganda and […]
By Steven Akabwayi When I was researching China’s policy on climate, a friend of mine recommended to me a book titled “China Urban Evolution by Austin Williams”, in the book, Austin writes about the mythological China character known as “Yu the Great”, Yu was a founder of the Zia dynasty between 2100 to 1600 BC, […]
By Steven Akabwayi In 2013, Chinese President Xi Jinping launched the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) which emerged to be one of the most significant and greatest projects of the 21st century according to experts. By June 2023, over 152 countries and organizations had signed agreements related to BRI including the African Union as bloc. […]
By Steven Akabwayi “Uganda and China have established deep-rooted and unshakable political mutual trust that have seen remarkable achievements in bilateral Economic Cooperation” These were President Museveni’s remarks in 2019 in an interview with People’s Daily an official Newspaper of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). After approving the national vision statement […]
By Allawi Ssemanda Last week, the world leaders gathered in Chinese capital Beijing as leaders from over 150 countries, and representatives of international organisations met in Beijing for the Third Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation. The event also marked 10 years of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Jointly implemented by participating partners, […]
By Allawi Ssemanda On average, an African woman spend up to 5 hours per day collecting firewood. A study funded by Finnish ministry of foreign affairs on Modern Cooking Facility for Africa (MCFA) contends this prevents women and young girls from engaging in productive economic activities, school and at times exposes them to physical violence. […]