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The reign of terror under Idi Amin left thousands of Ugandans killed in a methodical and capricious manner led by his notorious intelligence outfits—the State Research Bureau (SRB) and the ...

It was during Father’s Day of 2016 when Tom Voltaire Okwalinga shared a moment with his Facebook audience that felt very raw. There was an innocence and a truthfulness to ...

The second edition of the MOSIP Create initiative has successfully concluded, spotlighting innovative, market-ready solutions that leverage digital identity to improve access, inclusion, and empowerment. The 2026 edition focused on four critical ...

As African countries accelerate digital transformation and invest in large-scale identification systems, questions about sustainability, trust, governance, and long-term public value are becoming increasingly urgent. Policymakers, technologists and civil society ...

African governments have been urged to move beyond pilot projects and develop a Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) that is open, secure, nationally owned and capable of operating at a full ...

That the right to privacy is joined at the hip with the concept of human dignity is a no-brainer. Human dignity, which centuries ago had a denotative and connotative meaning ...

There was a media scrum after Jenifer Bamuturaki indicated that she was willing to field questions at the lobby of the House. It was August of 2022 and the chief ...

In a 1789 letter to Jean-Baptiste Le Roy, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America, Benjamin Franklin, wrote of the new Constitution as, “now established, and ...

It is the worst thing to experience; except you do not experience it at all. Well, at least first-hand. Not that such an outcome cushions what is by all accounts ...

The spectre of enforced disappearances continues to haunt the East African region and specifically Uganda, as terror networks hiding in unmarked vehicles purr across neighbourhoods, hunting down regime opponents and ...