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Competition for the few available jobs in Uganda is pushing the young and old to the wall. Pressure mounted by the young university graduates who seek jobs, recently made President Yoweri Museveni to call for reduction of the retirement age from 55 years to 50 in order to create job […]

“Youth’s energy, innovation and talent, can only bring the best for Egypt if it is targeted in the right direction,” Nahla Zeitoun of UNDP tells Future Challenges. Programme Analyst at the UNDP Democratic Governance unit in Cairo, Nahla Zeitoun likes to compare democracy to playing music. “Musicians ought to practice […]

In 2005 Robert Guest wrote an article in the Telegraph comparing South  Korea and Kenya and the reason why South Korea overtook Kenya in terms of economic growth. The title of the article is in form of a question and a straight simple answer. Why has South Korea overtaken Kenya? […]

In the developed world, communication has been easier as everyone in one way or another has a telephone line even before the coming of mobile phones and internet. The same could not be said about Africa. Up to around the year 2000, only offices within major urban centres had telephone lines. […]

Julius Nyerere, the first Prime Minister of Tanzania (then Tanganyika) is believed to have been the first prominent politician to discuss the idea of East African Integration. In 1960, when he spoke on the subject, the East African countries Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda had not yet gained independence. When they […]