At 62: Singapore innovates, Uganda struggles with waste management

The 62nd independence event is happening when Uganda’s economy is ailing with a worsening trade deficit at $ 247.93 million as of June 2024. 
This is in addition to projected debt by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) of $993 million, increasing inequalities in all forms, unemployment, and a predominantly primary commodity export basket. 

Tomorrow, Uganda will celebrate her 62nd independence. But what kind of economic independence will you be celebrating when, yet again, the country commemorates the end of decades of British colonial rule?  
 For about 70 years of colonial…