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Uganda

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  • Migrant works on a construction site in Qatar. Credit: ILO/Apex Image.
    EconomyTop storyUganda

    Our solidarity as Muslims must be with Qatar’s migrant workers

    By Yasin Kakande
    December 9, 2022
    Oppression and abuse is un-Islamic. We should call on FIFA and Qatar to compensate workers and their families for the abuses they sustained. During ...
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  • Bruce felt he had no other option but to return to classroom teaching after his job of school principal came with the warning that he may succumb to poisoning by someone envious of his position. Uganda. Credit: Edna Namara/GPJ.
    GPJSocietyUganda

    “The scare is real”: Prominent Ugandans fear poisoning

    By Edna Namara & Apophia Agiresaasi
    November 25, 2022
    More than 1,800 people have died of poisoning here since 2009. Now, school principals and MPs fear accepting food or drinks as threats rise. ...
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  • A truck carries people from South Sudan towards the border of West Nile region, Uganda. Credit: UNHCR / F. Noy.
    SocietyTop storyUganda

    Borders areas should be used, not feared, in pandemic responses

    By Innocent Anguyo & Elizabeth Storer
    October 13, 2022
    Uganda’s experience shows how communities near borders come up with effective strategies for disease control, while resisting disruptive state ones. As Uganda continues to ...
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  • A man holds an image one of the individuals who disappeared and is still missing at a rally in Uganda. Credit: NUP.
    Editor's PicksPoliticsUganda

    “Give us back our people”: the Ugandans who disappeared

    By Liam Taylor & Derrick Wandera
    October 12, 2022
    Senior officials claim not to know the whereabouts of individuals arrested nearly two years ago, as state abductions continue. On 23 August, Moses Bukenya ...
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  • A shot from a previous edition of the Nyege Nyege festival in Uganda. Credit: NYEGE NYEGE.
    CultureUganda

    Nyege Nyege, Uganda’s controversial but irresistible festival, is back on

    By Amos Ochieng
    September 15, 2022
    Why does the popular music festival keep getting banned and then un-banned? First staged in 2015, the globally touted Nyege Nyege Festival in Uganda ...
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  • Middy Amule, a woman trader, jokes with a man while having the bananas she sells transported from Busia, Uganda, to Busia, Kenya.
    EconomyGPJUganda

    “They want a sample”: Women traders’ perilous cross-border journey

    By Edna Namara
    September 2, 2022
    Taking informal routes to bypass checkpoints puts Ugandans at mercy of authorities who demand bribes, steal their wares – and worse. From the town ...
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  • Truck drivers have continued to pour soil to fill up wetland areas in Nsambya, Kampala, Uganda. Credit: Nangayi Guyson.
    Climate crisisEconomyEditor's PicksUganda

    “The rich are untouchable”: Uganda’s struggles to protect its wetlands

    By Nangayi Guyson
    September 1, 2022
    As communities and small businesses are cleared from environmentally precious zones, big companies expand unabated. Last week, state officials accompanied by security forces swept ...
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  • Norbert Mao, the leader of the Democratic Party (DP) , is now Uganda's Justice Minister. Credit: Chapter Four Uganda.
    PoliticsTop storyUganda

    Uganda: Is co-opting the opposition shrewd politics or a desperate ploy?

    By Michael Mutyaba
    August 10, 2022
    Uganda’s oldest opposition party is now allied to President Museveni’s NRM. Last month, one of the longest standing features of Uganda’s political landscape crumbled ...
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  • Evangelista Kanohili sits outside her home in Sheema, Uganda, March 15, 2022. Kanohili has been experiencing on-and-off infestations of jiggers, a small parasitic flea that burrows into the skin and can make it too painful to take care of daily tasks. Credit: Apophia Agiresaasi/Global Press Journal.
    GPJSocietyUganda

    Uganda: The tiny flea making it painful for people to walk and work

    By Apophia Agiresaasi
    June 24, 2022
    Authorities in western Uganda are battling an outbreak of jiggers that has hit several rural villages. Evangelista Kanohili sits on a mat on the ...
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  • #StopEACOP TotalEnergies Uganda Tanzania
    Climate crisisTanzaniaTop storyUganda

    The bold campaign to defund the East African Crude Oil Pipeline

    By Sophie Neiman
    June 22, 2022
    Activists have convinced 20 big banks not to finance the controversial oil project leaving its fate in the balance. This February, the heads of ...
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