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  • GMOs in Uganda? Nalwoga Mary picks coffee berries from a tree in her farm in Wakiso, Uganda. Credit: Nakisanze Segawa/GPJ.
    ClimateEconomyGPJKenyaUganda

    “Economic bondage”: E Africa farmers worry over what GMOs might mean

    By Nakisanze Segawa
    May 26, 2023
    While proponents of genetic modification say it can increase yields, researchers point out that Africa already grows enough food.  Outside her brick house in ...
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  • OPINIONTop storyUganda

    Open letter from leading scientists and academics to President Museveni: “the science is clear – homosexuality is natural and normal”

    By Various co-signatories
    April 20, 2023
    Dear President Museveni, You recently made a call for a scientific opinion to establish if homosexuality is natural, or learned – to help you ...
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  • Bob Barigye, an enviromental activist, in the capital, Kampala. Photo by John Okot.
    ClimateEditor's PicksPoliticsUganda

    “Enemies of the state”: Uganda targets climate activists in quiet crackdown

    By John Okot
    March 16, 2023
    Activists say the government is using arrests and psychological torture to avoid signs of abuse that could lead to bad publicity for EACOP investors. ...
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  • St Charles Lwanga (01/01/1860 - 03/06/1886), chief of the royal pages and major domo to Kabaka Mwanga II. Martyred seven months after converting to Catholicism. Photo courtesy: Rachel Strohm, Namugongo, 2014.
    OPINIONPoliticsTop storyUganda

    Well-funded Riddles: Notes from Uganda’s sexual culture war

    By Kalundi Serumaga
    March 15, 2023
    As Christians fall out over gay rights, the Ugandan state, built on martyrs resisting alleged homosexuality, has some soul-searching to do. The journalist’s approach ...
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  • Editor's PicksPoliticsUganda

    Unpacking the geopolitics of Uganda’s anti-gay bill

    By Kristof Titeca
    March 10, 2023
    As the Church rages against Canterbury, Museveni’s authoritarian regime might be the last guarantor of sexual minority rights. On 1 March, 2023 the Ugandan ...
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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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