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World Bank to implement LGBTQ safeguards before resuming new Uganda funding

The World Bank will aim to ensure gay and transgender Ugandans are not discriminated against in its programmes before resuming new funding, which was halted in August over an anti-LGBTQ law, a bank executive said.

Radio France Internationale

Used clothing from the West is a big seller in East Africa. Uganda's leader wants a ban

The Owino Market in Uganda's capital has long been a go-to enclave for rich and poor people alike looking for affordable but quality-made used clothes, underscoring perceptions that Western fashion is superior to what is made at home

The Independent UK

A Ugandan business turns banana fiber into sustainable handicrafts

A decapitated banana plant is almost useless, an inconvenience to the farmer who must uproot it and lay its dismembered parts as mulch

The Independent UK

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Uganda party says leader Bobi Wine detained; police say escorted him home

The opposition leader is longtime President Yoweri Museveni’s strongest political challenger.

Al Jazeera

Environmental groups sue TotalEnergies over 'devastating' East Africa oil pipeline

Four environmental groups have filed a law suit against the French group TotalEnergies and its EACOP oil project in Tanzania and Uganda. They maintain that it threatens the region's fragile ecosystem and the people who live there.

Radio France Internationale

Uganda accuses ICC official of funding Lord's Resistance Army

Uganda is investigating allegations that a former senior advisor to the International Criminal Court was involved in funding the notorious Lord's Resistance Army.

Radio France Internationale

‘Difficult, time-consuming and painful’: Nihiloxica on the ‘hell’ of touring the UK

Punitive UK visa restrictions have added extra fire to the already blazing sound of British-Ugandan drum and doom outfit Nihiloxica

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Israel’s MASHAV: A Legacy Of Development In Africa

MASHAV, Israel's Agency for International Development Cooperation, continues to make a difference in Africa through capacity building and sustainable projects.

Zenger

Kidnapped and forced to marry their rapist: ending ‘courtship rape’ in Uganda

In Karamoja, one of the country’s poorest regions, schoolgirls face forced sex and abduction as an accepted route to marriage

The Guardian - UK

Morocco to be 2025 AFCON host as 2027 goes to Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania

In tonight's edition: Morocco is picked to host the Africa Cup of Nations in 2025. The 2027 tournament is jointly awarded to East African neighbours Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. Also, the French ambassador to Niger returns to Paris after weeks of tension following a coup two months ago that demanded…

France 24

In Uganda, scramble for land intensifies in fields surrounding Kampala

Urban expansion and the commodification of land are driving disputes in areas near the Ugandan capital.

Al Jazeera

How NPR covered the missionary who ran a center for malnourished kids where 105 died

In 2019, NPR covered the story of Renee Bach, who said she was called by God to serve the children of Uganda. Now HBO is presenting her story in the documentary series 'Savior Complex.'

WEKU

Somaliland rejects talk of unification with Somalia after Museveni comment

Somaliland says it has no plans to discuss unity with Somalia despite Uganda’s talk of acting as ‘unification mediator’.

Al Jazeera

‘Latest wave of colonialism’: how dangerous is the white savior complex?

New docuseries delves into the case of Renee Bach, the white missionary who tasked herself with managing a clinic in Uganda with no medical training

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The Independent UK

Uganda's president says airstrikes killed 'a lot' of rebels with ties to Islamic State in Congo

Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni says recent airstrikes against rebels with ties to the Islamic State group in eastern Congo have killed “a lot” of the militants, possibly including a notorious bomb maker

The Conversation

Wild animals leave DNA on plants, making them easier to track – here’s what scientists found in a Ugandan rainforest

The world is losing animals at an alarming rate due to habitat degradation, climate change and illegal human activities in the wildlife protected areas. In fact, it is estimated that, by 2100, more than half of Africa’s bird and mammal species could be lost.

The Conversation

Yoweri Museveni: ageing Uganda president rides on the memory of his past heroics

President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni – Africa’s fourth-longest-serving head of state in 2023 – has cemented his place in history. He brought an end to two tyrannies: in 1979 his militia helped to oust Idi Amin’s famously bloody regime; and in the 1980s his army won a guerrilla campaign against the…

Zenger

Court Ruling Seeking Proof Of Adultery Sparks Debate Among Christians In Uganda

The ruling emphasizes proof of adultery in order for courts to grant a divorce

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Hunger and hope: Africans tell of desperation and innovation as climate summit meets

As delegates in Nairobi debate the havoc that climate crisis has wreaked on the continent, we speak to people finding new ways to feed themselves in Kenya, Uganda and South Africa

Zenger

Ugandan Pastor’s Conviction Highlights Problem The Rise In Ritual Sacrifice

After pleading guilty to murder, a Ugandan pastor was sentenced to life in prison for killing a 4-year-old kid in a ritual murder.

The Guardian - UK

Once Upon a Time in Uganda review – celebrating the simple joy of exploding heads on film

Cathryne Czubek’s documentary about an impoverished film-maker and an American superfan veers towards a white saviour narrative but the low-budget movie mogul’s charisma wins out

WEKU

Ernest Hemingway survived 2 plane crashes. His letter from it just sold for $237,055

The novelist and his wife survived successive crashes in Uganda in 1954. In the letter, Hemingway also describes shooting his first lion in Kenya with an old gun "held together with tape."

The Conversation

Climate change will affect hydropower -- African countries must be prepared

Hydropower provides clean electricity to millions in Africa. It’s the largest source of renewable energy on the continent and accounts for nearly one quarter of total electricity generation in sub-Saharan Africa. Some countries, however, have a much heavier reliance on it than others. For instance, hydropower accounts for at least…

WEKU

Uganda starts charging people under extreme anti-LGBTQ law, raising execution fears

Two men in Uganda are the first to be charged with "aggravated homosexuality" under a harsh new law that carries the death penalty. Their cases highlight the threats for LGBTQ+ people in Uganda.

The Independent UK

A Ugandan man is charged with aggravated homosexuality, and faces the death penalty

Ugandan authorities have charged a man with aggravated homosexuality, which carries a possible death sentence

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