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Environment / Climate

Africa’s Anti-LGBT+ Laws: A big setback in the fight against HIV/AIDS

Progressive voices across the world will have to double their efforts in countering the escalating threats to LGBT+ people in Africa amid wave of repressive laws. Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Act (AHA)...

CLIMATE CRISIS: Floods kill 72 in Tanzania, Kenya & Uganda as Heavy Rains Persist

Floods have killed 58 people in Tanzania and 13 in Kenya over the last two weeks, as heavy...

HOW UGANDAN MARKET WOMEN ARE THRIVING AMID CHALLENGES

In 1990, Ms. Jane Bigirwa lost her husband, becoming a young widow at the age of 26. She...

UGANDA’S NEW ANTI-HOMOSEXUALITY ACT 2023: SRHR EXPERTS CONCERNED AS LGBTQIA+ PEOPLE SHUN HEALTH FACILITIES  

Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights-SRHR experts in Uganda have expressed concern over LGBTQIA+ people shunning health facilities...

International Day of Forests: Innovation & Forest Conservation

The International Day of Forests has been celebrated annually since it was established on March 21, 2012 by...

SAVE RIVER RWIZI: Locals & key stakeholders call for strict enforcement

“Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.” – British-American poet Wystan Hugh Auden (RIP). River Rwizi, that used to be a beautiful river...

The WORRYING state of RIVER RWIZI

Activists & concerned citizens want the government & partners to up the game in restoration of River Rwizi to avert water scarcity,and other environmental...