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How Africa is facing disproportionate burden from climate change and adaptation costs

By World Meteorological Organization. Africa bears an increasingly heavy burden from climate change and disproportionately high costs for essential climate adaptation, according to a new report from the World...

MINISTER JIM MUHWEZI & NRM MOBILIZER PEACE RUGAMBWA WRANGLE DEEPENS

Western Uganda. Rukungiri district controversial NRM mobiliser, Peace Rugambwa is nursing injuries after she was reportedly attacked and...

How Hackers Stole Ugx62 billion from Bank of Uganda

Authorities in Uganda are investigating circumstances under which hackers stole Ugx62 billion ($17 million) in a sophisticated manner. Sources...

AFRICA: Can Green Technology Training Curb Unemployment?

Elias Ngalame. African climate stakeholders have called for more green technology training in specialized higher education institutions as...

INSIDE STORY: Kizza Besigye and Hajj Obed Lutale ‘Kidnapped’ in Kenya,Remanded by Ugandan Military Court

Uganda’s opposition leader, Dr Kizza Besigye and his colleague, Hajj Obed Lutale, have been remanded to Luzira Prison...

UGANDA: HOW A QUACK DOCTOR INNOCENT SSEMANDA OF CLEVELAND SPECIALISED WOMEN’S CLINIC HAS TERRORIZED PATIENTS FOR YEARS

This story exposes a fake Dr Innocent Ssemanda of Cleveland Specialised Women’s Clinic Wampewo,Wakiso in Uganda who has terrorized patients for years. This imposter whose...

MARBURG VIRUS OUTBREAK: 8 Killed in Rwanda as Authorities Limits Funeral Sizes

BBC. Authorities in Rwanda have restricted funeral sizes for victims of Marburg virus in an effort to curb an outbreak of the highly contagious...

FIGHTING HIV/AIDS: Uganda to receive 10,000 doses of Cabotegravir injectable drug

Uganda's Ministry of Health has announced plans to introduce a long-acting injectable HIV prevention drug, known as Cabotegravir (CAB-LA), from September 2024. The injectable HIV...

UGANDA: Why are young women and girls abandoning life-saving HIV treatment?

Health experts and HIV/AIDS activists in Uganda are concerned over the increasing number of young women and girls in care who are abandoning antiretroviral...

ENDING AIDS BY 2030: Gender Inequalities & Human Rights Violations Increasing Children & Women’s Vulnerability to HIV 

It is unfinished business, and only the urgent and accelerated delivery of HIV services will keep the promise of ending AIDS in children by...

UGANDA: How HIV-positive young women and girls have abandoned ARVs

Health experts in Mbarara City and other parts of western Uganda have expressed concern over the increasing number of  people living with HIV abandoning...