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UGANDA: 4 out of 10 children suffer stunted growth due to malnutrition

Locals in Isingiro district,western Uganda and other parts of the country have been challenged to embrace better feeding for children. ALSO READ - POLIO ERADICATION: Kenya and Uganda cross-border polio vaccination...
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A Polio Survivor Turns His Disability into a Powerful Plea for Vaccination

CREDIT - UNICEF, DRC.  Rajabu Vampise deftly manoeuvres his wheelchair through the backstreets of Kindu in the Democratic...
Social Justice

INSIDE THE COLONIAL LEGACY OF HOMOPHOBIA IN MODERN-DAY UGANDA

By Hyowon Park , International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA).  In March 2023, the Ugandan...
Environment / Climate

DR Congo’s Reliance on Charcoal threatens Forests and Fuels Armed Conflict

Elodie Toto - KANYARUCHINYA, Democratic Republic of Congo. Amid a circle of spectators, a troupe of performers takes...
Environment / Climate

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...

MAJ (RTD) DORAH KUTESA: FROM NRA COMBATANT TO DIPLOMAT

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The story of Maj (Rtd) Dorah Kutesa, the National Resistance Army-NRA combatant turned diplomat is engrossing. She joined NRA clandestine work in 1981, and...

UNTOLD AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY: Over a million at the bottom of Atlantic ocean

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THE UNTOLD HISTORY,Rise News Uganda.  There are over a million Africans at the bottom of the Atlantic ocean. They were not Americans or Brazilians,...
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