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EU Keeps Escalating Against Russia as NATO Crumbles – How Africa Will Pay the Price

Aaron Ainomugisha.  Imagine you are a farmer in Senegal or a truck driver in Kenya. You have never been to Donbas. You do not care who controls Lyman. But...

Inside White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting

Credit Al Jazeera. Donald Trump has been rushed out of the White House correspondents’ dinner at a hotel...

Are CSOs In Uganda Under Attack?

The Financial Intelligence Authority (FIA) has frozen bank accounts belonging to several non-governmental organisations operating in Uganda as...

LETTER TO PRESIDENT MUSEVENI: Akandwanaho Joshua Israel – NRM Flag Bearer & Former Contestant For Worker’s MP 2026-2031

The President of Uganda and Chairman of NRM-PARTY. Your Excellency President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni State House Kampala, Uganda Your Excellency, As I...

Inside the July session of 2026 UN High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development-HLPF

SDGs Knowledge Hub. The UN Secretariat has published the programme for the July session of the 2026 UN...

IN-DEPTH: GENDER INEQUALITY AS KEY POPULATIONS SEEKING HIV CARE CHOKE ON UGANDA’S ANTI-HOMOSEXUALITY ACT 2023

On 26th May 2023, President Yoweri Museveni assented to Uganda’s new Anti-Homosexuality Act (AHA 2023), prompting some organizations and individuals to run to court...

UGANDA’S NEW ANTI-LGBTQIA+ ACT 2023: WORLD BANK SUSPENDS PUBLIC FINANCING TO UGANDA

The World Bank on Tuesday, August 8, 2023 released a statement on Uganda’s new war against sexual and gender minorities, following the passage of...

INSIDE UGANDA’S CASE BACKLOG AND CONGESTED PRISONS

Authorities at Bushenyi government prison (Nyamushekyera prison) have decried congestion at the facility which has increased health risks for prisoners especially women. Located in Bushenyi...

LGBTQIA+ Rights in Africa: Will Kenya be the latest to pass Anti-homosexuality Law?

CREDIT - Catherine Byaruhanga,BBC News, Nairobi. In the latest sign of rising homophobia in different African countries, a Kenyan opposition MP...

FRANCE PROTESTS: Thousands defy bans to rally against police brutality

ADDITIONAL REPORTING – AL JAZEERA. Thousands of French protesters have defied a ban to march in central Paris against police brutality, a week...

LGBTQIA+ CLAIMS: RWENZORI WEST & FORT PORTAL EAST POLICE HUNTING FOR A 37-YEAR-OLD PATRON

The Territorial Police in Rwenzori West and Fort Portal East division is actively hunting for Ssali Joash,37,a patron to a P.3 pupil aged 9...