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OPINION: The Patriot’s Focus on Uganda’s Unemployment Question

Article By, Gad Kanyesigye_The Patriot_ a community empowerment advocate.  To begin with, many Ugandan parents are not business-oriented, which is a significant reason why their children often finish school...

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...

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...

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...

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...

IS M23 RECRUITING REFUGEES IN UGANDA? AFC/M23 Rebel Leader David Baraka Elonga Arrested in Kyangwali Settlement

A high ranking official of the armed M23 rebel movement has been arrested by police for recruiting Congolese refugees in Kyangwali Refugee Settlement in...

UPDF BRUTALITY CITED IN DR CONGO-UGANDA BORDER CLOSURE

Authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo-DRC have temporarily closed the border with Uganda in Nkuringo town council Bukimbiri constituency in western Uganda,...

AL-SHABAAB BUULO MAREER SOMALIA ATTACK: 2 UPDF COMMANDERS SACKED FOR COWARDICE

The General Court Martial has sentenced two Uganda People’s Defence Force-UPDF commanders to dismissal with disgrace from the army for cowardice and running away...

INSIDE PRESIDENT MUSEVENI’S NATIONAL ADDRESS AMID TERROR THREATS

President Yoweri Tibuhaburwa Kaguta Museveni has assured Ugandans that security agencies are working tirelessly to eliminate the Allied Democratic Forces-ADF, as he addressed the...

TERROR THREATS IN UGANDA: PRESIDENT MUSEVENI TO ADDRESS THE COUNTRY TODAY

President Yoweri Tibuhaburwa Kaguta Museveni will address the country today evening on matters relating to security, the Presidential Press Unit (PPU) has confirmed. “President...

HOW 15 SUSPECTS ESCAPED FROM RWAMPARA POLICE CELL

Police and other security agencies in Rwampara district and western Uganda at large are hunting for 15 male suspects who escaped from a police...