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Greatest AfricansAfricaEducationJoburgSouth AfricaGreatest AfricansUganda will invest $205 million in restoring an old railway line linking Kampala to Malaba on the Kenyan border following delays in securing funding for the standard gauge railway.The upgraded meter gauge railway line is expected to boos...
·almost 5 years ago
It may soon be harder to cross the border into any East African country without a yellow fever certificate if a new policy to reintroduce the stringent measures of old is adopted.According to the new guidelines, East Africans planning to...
·almost 5 years ago
A second person infected with the Ebola virus has died in Uganda, the health ministry said Thursday, after a family exposed to the disease quietly crossed the border from Congo.The first cross-border cases in this Ebola outbreak -- the s...
·almost 5 years ago
More than 2000 cases of Ebola have been recorded in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) since last August. Now, despite authorities’ efforts – such as screening millions of travellers moving between the DRC and its neighbours – th...
·almost 5 years ago
The Tanzanian Minister of Health issued an “alert” on Sunday following the outbreak of Ebola cases this week in Uganda, a country with which Tanzania shares a long border.“I would like to alert the public to the existence of a threat of ...
·almost 5 years ago
The second largest Ebola virus disease outbreak on record is currently raging in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) with over 2,000 cases and more than 1,400 deaths recorded. Uganda, which shares a long and porous border with DRC...
·almost 5 years ago
For a period of time between 1986 and the early 2000s Uganda was considered to be a country committed to democratic reform. But in recent years the democratic space has shrunk dramatically.In a recently published journal article I argue ...
·almost 5 years ago
Government has said it will offer Chinese companies and individuals investing in Uganda various tax incentives and free land offerings to help mitigate job creation and youth unemployment.The incentives, among them 10-year tax holiday fo...
·almost 5 years ago
Representatives of an American woman accused of causing the death of unspecified number of children from Busoga, Bugisu and some parts of Buganda sub-regions, have for the first time spoken out on the allegations.Ms Renee Bach, 28, came ...
·almost 5 years ago
Authorities have confirmed an Ebola case not far from the Democratic Republic of the Congo's (DRC) border with South Sudan, a country with a healthcare system weakened by years of civil war, making it vulnerable to the potential spread o...
·almost 5 years ago
Uganda’s female parliamentarians are challenging the country’s male-centric political system. They are doing so by collaborating with, among others, fellow male parliamentarians. Changing the patriarchal nature of Uganda’s political syst...
·almost 5 years ago
In May this year Uganda’s Constitutional Court made a ruling that offered a welcome development for domestic justice for victims of police violence, as well as an opportunity for police reform. The Court declared a provision of the Ugand...
·over 4 years ago
Trade routes have been significantly disrupted this year in efforts to contain COVID-19. The effects of this are already showing: global growth is set to contract by 4.9% and growth in sub-Saharan Africa will contract by 3.2%. This...
·over 3 years ago
Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, also known as Bobi Wine, addresses supporters in Uganda’s capital Kampala. Regardless of how Ugandans decide to vote in the January 14 presidential elections, the incumbent Yoweri Museveni will most like...
·over 3 years ago
Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF)'s Commander in Chief (CIC), Julius Malema has called on Ugandian President Museveni to "leave the people the way they are". This following the new Anti-Homosexuality Bill that is expected to be signed into...
·about 1 year ago
The passing of the bill to criminalise identifying as LGBTQ+ in Uganda has sparked widespread concern and criticism from LGBTQ+ organisations around the world. The bill, which imposes the death penalty on some offenses and up to 20 years...
·about 1 year ago
The Economic Freedom Fighters is today expected to hold a picket outside the Ugandan High Commission in Pretoria. This following massive outcry over the newly introduced Anti-Homosexuality Bill.In a statement, the EFF expressed its reite...
·about 1 year ago
A total of eleven female Ugandan members of parliament (MPs) were arrested on Thursday due to what the police have since described as the staging of an unlawful protest. The group was arrested outside the parliamentary buildings.The prot...
·12 months ago
Uganda recently signed an anti-gay bill into law. Called by some the “worst of its kind in the world,” the law imposes life imprisonment for same-sex relations while using colonial language that such acts are “against the order of nature.”
·10 months ago