Uganda joins new global alliance with 4 new strategies ANALYSIS | RONALD MUSOKE | Uganda has joined 12 sub-Saharan African countries, three UN agencies, and several civil society movements to form a new alliance to work against HIV/AIDS in children and wipe it out by 2030. The formation of the …
Read More »First Ukrainian grain ship headed to Africa
The first ship to pick up wheat for Ethiopia from Ukraine is making it the first food delivery to Africa under an UN-brokered plan to deliver grain trapped by Russia’s war, according to a report by the Associated Press on Aug.12. Grain has been piling up in Ukraine for months …
Read More »Do winners cheat more?
New research refutes previous high-profile study | THE INDEPENDENT | New large-scale research led by the University of Leicester shows that winning does not cause people to cheat, in stark contrast to a previous high-profile study. A 2016 paper by Israeli researchers reported a series of experiments, which claimed that …
Read More »VIDEO: Constitutional lawyer dismisses Odinga camp claims
🔵 FINAL RESULTS – KENYA ELECTION ✳ William Ruto – 50.49% ➡ 7,176,141 votes ✳ Raila Odinga – 48.85% ➡ 6,942,930 votes ✳ Wajackoyah – 0.44% ➡ 61,969 ✳ Waihiga- 0.23% ➡ 31,987 (CLICK TO GO TO LIVE RESULTS) Nairobi, Kenya | THE INDEPENDENT | Constitutional Lawyer Kamotho Waiganjo has said that Azimio la Umoja will find it difficult overturning the election results declared by …
Read More »Raila loses the presidency for the fifth time
🔵 FINAL RESULTS – KENYA ELECTION ✳ William Ruto – 50.49% ➡ 7,176,141 votes ✳ Raila Odinga – 48.85% ➡ 6,942,930 votes ✳ Wajackoyah – 0.44% ➡ 61,969 ✳ Waihiga – 0.23% ➡ 31,987 Nairobi, Kenya | THE STAR KENYA | Azimio-One Kenya presidential candidate Raila Odinga has lost the …
Read More »UN forces get the blues in DR Congo
Get out, say Congolese to MONUSCO Kampala, Uganda | RONALD MUSOKE | Pressure is on to kick the UN peacekeeping mission in the DR Congo (MONUSCO) out of the country. Matters appeared to escalate further when on Aug.3 the Congolese government in Kinshasa expelled MONUSCO’s spokesperson over unclear reasons. And …
Read More »ANALYSIS: Kenya elections
Charles Onyango-Obbo, Mukasa-Mbidde, Godfrey Kiwanda, Patrick Wakida contrast them with Uganda Kampala, Uganda | MUBATSI ASINJA HABATI | On August 9, Kenyans went to the polls to elect their leaders at presidential, county and parliamentary levels. The top presidential candidates Raila Odinga and William Ruto hotly competed. The general elections …
Read More »Kenya’s election
Institutional safeguards still a work in progress ANALYSIS | JAMES D. LONG | Kenya has held its seventh national election since the reintroduction of multiparty competition in the early 1990s. Elections in the country are never dull affairs. They are always contested by ever-shifting and unstable political alliances that …
Read More »Chinese support boosts Uganda’s health care services
Kampala, Uganda | Xinhua | At the operation table in the Uganda-China Friendship Hospital here, senior Ugandan surgeons and their Chinese counterparts work shoulder to shoulder in saving the lives of ordinary Ugandans who are in dire need of health care. “The other day I was with a Chinese anesthetist. …
Read More »How Uganda started to tackle stunting – without a stunting plan
We spoke with Dr. Richard Kajura of the Makerere University School of Public Health about how the country significantly reduced prevalence of the condition by improving poverty, health, nutrition, education, and water and sanitation – by Exemplars News — August 04, 2022 SPECIAL FEATURE | THE INDEPENDENT | In the 1990s, Uganda …
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