Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Wilfred Peter Musamali Mukhalisi, a teacher at Buteteya primary in Namisidwa district has died because of excessive alcohol consumption. Mukhalisi died on Friday evening following a drinking spree at a local drinking joint. His wife Magdalen Nafula says the deceased left home at around …
Read More »Increasing alcohol consumption in West Nile worries CSO’s
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Civil Society Organisations-CSOs in West Nile region have raised an alarm over the high levels of alcohol consumption in the region. A survey conducted by Arua District NGO Network-ADINGON shows that alcohol intake in the region stands at 75 percent with men taking the …
Read More »Hold the vodka: Russians cut drinking by 40 percent under Putin
Moscow, Russia | AFP | Russians might have a reputation as a nation of hard drinkers, but a report by the World Health Organization published Tuesday showed their alcohol consumption has dropped by more than 40 percent from its peak in the early 2000s. The WHO put the decrease down to …
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