Uganda

The Minister for Relief, Disaster Preparedness and Refugees, Hillary Onek, appealed to the international community to increase funding for Uganda to enable it to feed its growing refugee population

Peter Oloya, a former child soldier who survived the horror of being kidnapped by the LRA, is now an internationally renowned artist and his art is expressed through working with clay

Government minister Henry Okello Oryem was criticised for calling those who starved to death in his country 'idiots'; in 2022, more than 2.200 people died of starvation and related diseases in north-eastern Uganda

Over 5,6 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines, purchased by the Ugandan government for $7,3 million with a World Bank loan, have expired and will now be withdrawn from health facilities and destroyed

Tonto, a traditional banana-based beer whose production still follows traditional techniques such as barefoot beating, is in danger of disappearing, jeopardising a major source of income in the banana-growing regions of central and western Uganda

A well-known Lgbtq rights activist in Uganda, Steven Kabuye, who works with the Coloured Voices Media Foundation, was stabbed, sustaining serious injuries

The armed forces have been ordered by President Yoweri Museveni to reactivate Local Defence Units to be deployed in several national parks in western Uganda following increased insecurity in the area

The country has imposed a ban on the sale of beef products as the authorities struggle to contain a severe anthrax epidemic that has originated in the district of Kyotera in the central region

A 70 years old woman, Safina Namukwaya, gave birth to twins in Kampala after in vitro fertilisation treatment; the woman commented this as a 'true miracle' and the hospital emphasised not only the medical success, but the 'resilience of the human spirit'

Uganda's Ministry of Finance has announced plans to apply for a $150 million loan from the Chinese bank Exim to develop the country's internet infrastructure

Uganda has criticised the US decision to exclude it, along with other African countries, from access to a duty-free trade programme arguing that is "intended to punish African countries that oppose the imposition of the West's cultural values"

Well-known politician Henry Kyemba, a piece of Uganda's political history, has died: he held government positions under both Idi Amin Dada and Milton Obote, adversaries in politics and on the battlefield, but also of current President Yoweri Museveni