Uganda

The 4th annual arts and culture festival of Uganda's National Cultural Centre, UNCC, closed over the weekend with three days of celebrations, processions, traditional dances and other performing arts enlivening the streets of Kampala

Parliament has passed a bill that will allow for human organ donation and transplantation: the Uganda Human Organ Donation and Transplant Bill 2021; it aims at regulating organ, cell and tissue donation and transplantation

According to the African Development Bank, the country loses about 200.000 hectares of forest cover every year and this has led to a 16,5% reduction in forested land since the 1980s

Edward Mukiibi, a young Ugandan agronomist, has become president of the international Slow Food association, which was founded in the 1980s with the aim of defending and spreading the individual agricultural and food and wine traditions

The country imposed the world's longest school closure period, 22 months, during the pandemic; statistical models predict a 2,8-year learning deficit in Uganda, a 22,5% increase in pregnancies among girls and an increase in child labour from 21% to 36%

Uganda Revenue Authority has established mechanisms to start taxing Facebook and other internet giants; the move is one of the strategies expected to earn Uganda at least 25 trillion shillings in domestic revenue in the 2022/23 fiscal year