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Protection or Abuse? Why Families In Masaka Region Take Disabled Children For Birth Control
This is to help the country address urgent balance of payments needs, after floods and an oil price shock hurt economic performance. In a statement, the IMF said that “The pandemic-related oil price shock and devastating floods have led to an economic downturn. The … downturn widened the fiscal and…
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Is the UPE program breeding learning inequalities?
Africa has attracted significant investments and has received an estimated $20 billion in direct investment from Japan between 2016-2018. According to a recent survey by…
How Makerere erased our freedoms – Part 2
Three decades later, it is telling that at Makerere University, political parties have been abolished, physical campaigns and voting banned, dissenting lecturers forced to leave,…
How Uganda tried to silence #March2Parliament protests
“I expected to be killed. I expected to be raped,” said Aloikin Praise Opoloje, a few days after she was released from detention on bail…
Poor fishing communities targeted and discriminated against on L.Victoria
A year after his arrest by the Fish Protection Unit of the Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF), Moses Musitwa was still paying off debts he…
‘Worse than business as usual’: EU overlooks Uganda’s attack on human rights
The European Union claims to stand up for human rights, the rule of law, transparency in government and peaceful, democratic elections. Yet in recent years…
How Makerere erased our freedoms
It is 7:00pm July 14, 2022. Despite the onset of darkness, hundreds of students are moving on all university roads, chanting their candidates’ names. On…
Karimojong women and children face tough choices home and away
Former President Apollo Milton Obote is famously quoted in the Uganda Gazette of 1963 to have said that “we shall not wait for Karamoja to…
Fresh details on digital number plates
As July 01 which is the new launch deadline for digital number plates in Uganda approaches, The Independent has new details about Security Minister Jim…
The West’s Patience With Uganda’s Strongman Wanes After a Bloody Election
The United States is considering action against the government of President Yoweri Museveni, a longtime ally who has crushed dissent at home. The European Union…