Uganda

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Watch: The Ugandan innovator turning weeds into clean energy

In partnership with Media City

Through Eco-Erudites, Amanda Natukunda and her team repurpose toxic water weeds into eco-friendly products like biogas, fertiliser, and animal feed.

28/04/2025

Health news

Ebola cases in Uganda rise to 14 as new cluster emerges

The ebola outbreak poses a challenge for health workers in Uganda to contain.

07/03/2025

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Watch: Uganda’s blind football league score against adversity

In partnership with Media City

Jagwe Muzafaru is visually impaired and founded the Blind Football League to give people like him a taste of the beautiful game.

18/02/2025

Health news

Uganda to launch Ebola vaccine trial to fight outbreak

Uganda plans to deploy over 2,000 doses of a candidate vaccine against the Sudan strain of Ebola.

03/02/2025

Health news

Ebola: Nurse in Uganda dies in country's first outbreak in two years

A nurse in Uganda has become a victim of the first outbreak of ebola in Uganda in two years.

31/01/2025

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Landslide at Uganda garbage dump kills 17

Rescuers are continuing to look for survivors amongst the wreckage.

12/08/2024

Health news

Uganda hospitals see unused yellow fever jabs due to vaccine hesitancy

Experts say vaccine hesitancy may stem from the disease being less well-known compared to others like malaria.

28/05/2024

Europe News

Uganda's unique policy on refugees at risk, despite stable EU funding

The Eastern African country provides accommodation and a plot of land to people fleeing wars in neighbouring countries, but the gap between needs and resources is increasing.

14/03/2024

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Watch: The Ugandan artisan rolling with nature

In partnership with Media City

Meet the visionary behind Boogaali Bikes, an eco-friendly organisation crafting bicycle frames out of bamboo.

12/02/2024

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Meet the Ugandan maverick showcasing her culture through fashion

In partnership with Media City

"Veryldesigns is not just me, it's the people I work with. It's the models, and it's the creatives we shoot with. It's a whole ecosystem. It's my culture. It's Africa."

06/11/2023

Green News

Uganda’s oil boom threatens sacred natural sites

As oil activities encroach on sacred natural sites, this small Ugandan community feels besieged.

24/08/2023

Climate

Uganda: My journey to the frontlines of climate change

There are few parts of life in Uganda that have not been affected by rising temperatures.

19/08/2023

Uganda

Euroviews. This is why the Serbia-Uganda trade deal makes perfect sense

The agreement signed between the two countries in Belgrade last week has breathed new life into a little-known but in fact, long-standing and increasingly fruitful partnership, Odrek Rwabwogo and Bratislav Stoiljković write.

08/08/2023

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Meet the conservationists saving rare animals in Uganda

In partnership with Media City

In partnership with Media City, Qatar

24/07/2023

Uganda

Grieving families bury their dead after Uganda school attack

Officials say at least 41 people were massacred and half a dozen kidnapped in the worst attack of its kind in Uganda since 2010.

19/06/2023

Uganda

At least 41 killed in rebel attack on Ugandan school

In a statement on Saturday, police authorities said that the Allied Democratic Forces carried out the attack late Friday night on a school in the border town of Mpondwe.

17/06/2023

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Meet the Ugandan woman who cooked up a feast for homeless children during Ramadan

In partnership with Media City

In partnership with Media City Qatar During Ramadan, some Muslims go the extra mile by performing additional prayers, reading the Quran, or squashing negative tendencies like eating junk and gossiping. For Aisha Ornella Aniotrih cooking for the homeless children completes her Ramadan.

24/04/2023

Uganda

Uganda activists call on EU to cut off aid after anti-LGBT+ law

The Uganda government recently introduced a new bill making it a crime to identify as LGBTQ+.

12/04/2023

Uganda

Uganda passes a bill to imprison people who identify as LGBTQ+

Uganda passes a bill to imprison people who identify as LGBTQ+ and could face life imprisonment or even the death penalty.

22/03/2023

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Meet the young Ugandan dance group taking the world by storm

In partnership with Media City

"When you dance, you forget that you didn't eat. When you dance, you forget that you have lost someone. You forget everything. You focus on dance."

31/10/2022

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The Princess Royal visits a virus research centre in Uganda

Britain's Princess Anne landed in Uganda accompanied by her Husband Sir Tim Laurence on Tuesday for her four-day private visit to the country.

28/10/2022

Uganda

Uganda condemns EU resolution slamming oil pipeline

Uganda slammed a resolution by the European Union’s Parliament calling for a halt to extractive activities in protected ecosystems in an oil pipeline project.

19/09/2022

Green News

Euroviews. ‘Debt on top of debt’: How the EU is destroying Africa and the planet

Exclusive | At this rate, climate change is turning Africa from ‘intolerable’ to ‘uninhabitable’ writes Vanessa Nakate.

17/02/2022

Nature

This wildlife vet is helping Uganda’s endangered gorillas to thrive

Dr Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka has recently won the UNEP'S Champions of the Earth award.

30/01/2022

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Ugandan children back to school and vaccine in Nepal

Schools in Uganda reopen nearly two years after learning was suspended because of the coronavirus pandemic and schoolchildren given vaccine in Nepal amid Covid resurgence.

10/01/2022

Scenes

Meet the inventor saving the lives of pregnant women across Uganda

In partnership with Media City

“Radiology was a great marriage between saving lives and dealing with machines”

20/12/2021