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Mak Power Shift: Prof. Ssali Takes Top DVC Role as Prof. Kakumba Is Booted
Makerere University Chancellor Crispus Kiyonga announced the appointment of Prof. Sarah Evelyn Nabwire Ssali as Deputy Vice Chancellor in charge...
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It’s the economy, stupid: Can it be a key 2026 campaign plank, though?
If anything serves as a metaphor for the economic malaise in whose throes Uganda appears to be convulsing, it is...
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Mapping Time: A Coronavirus Diary
By Khaddafina Mbabazi The start of global lockdown (March) found me in Charlottesville, Virginia. A graduate student, I was knee-deep...
Clearing the confusion around Covid-19 test results in Uganda
By Dr. Ekwaro A. Obuku Uganda has been performing nearly 15,000 Covid-19 tests per week. Yet, the health system heroes...
Busoga: Covid-19, the sugar barons & the bitter taste of cane
How permit-controlling cartels have locked out poor out-growers A bunch of kids, scrawny and dishevelled spread across the treacherous rows...
Was Besigye’s claim on soldiers’ salaries and Covid-19 monies backed by evidence?
BY: ROBERT MADOI For someone who runs everything down to the smallest details, Kizza Besigye’s conceiving of the novel coronavirus...
Investigation: African migrants ‘left to die’ in Saudi Arabia’s hellish Covid detention centres
Saudi Arabia, one of the wealthiest countries on earth, is keeping hundreds if not thousands of African migrants locked in...
A story of a Covid19 survivor
Many people believe that COVID-19 affects old people the most, however Dr. Phiona Atuhebwe was the youngest at her work...
Photo Essay – Kampala threatened with new lockdown measures as public fail to follow guidance.
Life has been returning to normal in Uganda, but perhaps a little too normal. The country is now facing a...
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Manifesto mirage: A critical analysis of NRM’s promises
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