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Teenage moms thrive with supportive structures
By Juliet Nabulime Child rights experts have attributed the surge of child mothers during the Covid-19 pandemic to peer pressure...
Poor mothers bleed to death as unscrupulous health workers sell blood
It’s 9am and Rosette Kamuntu is at home in Ntinda preparing a snack after dropping her kids to school. She...
Counting the Cost: Covid-19 Dents Aspirations of Small Scale Irrigation Farmers in Kenya and Uganda
By Dicta Asiimwe and Ruth Keah Until 2017, Tabitha Kisinga a mother to a set of triplets and seven other...
If Bobi Wine can’t stand scrutiny, he may consider selling ice cream
Last week, I had a candid tete-a-tete over mildly spiced fish tikka masala and mashed potato at Piato Restaurant in...
EDITORIAL STATEMENT: Kakwenza (And Uganda) Deserve Better
The East African Center for Investigative Reporting (EACIR), the publisher of the not-for-profit online publication, www.voxpopuli.ug is appalled by the continued detention...
Three die, 33 injured in twin Suicide bombings in Kampala
Three people have died in deadly twin suicide bomb attacks that targeted key government installations in Kampala. According to the...
Covid-19 Pandemic leads to High Suicide Rate
The COVID-19 pandemic and attendant restrictions exacerbated deficiencies in Uganda’s already challenged mental healthcare system. Many people with mental issues could not easily move to get their...
Has the pandemic worsened the mental health crisis in Uganda?
BY ROBERT MADOI In April 2021, the Uganda Police Force released a 2020 report that made clear a marked decline in...
Inside 25 years of GMOs in Africa
A quarter of a century has passed since South Africa became the first country in Africa to farm genetically modified...
Besigye’s claim about Covid-19 in children mostly does not hold up
Former Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye’s views on Covid-19 have been both prodigious and intensely revealing. A trained physician, the...
