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Kusemererwa Jonathan Henry, Joel Joseph (left and middle) and a friend pose for a photo on their way home from school. During the lockdown, they missed spending time in school together and would walk to visit each other.

PHOTOS: Teen dreams and disappointments after the world's longest COVID school closure

Feb 19, 2022
Schools in Uganda were shut nearly 2 years due to the pandemic. Now they're open again, although millions of kids won't go back. We speak to 6 teens about their plans and hopes.
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Climate activist Hilda Flavia Nakabuye speaks at the C40 World Mayors Summit in Copenhagen in 2019. She and a group of Ugandan activists are calling on high-income countries to commit to bigger and faster emission cuts ahead of COP26, the climate change

A climate change disaster led this shy 24-year-old from Uganda into activism

Nov 02, 2021
When Hilda Flavia Nakabuye was a girl, a severe storm flooded her family's farm. Now she realizes that climate change was a factor — and she's become an advocate for change.
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Zambian neurosurgeon, John Baptist Mukasa, passed away on TKTK.

Pandemic Loss: Pioneering Ugandan Neurosurgeon Was A 'Servant Of The People'

Jul 17, 2021
John Baptist Mukasa is one of the 4 million-plus people around the globe who have died because of this pandemic. His death is a reminder of the devastating toll of COVID-19.
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An oxygen cylinder plant in Kampala, Uganda. The Ugandan army has started producing oxygen for state-run hospitals to ease the burden existing plants as COVID-19 cases — and demand for oxygen for severe illness — keep rising.

Africa Is Running Out Of Oxygen

Jun 24, 2021
As COVID surges, so does demand for oxygen. And oxygen manufacturing plants simply can't keep up. That's bad news not only for severely ill COVID-19 patients but others in need, including newborns.
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Africa
Soldiers patrol outside presidential challenger Bobi Wine's home in Magere, Kampala, Uganda, Jan. 16, after President Yoweri Museveni was declared the winner of the election.

Uganda Security Forces Ordered To Stop Detention Of Losing Presidential Candidate

Jan 25, 2021
A judge ruled Monday that security forces surrounding the home of Bobi Wine, who lost a disputed election to President Yoweri Museveni, must leave. It's not clear if the ruling will be obeyed.
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World
Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni has been in power since 1986. His police chief has warned that anyone causing trouble on election day "will regret being born." Museveni is facing a formidable electoral challenge from Bobi Wine, who has been arrested m

Uganda's Ruler Museveni Defends Violent Crackdown In Bid For 6th Term

Jan 12, 2021
President Yoweri Museveni, in power since 1986, spoke to NPR ahead of Thursday's election. His main challenger, Bobi Wine, said Tuesday the military had killed his driver and his home had been raided.
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Renee Bach, who is 31, was sued in Ugandan civil court over the deaths of children who were treated at the critical care center she ran in Uganda. She has left Uganda and is now living in the U.S.

U.S. Missionary With No Medical Training Settles Suit Over Child Deaths At Her Center

Jul 31, 2020
Renee Bach ran a treatment center for severely malnourished children in Uganda. Over five years, 105 died. This week, a lawsuit by two mothers who each lost a son was settled with a cash payment.
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Maria Nakalanda (right), Edward Arineitwe and Charles Batte are Ugandan health care workers who have faced difficulties in getting to and from work after their country's transportation lockdown.

Commuting In A Pandemic: These Health Workers Are Trekking And Canoeing

Apr 29, 2020
And a canoe is not the best option when the paddler can't swim. Here's how doctors and nurses are getting to work in Uganda after the government clampdown on traffic to slow the spread of COVID-19.
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Photo highlights from our top stories: Inuit parenting teaches kids how to control anger; a fisherman holds up a fish caught in Lake Malawi, where transactional sex is part of the fish trade; the Dandora Landfill in Nairobi, Kenya.

7 Of Our Most Popular Global Health And Development Stories In 2019

Dec 20, 2019
Secrets of Inuit parenting, a Mongolian heavy metal band and a controversial medical center in Uganda were among the topics that drew the most readers.
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A Sip Of Morphine: Uganda's Old-School Solution To A Shortage Of Painkillers

Nov 25, 2019
Uganda is challenging morphine's reputation as an archaic, dangerous drug — and inspiring other African countries to do the same.
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Shadrach Mugoya Levi and his wife, Naomi.

Yom Kippur In Uganda: An Easier Fast This Year

Oct 08, 2019
A remote community of Jews who know what it's like to go hungry is reflecting on what its spiritual leader says was "a good year, really not too bad."
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Renee Bach, 30, has left Uganda and is now back where she grew up in Bedford County, Va.

American With No Medical Training Ran Center For Malnourished Ugandan Kids. 105 Died

Aug 09, 2019
When she was 19, Renee Bach founded a charity that went on to care for over 900 severely malnourished babies and children. Now she is being sued by two of the mothers whose children died.
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Health
The WHO says the current Ebola outbreak is an emergency in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the region — but not on the international level. Here, people arriving from the DRC on Friday wash their hands with chlorinated water to prevent the spr

WHO Says Ebola Outbreak Is Not An International Public Health Emergency

Jun 14, 2019
The agency says that while the outbreak in central Africa is taking a heavy toll, there is still a low threat that it will spread beyond its current region.
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Africa

WHO Weighs Declaring Global Health Emergency As Ebola Spreads In Africa

Jun 13, 2019

The latest outbreak has killed nearly 1,400 people in Democratic Republic of the Congo, but new cases in neighboring Uganda have raised further concern at the World Health Organization.

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Uganda has reported its first death from Ebola. Here, a health worker takes a woman's temperature at a border crossing between Uganda and Democratic Republic of the Congo, part of an effort to screen for Ebola and prevent its spread.

5-Year-Old Dies In Uganda As Ebola Spreads From Democratic Republic Of The Congo

Jun 12, 2019
Uganda's Ministry of Health says the dead boy's brother, 3, and grandmother, 50, also tested positive for Ebola. The 5-year-old and his mother had been in Democratic Republic of the Congo days ago.
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Africa
An American woman and her driver, kidnapped in Uganda's Queen Elizabeth National Park, have been rescued, Ugandan police said on Sunday.

American Woman And Her Driver Freed From Kidnappers, Ugandan Police Say

Apr 07, 2019
Police said four men abducted the pair from their vehicle at gunpoint last week and demanded $500,000 in ransom.
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This homemade tool was used for female circumcision in northeast Uganda.

The 2019 Report Card For The Fight To End Female Genital Mutilation

Feb 06, 2019
On this day of "zero tolerance" for FGM, how is the world doing in its campaign to halt the practice?
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Shadrach Mugoya Levi and his wife, Naomi.

What The Yom Kippur Fast Means To A Man Who's Known Hunger

Sep 18, 2018
Shadrach Mugoya Levi is the spiritual leader of a community of Uganda Jews. After a year of study in Jerusalem, he says he's more prepared than ever for the Day of Atonement.
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Music News
A supporter holds a poster of musician-turned-politician Robert Kyagulanyi, better known as Bobi Wine, in a suburb of Kampala on June 29, 2017. Wine was imprisoned and allegedly tortured following a demonstration against Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni

Femi Kuti, Brian Eno And 86 Others Sign Letter Supporting Ugandan Opposition Leader

Aug 22, 2018
Following the arrest of Ugandan politician and musician Bobi Wine, an extensive list of artists, politicians and activists have called for his release.
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Stella Nyanzi arrives at the High Court in Kampala, Uganda, in April 2017. She had been jailed for "cyber-harassment" of the president.

She Strips, She Swears, She Goes To Jail ... For The Good Of Her Country

May 08, 2018
Stella Nyanzi makes headlines in Uganda for protests about everything from corruption to sanitary pads. She's lost her job, landed in jail — and been brought to court to see if she's out of her mind.
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Rapid detection of outbreaks is critical. That's why the CDC partnered with Uganda on a pilot program to speed things up. Above: Workers at an Ebola emergency response center in Sierra Leone during the outbreak that began in 2014.

How Fast Can An Outbreak Be Detected?

Mar 23, 2018
In Uganda, the answer used to be ... not fast enough. And every hour is critical. A pilot program set up by CDC has turned things around — and holds lessons for the rest of the world.
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Agnes Igoye celebrates her birthday on International Women's Day. Above, Igoye, an anti-trafficking activist in Uganda, attends the 2016 DVF (Diane von Furstenberg) Awards in New York City.

International Women's Day In Uganda: If A Man Cooks For You, That's ... Progress

Mar 08, 2018
Agnes Igoye, whose birthday is the same day as the event, has a lot of gripes about the way women are treated. But she has great hope that women will thrive — and men will get with the program.
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Twesigye Jackson Kaguri, in the blue t-shirt on the roof, helps build a home for a grandmother supported by his HIV/AIDS nonprofit in rural Uganda.

Why This AIDS Champion Is Conflicted About World AIDS Day

Dec 01, 2017
Twesigye Jackson Kaguri, the founder of an HIV/AIDS nonprofit in Uganda, thinks World AIDS Day could be bigger and better.
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Charles Watmon and his dog, Ogen Rwot, in the house they share in Gulu, Uganda.

How Dogs Are Lending A Paw To Uganda's Traumatized War Veterans

Nov 29, 2017
In Uganda, dogs are not typically pets and are often feared. But one young man decided to see if therapy dogs might be helpful for traumatized veterans of the civil war.
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Indian men use a roadside public urinal in New Delhi.

Politician's Public Peeing Puts Spotlight On Need For Public Toilets

Nov 17, 2017
It's not exactly clear what prompted Ugandan MP Ibrahim Abriga to relieve himself on a city wall. But one thing is certain: Kampala is one of many places where public toilets can be hard to find.

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