Updated by Faith Barbara N Ruhinda at 1522 EAT On Tuesday 7 April 2026 At dawn in Ghana Town, a small fishing village on The Gambia’s Atlantic coast, Marie Mensah begins her day tending to her family amidst the challenges of life without official documentation. She dresses her children, prepares breakfast, and checks their schoolbags…
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Hero at 35,000 Feet: How a Ugandan Doctor Saved a Life on a Turkish Airlines Flight
By Dr. Kivumbi Earnest Benjamin, L.H.D. (Hon.) At cruising altitude, with passengers asleep and the hum of jet engines filling the cabin, few expect a medical emergency to unfold. But on Friday aboard Turkish Airlines Flight TK585 from Istanbul to Mauritania, fate intervened — and so did an Ugandan doctor. When the cabin crew’s voice…
