By Daniel Plafker & E K Benj updated at 1611 GMT on 2nd Sep 2021 On August 9, the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued its most damning assessment yet of the world’s progress towards avoiding the most devastating impacts of human-caused climate change. In what more than 230 scientists called a ‘code red for humanity,’ the…
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Uganda is My Homeland- Demystifying UN Top Envoy’s Message in Gulu.
By E K Benj Updated at 0327 GMT on Tuesday 19 May 21 GULU United Nations Ambassador to Uganda H.E Rosa Malango on Monday started her first engagement with inspiring Ugandans to love and secure their country beginning with their homes. Addressing Young people gathering at Whitaker Peace & Development Initiative founded by Forest Steven…
Grace Ssuubi shares lessons from UN Women in Leadership Mentoring Youth Program.
KAMPALA By E K Benj Updated at 21:10 GMT Sunday 2nd May 21 Grace Ssubi, 27 a resident of Ggita, Gayaza in Wakiso has made significant of the concluded United Nations Women in Leadership Mentoring Youth Workshop organised under a Theme: “Achieving an Equal Future in a COVID-19 World” at the residence of H.E. Rosa…
What will define Kabaka Mutebi – Museveni Relations in the aftermath of concluded elections?
Justice Simon Mugenyi Byabakama, chair of the Electoral Commission, declared Museveni the winner of the Uganda presidential election held on 14 January 2021, stating that he won 59% of the vote, with his main challenger Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine taking 35%. Voter turnout was 57%. Byabakama said that it had been a peaceful election….
Climate change: Uganda under threat from a melting glacier
By Pablo Uchoa Climate change Ronah Masika remembers when she could still see the snowy caps of the Rwenzori mountains, a Unesco World Heritage site on the border between Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The view was stunning every time she travelled from her home in Kasese town to the Ugandan capital, Kampala…
M7 wants Youth Partnership to Save Uganda’s Forests & Wetlands
STATE HOUSE- ENTEBBE By E. K Benj. Updated at 16:40 GMT on Friday 12th February, 2021 Ahead of United Nations Wildlife Day scheduled 3rd March, Uganda’s President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni on Wednesday (10th February 2021) at State House, Entebbe held an extra ordinary 4 hours engagement with representatives of 25 youth led organisations under their…
Understanding Mohamed Bouazizi: The man who sparked the Arab Spring 10 years ago.
By Thessa Lageman & E K Benj– 23rd Dec 2020 On Thursday 17th December 2020, marked 10 years ago, a Tunisian fruit and vegetable vendor set himself on fire in the town of Sidi Bouzid and triggered the Arab Spring. His cousin, Ali, reflects on that day and the days that followed. “17 December 2010…
Hundreds of endangered seals mysteriously found dead on the shores of Russia’s Caspian Sea.
13th December 2020, 17:27 GMT Moscow, Russia – By E K Benj Disturbing images have emerged after 272 endangered Caspian seals were found washed up on the beaches of Dagestan. The mammal can only be found in the world’s largest inland body of water, which borders five Eurasian countries. According to Rosrybolovstvo, the Federal Agency…
”Do you want us to be like Libya? ” M7 Minister.
Wakiso, Uganda – By our reporter. Uganda’s State Minister for Primary Education and Woman Member of Parliament for Wakiso, Rosemary Nansubuga Sseninde on Thursday (10th Dec 2020) while campaigning in Kikajjo, Mankidye to retain her seat ahead of the general elections in January 2021 called upon women to support President Yoweri Kaguta T Museveni. Click…
“Even if the church was in the wrong, ordering demolition was extreme and a Curse.” Museveni.
By Desire Ninsiima Kampala, Uganda President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni yesterday passed by the site of St Peter’s Church in Ndeeba that was recently demolished by unscrupulous people. The Head of State was saddened by this incident and has given the church assurances that those complicit will be punished. “Even if the church was in the…
