Posts tagged Uganda

Togo illustrates the difficulty of moving away from personalised politics.

Uganda’s Women’s Protest Working Group is calling for support to end violence against women. The group is holding the One Million Women’s march on Saturday June 30th 2018, at Centenary Park. #WomensMarchUg Women Lives Matter:

2018 is the 18th year of the World Refugee Day event, run by the United Nations Refugee Agency as a declaration that the world supports and stands with refugees. The day also marks the launch of the ‘With Refugees’ petition, which will state the needs and potential rights of refugees to allow every one of them the opportunity to thrive and succeed – as these people did.

Brian Gitta, a 24-year-old Ugandan software engineer and the 2018 winner of the Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation, proved that solutions can come from personal experience and our day-to-day struggles. After missing university lectures due to chronic malaria, Gitta developed Matibabu, a device that tests for malaria without a blood test.

Ugandan artist Stacey Gillian Abe’s latest work, titled ‘Enyasa’ is a series of sculptures that explore “the difference between food satisfaction and sexual satisfaction and also relating it to the double standards in society”.

Africa is a continent full of beautiful history, but some of it is ugly and unpleasant. It is just as important to document and talk about the dark chapters for posterity. Uganda is doing just that with the announcement of plans to build an ‘Idi Amin museum’ to attract tourists. The museum will also showcase pre-colonial and colonial history.

The African Union has finally launched Agenda 2063’s long awaited Single African Air Transport Market SAATM amid strong criticism from member states and some African airlines.

Travelling helps to broaden horizons and change ingrained perceptions which makes it a necessary endeavour for the liberated African youth. Jessica Nabongo is showing the world what African tourism and digital nomad-ism looks like. She is “on a mission to become the first black woman to travel to all of the countries in the world”.

Of the 72 countries that still criminalise gay sex today, at least 38 of them were once subject to British colonialism.

The Uganda Revenue Authority recently proposed taxing Bibles, Qu’rans, prayer and hymn books imported into the country. The revenue authority has since backtracked on the proposal following a public outrage. The government also affirmed that it has not levied new tax on religious books.