#UGANDAN NEWS

[kenyagist]

Latest News in Uganda: Breaking Headlines and Updates from Kampala

Stay informed about the latest happenings in Uganda with our comprehensive coverage of breaking news, travel updates, and today’s headlines. From political developments to travel insights, we bring you real-time information about Uganda’s vibrant capital city, Kampala, and beyond. Discover the most recent stories, stay up-to-date with current affairs, and delve into the heart of Ugandan news.…

[nutelea]

dude: when you look at me sometimes you have this really intense look about you

me, internally: I am heat fixing you to a glass slide with heat vision I am pouring iodine on you and gram staining you like a bacterium

me: really?

dude: yeah. turns me on

[doubleca5t]

gooner mewing baby gronk skibidi rizz in ohio is just the new big chungus ugandan knuckles dogelore ligma is just the new deep fried mlg montage here come dat boy dicks out for harambe is just the new rage face forever alone trololo that feel when no gf which according to my dad is just the modern replacement for nerds incessantly quoting Monty Python at each other

[mafia1tornado]

Bakwagala Olina, Mafia1Tornado_Audio! 2024

[untilthenexttee]

Junior Golf Students Swinging for Sustainability in Fort Portal, Uganda

In Uganda, kids at the AFRIYEA Golf Academy are taking their swing for sustainability to new heights. Sports have always played a crucial role in driving positive change within communities, transcending age, abilities, and ethnic boundaries. Golf, in particular, stands out as a sport perfectly aligned with nature, played amidst landscapes teeming with diverse wildlife, flourishing biodiversity,…

[heritage-harmony-records]

NEW SINGLE OUT NOW!!!

Nkwata Mpola is now available on the HHR YouTube channel. This is the new single from Ugandan afrobeats artist The Carlos Mendy and was released on September 8th. His debut album Feelings will be released on HHR in the future.

[phoneheadedtrans]

"...most politicians, bless them, aren't that cool."

[glassprism]

New photos from the Ugandan production of The Phantom of the Opera! x and x

[trilzmedia]

Swangz Avenue signs singer Elijah Kitaka as first male artist

Swangz Avenue signs singer Elijah Kitaka as first male artist

Singer Elijah Kitaka  has put pen to paper on a long term contract to become the first male artist signed by   Swangz Avenue, the record label has announced. Being one of the top recognised stakeholders in the music industry in the country,  the Industrial Area- based  record label has been able to produce, nature and mentor several brands of talents with high-quality records of music and to…

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#ripaka #SouthAfrica

[djedukenya]

Photos Of Ugandan MP Patrick Okabe Of Serere County Who Died In Road Accident With His Wife

Photos Of Ugandan MP Patrick Okabe Of Serere County Who Died In Road Accident With His Wife

Serere County Legislator Patrick Okabe and his wife have perished in a deadly car crash along Tirinyi Road after his vehicle was rammed into by a speeding Fuso truck, registration number KCX 017K from Kenya.  

[makingqueerhistory]

The Pink Line: Journeys Across the World's Queer Frontiers

Mark Gevisser

More than seven years in the making, Mark Gevisser's The Pink Line: Journeys Across the World's Queer Frontiers is an exploration of how the conversation around sexual orientation and gender identity has come to divide--and describe--the world in an entirely new way over the first two decades of the twenty-first century. No social movement has brought change so quickly and with such dramatically mixed results. While same-sex marriage and gender transition are celebrated in some parts of the world, laws are being strengthened to criminalize homosexuality and gender nonconformity in others. As new globalized queer identities are adopted by people across the world--thanks to the digital revolution--fresh culture wars have emerged. A new Pink Line, Gevisser argues, has been drawn across the globe, and he takes readers to its frontiers. Between sensitive and sometimes startling profiles of the queer folk he's encountered along the Pink Line, Gevisser offers sharp analytical chapters exploring identity politics, religion, gender ideology, capitalism, human rights, moral panics, geopolitics, and what he calls "the new transgender culture wars." His subjects include a Ugandan refugee in flight to Canada, a trans woman fighting for custody of her child in Moscow, a lesbian couple campaigning for marriage equality in Mexico, genderqueer high schoolers coming of age in Michigan, a gay Israeli-Palestinian couple searching for common ground, and a community of kothis--"women's hearts in men's bodies"--who run a temple in an Indian fishing village. What results is a moving and multifaceted picture of the world today, and the queer people defining it.

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[afeelgoodblog]

The Best News of Last Week - May 29, 2023

Rwanda’s life expectancy has increased by 20 years in the last 20 years

What did Rwanda change? Three developments stand out: low-cost community-based health insurance plans, national investments in rural health posts, and ramped-up foreign collaborations. In 2020, more than 90 percent of Rwanda’s people had some kind of health insurance. This stands out relative to other low-income countries, where on average 31 percent of people have health insurance.

2. Brandon School Division rejects call to remove library books on sexuality, gender identity

Loud cheers erupted inside a packed high school gymnasium after the Brandon School Division rejected a call to remove books dealing with sexuality and gender identity from libraries. Hundreds of people in Manitoba's second-largest city showed up for the marathon school division meeting, which ran into the early morning hours.

The trustees ultimately voted 6-1 to reject a proposal to create a committee of trustees and parents to review books available in division schools.

3. Lotto winner pledges to fund classrooms in his native Mali

Happiness for one lucky North Carolina resident comes not from newfound wealth from a lottery win, but using those winnings to help schoolchildren -- in this case, from Mali.

Souleymane Sana of North Carolina won $100,000 from a scratch-off ticket. Relocating to the United States from Mali -- a war-torn county in West Africa -- Sana is using his earnings to create a non-profit to help school kids from his hometown.

4. Mountain gorillas rebound thanks to Ugandan veterinarian

In 2018, as their population topped 1,000, they were removed from the critically endangered list and their status upgraded to just endangered. That positive step was due, in no small part, to Ugandan veterinarian Dr. Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka. 

Her working home is Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, home to roughly half of the world's mountain gorillas. But early on she also realized that to help the animals and keep them free from disease and poaching, she needed to also help their human neighbours, launching successful initiatives to improve the health and well-being of the people living around the park. 

5. Imports of ivory from hippos, orcas and walruses to be banned in UK

Ivory imports from hippopotamuses, orcas and walruses will be banned under new legislation to protect the endangered species from poaching.

The Ivory Act, passed in 2018, targeted materials from elephants, but a loophole meant that animals other than elephants, including hippos, were being targeted for their ivory.

6. Solar power due to overtake oil production investment for first time in 2023

Investment in clean energy will extend its lead over spending on fossil fuels in 2023, the International Energy Agency said on Thursday, with solar projects expected to outpace outlays on oil production for the first time.

Annual investment in renewable energy is up by nearly a quarter since 2021 compared to a 15% rise for fossil fuels, the Paris-based energy watchdog said in its World Energy Investment report.

7. Paralyzed man walks naturally, thanks to wireless ‘bridge’ between brain and spine

Gert-Jan Oskam lost the ability to walk in 2011 when he injured his spine in a cycling accident in China. Six years later, the Dutch man managed to take a few short steps thanks to a small array of electrodes implanted on top of his spinal cord that delivered nerve-stimulating pulses of electricity.

Today in Nature, an international team of researchers reports giving Oskam a better fix, a way to digitally bridge the communication gap between his brain and lower body. Brain waves signaling Oskam’s desire to walk travel from a device implanted in his skull to the spinal stimulator, rerouting the signal around the damaged tissue and delivering pulses of electricity to the spinal cord to facilitate the movement. Oskam can now walk more fluidly, navigate obstacles, and climb stairs.

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A man in Uganda is potentially facing the death penalty for “aggravated homosexuality.” He is the first person to be charged under the new law.

It’s important to note that this majority of Ugandans don’t support the extreme anti-gay laws in place there. But they’ve been heavily promoted by US evangelical and right-wing groups.

If you’re still wondering what those same groups want to do here, in their own country, you’re looking at it.

[chongoblog]

every time a new meme crops up, I place it on a quality scale from ugandan knuckles and wojaks to steamed hams and we are number one