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Oct 29, 2024 | 
worldcrunch.com | Georgia Recount |Hazem el-Amin |Apophia Agiresaasi |Nakisanze Segawa
-Essay-BEIRUT — Lubnan Baalbaki, chief conductor of the Lebanese Philharmonic Orchestra, posted a picture on Facebook of his family house in the border town of Odaisseh in southern Lebanon. Along with the picture, he posted a video released by the Israeli military showing the massive explosion that destroyed all houses in Odaisseh, including the Baalbaki family house. For the latest news & views from every corner of the world, Worldcrunch Today is the only truly international newsletter.
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
worldcrunch.com | Georgia Recount |Apophia Agiresaasi |Nakisanze Segawa |Noella Nyirabihogo
Society Esther Mwema plays with her two children, Dina Asifiwe, left, and Madina Tumusifu, outside their tent at a camp for displaced people in Munigi. Society Esther Mwema plays with her two children, Dina Asifiwe, left, and Madina Tumusifu, outside their tent at a camp for displaced people in Munigi.
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Sep 2, 2024 | 
allafrica.com | Apophia Agiresaasi
Wakiso, Uganda — Formal pathways to loans in Uganda are cumbersome. Money lenders step in to fill the gap -- but at a steep price. Fredrick Nathan Rubahimbya needed money. It was June 2019 and his daughter's final university exams started in a week. He needed to pay 800,000 Ugandan shillings (215 United States dollars) in fees so she would be allowed to take them. He tried to borrow from relatives and friends, but nobody had the money.
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Aug 31, 2024 | 
globalpressjournal.com | Apophia Agiresaasi |GPJ Uganda
WAKISO, UGANDA — Fredrick Nathan Rubahimbya needed money. It was June 2019 and his daughter’s final university exams started in a week. He needed to pay 800,000 Ugandan shillings (215 United States dollars) in fees so she would be allowed to take them. He tried to borrow from relatives and friends, but nobody had the money. He contacted a local microfinance institution, but they said it would be a two- to three-week process, he says. “I wanted money immediately.
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Aug 30, 2024 | 
allafrica.com | Apophia Agiresaasi |Nakisanze Segawa |Noella Nyirabihogo
Munigi, Democratic Republic of Congo — Health officials in Uganda told Global Press Journal to ignore information provided by health workers at the border. Esther Mwema assumed her 4-year-old son had chicken pox. He was lucky enough to get a medical exam at this camp for displaced people, where many families live in tents and even clean water is at a premium. But the diagnosis was something else: mpox, a virus that's sweeping through eastern DRC, into Uganda and beyond.
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Jul 30, 2024 | 
allafrica.com | Apophia Agiresaasi
Kampala, Uganda — The government boosted pay to attract and retain public school teachers. As far as private school students are concerned, it's worked a little too well. Avis Natukunda would still be in private school if it weren't for a lack of teachers. The aspiring economist needed to pass her exams to be able to go to university, but when she sought out her teachers, particularly her math teacher, to go over materials she didn't understand, they were nowhere to be found.
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Jul 29, 2024 | 
globalpressjournal.com | Apophia Agiresaasi |GPJ Uganda
KAMPALA, UGANDA — Avis Natukunda would still be in private school if it weren’t for a lack of teachers. The aspiring economist needed to pass her exams to be able to go to university, but when she sought out her teachers, particularly her math teacher, to go over materials she didn’t understand, they were nowhere to be found. So, in the middle of the 2023 school year, Natukunda, 17, asked her parents to transfer her from the private school she’d attended for four years to a public school.
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May 26, 2024 | 
worldcrunch.com | Edna Namara |Apophia Agiresaasi |Ignacio Pereyra
I like to believe that the belief that the woman is the one who should be in charge of children is beginning to die down in some places. In addition to alleviating some of the burden — real and symbolic — on mothers, it opens the door for men to be more responsible — to fulfill our role as fathers, let's say. Navigating the demands of early parenthood Lorenzo, our oldest son (five years old), is doing well at the moment.
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May 22, 2024 | 
worldcrunch.com | Emmanuel Grasland |Edna Namara |Apophia Agiresaasi
GeopoliticsLeader of Rassemblement National Marine Le Pen giving a speech on May 19GeopoliticsLeader of Rassemblement National Marine Le Pen giving a speech on May 19You've reached your limit of free articles. To read the full story, start your free trial today. Get unlimited access. Cancel anytime. Exclusive coverage from the world's top sources, in English for the first time. Insights from the widest range of perspectives, languages and countries.
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May 7, 2024 | 
allafrica.com | Edna Namara |Apophia Agiresaasi
Kampala, Uganda — "The gospel that is being preached on the pulpit these days is just meant to insult and belittle us," says a Ugandan churchgoer. Moses has been on the run. "Wherever I go, I am witch-hunted after people discovered that I am a homosexual," he says, his voice trembling. Moses, who identifies as gay and chose to use only his first name for fear of retribution, had managed to keep his sexuality a secret for a long time.
