Lydia Namubiru

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Editor-in-Chief at The Continent

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Articles

À Khartoum, le Palais républicain cristallise la rivalité de deux généraux soudanais

1 month ago | courrierinternational.com | Lydia Namubiru

Situé sur les rives du Nil Bleu à Khartoum, le Palais républicain représente le centre symbolique de l’État soudanais – du moins de ce qu’il en reste. Il est actuellement assiégé. Des unités combattant pour les forces armées soudanaises (SAF), commandées par Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, se trouvent à quelques pâtés de maisons de là, après avoir progressé rapidement dans certaines parties de la capitale.
Sudan: A poisoned palace in a violent stalemate

2 months ago | mg.co.za | Lydia Namubiru

The symbolic centre of the Sudanese state – what’s left of it, anyway – is the Republican Palace, a compound on the banks of the Blue Nile in Khartoum. It is currently under siege. Units fighting for the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), commanded by Abdel Fattah Al- Burhan, are just a few blocks away, after advancing rapidly through parts of thecapital city.
Big Agriculture is watching critics pesticides and GMO food

Nov 4, 2024 | mg.co.za | Lydia Namubiru |Elena DeBre |Margot Gibbs

Blakk Rasta is a Ghanaian musician and broadcast journalist. He is also careful about what he eats. He says he has been a vegan for 25 years and does not eat white wheat, fish, “anything that is canned or processed,” or drink iced water. This has made him an avid, if amateur, researcher of food and how it is grown. It’s also made him a target for an industrialised smear campaign with big backing in the United States.
What’s Next For The LGBTQIA+ Activists Fighting Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Laws

Jun 27, 2024 | service95.com | Lydia Namubiru |Olivia McCrea-Hedley

LGBTQIA+, Social Justice & Activism, Activism | By On 29 May 2023, Uganda passed its draconian anti-homosexuality law, rolling back what little progress had been made in the preceding decades of LGBTQIA+ activism. Despite a court petition by 22 activists, including two featured here, on 3 April this year, the country’s Constitutional Court largely upheld the law, including its harshest clauses – a death penalty and life imprisonment in some cases.
Protests in African nations have more than doubled in the past five years

Jun 10, 2024 | mg.co.za | Lydia Namubiru |Des Erasmus

This year alone, Moroccans have held more than 100 protests over wages and the cost of living. From Agadir to Rabat, cleaners, engineers, health workers and retirees have staged sit-ins demanding better and more timely pay, and action on high consumer prices. “Everything is expensive and wages have not changed much except for teachers,” says Moroccan journalist Mohamed Acheari.
Kenyan women rage in battle for their lives

Feb 10, 2024 | mg.co.za | Lydia Namubiru

Tens of thousands of Kenyans marched for women’s safety, but some of the country’s leaders missed the point entirely. In Kenya’s largest-ever protest against gender-based violence, thousands of women and their allies marched the streets of Nairobi, Mombasa, Kisumu, Eldoret, Kilifi and other towns. The protests followed a surge in the number of women killed in the country. Media reported 14 cases in January alone.
Loss and damage climate fund: Rich countries give with one hand, take with the other

Dec 3, 2023 | mg.co.za | Lydia Namubiru

On the first day of COP28, the UN climate summit happening in Dubai, delegates rose to their feet to applaud a major announcement: five rich countries, plus the European Union, have pledged $420-million as seed funding for a new “loss and damage fund”. The fund, agreed in principle at last year’s COP27, will help developing countries respond to the impacts of climate change. Two days earlier, there was another bit of good news.
How Africa weathers the climate storm

Sep 13, 2023 | mg.co.za | Lydia Namubiru

In Nairobi last week, African leaders gathered alongside some of this continent’s smartest minds for the first-ever Africa Climate Summit. Their goal: to figure out how African countries are going to survive in a much warmer world. And what it will cost. The summit was, in part, a reaction to the failure of the developed world to take meaningful responsibility for causing the climate crisis (Africa is responsible for just 4% of global emissions).
Vacío legal en EEUU permite donaciones secretas a grupos de ultraderecha

Jul 7, 2023 | rebelion.org | Lydia Namubiru
New Analysis Shows Nearly 200 Trump Loyalists Believed He Told Them to Attack Capitol on Jan. 6

Jul 7, 2023 | truthout.org | Chris Walker |Jake Johnson |Sharon Zhang |Lydia Namubiru