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Jan 21, 2025 | 
allafrica.com | Nakisanze Segawa
Kampala, Uganda — The government's move to transfer many public construction projects to the military has worsened fears about President Museveni's concentration of power. In 2021, the Ugandan government announced a policy that the military would take on all new government-funded construction projects in the health and education sectors.
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Jan 20, 2025 | 
globalpressjournal.com | Nakisanze Segawa |GPJ Uganda
KAMPALA, UGANDA — In 2021, the Ugandan government announced a policy that the military would take on all new government-funded construction projects in the health and education sectors. In the years since, the scope of the directive has unofficially widened to include most public-sector projects, and private contractors say they’re struggling to maintain their businesses. There’s growing concern that the directive is the latest in a series of moves to consolidate and centralize power.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
theugpost.com | Nakisanze Segawa
By Nakisanze Segawa, WAKISO, UGANDA — A little more than a year after Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni signed one of the world’s harshest LGBTQ+ laws, another bill under parliamentary review has reignited concerns over the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and other sexual and gender minorities in the country — as well as single parents.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
allafrica.com | Nakisanze Segawa
Wakiso, Uganda — Proponents say the bill brings needed oversight to a key health care procedure. Detractors say it's the latest in a campaign against gender and sexual minorities. A little more than a year after Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni signed one of the world's harshest LGBTQ+ laws, another bill under parliamentary review has reignited concerns over the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and other sexual and gender minorities in the country -- as well as single parents.
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
globalpressjournal.com | Nakisanze Segawa
WAKISO, UGANDA — A little more than a year after Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni signed one of the world’s harshest LGBTQ+ laws, another bill under parliamentary review has reignited concerns over the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and other sexual and gender minorities in the country — as well as single parents.
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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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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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Aug 19, 2024 | 
worldcrunch.com | Nakisanze Segawa
LGBTQ Plus Ariana Mutomi says she witnessed manipulation of the asylum process at Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya by people who admitted to her they were pretending to be gender and sexual minorities for asylum opportunities. LGBTQ Plus Ariana Mutomi says she witnessed manipulation of the asylum process at Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya by people who admitted to her they were pretending to be gender and sexual minorities for asylum opportunities.
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Jun 13, 2024 | 
allafrica.com | Nakisanze Segawa
Kampala, Uganda — Uganda's anti-homosexuality laws offer plentiful reasons for transgender, gay and other gender and sexual minorities to seek asylum abroad. But some heterosexual people have seen an easy ticket out for themselves. In July 2015, Uganda didn't feel safe for Ariana Mutomi. It was just over a year after President Yoweri Museveni signed an anti-homosexuality bill into law.
