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Uganda’s Military Took Over Public-Sector Construction. Private Contractors Are Reeling.

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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Regulation or Discrimination? Uganda’s Proposed IVF Law Could Be Both.

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.
In Zambia, Woman Fishes for Small Fry

Nov 1, 2024 | globalpressjournal.com | Prudence Phiri

Connections Zambia, Africa Charity Silumesi fishes along the bank of the Luena River in Kaoma, Zambia. Silumesi says there are only small fish in the river, and catching them further depletes the fish stock. See all Connected Photos
Zambia Offers Health Care to Zimbabweans — but for How Long?

Oct 23, 2024 | globalpressjournal.com

Zambia is as generous with patients from neighboring Zimbabwe as it is with its own citizens. That could mean problems for both countries.
Sportswear Store Hosts Free Fitness Class in Zimbabwe

Oct 15, 2024 | globalpressjournal.com | Kudzai Mazvarirwofa

Zimbabwe, Africa Photo by Kudzai Mazvarirwofa See all Connected Photos
They Needed Money Fast. They Got It - Only to Lose Everything.

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.
Charcoal Ban Drives Up Prices in Uganda, Putting Small Businesses in a Bind

Aug 14, 2024 | globalpressjournal.com | Edna Namara |GPJ Uganda

KAMPALA, UGANDA — Gertrude Arineitwe spreads out her green polythene bag at the charcoal shelter. The charcoal seller, a woman from whom Arineitwe has bought charcoal for the past four years and who has become a friend, empties a spadeful of charcoal into the bag. Black dust wafts in the air. Soot-colored pieces fall into the bag, clanging as they land. Arineitwe watches, waiting for the seller to add more. But she doesn’t. She’s done — and the bag is only half full.
In Uganda, a Substantial Teacher Pay Raise Isn’t Good News for Everyone

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.
Student in Zambia Washes Cars to Cover School Costs

Jul 26, 2024 | globalpressjournal.com | Prudence Phiri

Connections Zambia, Africa Steven Mwale cleans a truck tire in Lusaka, Zambia. Though primary and secondary school tuition has been free since the beginning of 2022, Mwale works during holidays to help his parents cover the cost of books and uniforms.