Tag: UGANDA

Geostrategic magazine (26 April 2025)

From global think tanks The analyses published here do not necessarily reflect the strategic thinking of The Global Eye Today’s about: Brazil; Canada; China; China-Pakistan; Europe;...

Daily news – February 9, 2022

News from: Al Jazeera, Brookings, East Asia Forum, Global Times, Key4Biz, Reuters, RFE RL, The Jamestown Foundation, ThinkChina, US Department of State  AFRICA The criticality of...

Detained Ugandan satirical novelist tortured in custody: Lawyer (Al Jazeera)

A Ugandan satirical novelist and critic of President Yoweri Museveni and his son have been tortured in captivity, his lawyer has said. Kakwenza Rukirabashaija, who...

China and Uganda’s Entebbe International Airport: Reading between the lines (Abhishek Mishra, ORF)

Just days before the eighth edition of the high-profile Forum on China Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) Ministerial Conference took place in Dakar, Senegal, China got...

Western companies are blind to Ugandan investments – President Museveni (Elias Biryabarema and Karin Strohecker, Reuters)

Chinese private investment in Uganda is growing while Westerners are losing appetite to put money to work in the country, President Yoweri Museveni told...

Who are Islamic State’s affiliates in Congo and Uganda? (Hereward Holland, Reuters)

Uganda and Democratic Republic of Congo have announced joint operations against an Islamic State-linked militia based in eastern Congo, which is blamed for a...

After air raids, Uganda sends troops into DRC to hunt ADF (Al Jazeera)

Ugandan troops have crossed into the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) as part of a joint operation against the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF),...

Blast in Ugandan capital Kampala kills one, injures five (Al Jazeera)

An explosion in Uganda’s capital Kampala, that killed one and injured five, was “a terrorist act”, according to President Yoweri Museveni, who promised to...

Illegal Wildlife Trade in Uganda: Tracking Progress on ‘Following the Money’ (Cathy Haenlein and Vincent Opyene, RUSI)

Uganda occupies a critical position as a logistics hub for transnational flows of illegally sourced wildlife. As a source, consolidation and transit country, it...

Uganda. A call to rethink sugarcane sub-sector to address rural poverty in Uganda (Alon Mwesigwa, EPCR)

While Uganda has seen a jump in sugarcane production, this has come as a result of more land being tilled than improvement in production...

Uganda. Maternal Health Care Among Refugees and Host Communities in Northern Uganda. Access, Quality, and Discrimination (Tonny Odokonyero and Francis Mwesigye,EPRC)

Our analyses do not reveal large differences between refugees and the host community in terms of access to and the quality of maternal health...

Uganda. Harassment of Civil Society Groups (HRW)

Ugandan authorities on August 20, 2021, announced without prior notification that they had halted the activities of 54 civil society groups, including human rights and...

Afghanistan/Uganda. Uganda Welcomes First Group of Afghan Refugees (VoA)

Agence France-Presse A flight carrying Afghan evacuees fleeing the Taliban takeover of their country touched down early Wednesday in Uganda where they will be given...

Afghan Refugees Expected in Uganda (VoA)

Halima Athumani Ugandan officials have confirmed the country will be receiving 145 evacuees from Afghanistan on Sunday. After days of discussion, Uganda has confirmed it will...

Uganda – The impact of COVID-19 on industries without smokestacks in Uganda (Brookings)

Madina M. Guloba, Medard Kakuru, and Sarah N. Ssewanyana write for Brookings: In Uganda, the spread of COVID-19 and its economic impacts gained momentum in March...

Uganda – Employment creation potential, labor skills requirements, and skill gaps for young people: A Uganda case study (Brookings)

Madina M. Guloba, Medard Kakuru, Sarah N. Ssewanyana, and Jakob Rauschendorfer writes: Over the course of the last decade, Uganda’s economic growth has ranked among sub-Saharan Africa’s...