WorldcrunchApophia Agiresaasi is a Global Press Journal reporter based in Kampala, Uganda. She specializes in reporting on health and politics.
Family ties are shaping Uganda’s Parliament. People who die in office are increasingly succeeded by close relatives — children, spouses or even siblings — and often with strong support from political parties and local communities. At least five members of the current Parliament have succeeded their relatives, and in previous Parliaments, multiple members did as well.
Rife with understaffed hospitals, corrupt licensing and people who claim to be doctors, the health system struggles to protect patients from deadly medical fraud.
Health officials in Uganda told Global Press Journal to ignore information provided by health workers at the border.
“The gospel that is being preached on the pulpit these days is just meant to insult and belittle us,” says a Ugandan churchgoer.