As well-to-do refugees settle in Kampala’s suburbs, Ugandans say they’re being priced out.
Author: Nakisanze Segawa
Nakisanze Segawa is a Global Press Journal reporter based in Kampala, Uganda. She specializes in reporting on issues of health and human rights. Born in Luweero and raised in Uganda’s capital city, she holds a degree in mass communications from Muteesa I Royal University. Her coverage of school policies that forced Black girls to keep their hair short while girls of other races could grow their hair long provoked outcry on social media and led to a policy change.
Tobacco farming in Uganda has resulted in the loss of trees key to the diets of chimpanzees and baboons, increasing human-primate interactions — and the risk for disease spillover.
Tobacco farming in Uganda has resulted in the loss of trees key to the diets of chimpanzees and baboons, increasing human-primate interactions — and the risk for disease spillover.
Elon Musk, an unelected US official leading budget cuts, claims funding to contain Uganda’s Ebola outbreak “accidentally” ended temporarily. Ugandan officials say the US still offers support, but health workers argue that US help is gone.
Uganda’s Supreme Court in January banned the trial of civilians in military court with immediate effect. In practice, people who oppose President Yoweri Museveni remain in prison — and with even fewer ways to get out.
Health officials in Uganda told Global Press Journal to ignore information provided by health workers at the border.
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.