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The Well-Off Refugees Reshaping Uganda’s Housing Market

A view of Kyanja, a rapidly growing middle-income suburb on the outskirts of Kampala

As well-to-do refugees settle in Kampala’s suburbs, Ugandans say they’re being priced out.

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Charlatans In Lab Coats: Uganda’s Alarming “Fake Doctor” Epidemic

Charlatans In Lab Coats: Uganda’s Alarming “Fake Doctor” Epidemic
Barbara Kwarikunda poses with her daughter at their home in Kampala. Kwarikunda nearly lost her life after delivering at a health facility owned by a medical fraudster in March 2024. APOPHIA AGIRESAASI, GPJ UGANDA

Rife with understaffed hospitals, corrupt licensing and people who claim to be doctors, the health system struggles to protect patients from deadly medical fraud.

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To Secure Asylum, Some Ugandans Falsely Claim LGBTQ+ Status

A picture of ​Ariana Mutomi, a Ugandan transgender women.
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. Nakisanze Segawa/GPJ

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.

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