Health workers wearing protective suits lower the body of a COVID-19 victim for burial at a graveyard in Gulu, northern Uganda.
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Uganda needs to activate the community engagement pillar and resource the new strategy that’s in place.
Traders leave their cabbages after the County Governor ordered the closure of the main open air market to curb the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus in Kisumu, Kenya.
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Lockdowns to curb the spread of COVID-19 had various effects on food as it went from farms to plates.
Supporters of the National Resistance Movement celebrate.
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These appointments provoked debate in Uganda, reflecting both the constraints and the possibilities of women’s rights reform in an authoritarian country.
Congolese women at the border crossing with Uganda at Bunagana in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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Within already economically perilous border areas, informal cross border trade is even more vulnerable during a pandemic.
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Digital media shutdowns in Africa will lead to higher economic costs and greater public outrage.
Appropriately designed taxes on sugar-sweetened beverages would result in proportional reductions in consumption.
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Without reliable, local and timely data, countries will miss the potential of sugar-sweetened beverage taxation as a public health intervention.
The competing interests of economic growth and public health aren’t being managed well.
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Implementing a sugar-sweetened beverage tax in all African countries will require sufficient political will and support from civil society.
A patrol car of the Ugandan police is seen stationed outside the headquarters of the Uganda oppposition party National Unity Platform (NUP) on January 20, 2021.
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Arbitrary detention and torture are both prohibited under local and international laws.
An initiate parades through his village in Mbale, Uganda.
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Sacred sites where rituals are performed by the community should be protected as living archives that house local heritage.
Two men work their maize crop in Uganda’s Kapchorwa district.
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The government intervening to ensure food safety will increase awareness among producers and consumers.
Protesters march towards a line of Kenyan riot police during post-election violence in Nairobi in 2007.
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It is often assumed that patrimonial beliefs fuel electoral malpractice whereas civic ones challenge it, but this is an oversimplification.
Muslim women and children in Lamu in north east Kenya. Al-Shabaab’s recruitment of female members is most evident in coastal and north eastern counties.
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Women’s motivations for joining terrorist networks belie Kenyan media accounts of naive girls manipulated through romantic notions of Jihadi brides or wives.
The doum palm is an indigenous tree in Kenya which produces edible fruit.
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Africa’s key to future food-nutrition security may depend on the untapped potential of indigenous fruit trees.
Activists highlight some of the United Nations’ 17 sustainable development goals in Lima, Peru (February 20, 2017).
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A new report from the GovLab and the French Development Agency (AFD) examines how development practitioners are experimenting with emerging forms of technology to advance development goals.
Dominic Ongwen (centre) sits in the court room of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, on December 6, 2016.
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The International court did not allow Dominic Ongwen’s background to colour the legal determination of his criminal liability.
Dominic Ongwen enters the court room of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, on December 6, 2016.
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Former fighters described Ongwen as a model fighter and an effective commander – but testimony in his trial detailed the former child soldier’s alleged personal role in the rape of underage women.
Victim and perpetrator: Lord’s Resistance Army commander Dominic Ongwen at the International Criminal Court.
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Sex and gender-based offences have become an increasing focus of war crimes trials at the International Criminal Court.
Public participation has been found to increase voluntary cash contributions for the construction of schools in Ugandan sub-counties.
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Public participation increased the quality and quantity of some public services, though not in all sectors, and some services were affected more than others.
The Batwa community are believed to be one of the original inhabitants of the Equatorial Forest in the Great Lakes Region.
Despite being highly affected by a changing climate, Uganda’s Batwa community lack voice, agency and influence in climate adaptation planning and actions.
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Improved seeds can alleviate a food security crisis deepened by COVID-19.