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.
Hearts and minds: the 2021 election has been bitterly contested.
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In a bitterly contested election, the government is seeking to control the message by shutting down the internet.
A jaguar skin lies sprawled across a fence post in one of the Brazilian Pantanal’s many cow ranches. This individual was shot by a rancher after a cow was found dead on the ranch.
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Compensation for losses from wildlife is an increasingly popular conservation intervention. However, a recent review cautions its use.
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In Uganda, young people’s knowledge of national political institutions, and on how they would claim and advocate for their rights as citizens, was remarkably low.
‘Night commuter’ girls in Gulu, norhern Uganda in 2006. The girls walk into the city after dark to evade capture by the Lords Resistance Army.
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Their mothers were forcibly married or raped during Uganda’s vicious civil war. Now these children are ‘non people’.
Young people constitute over 77% of Uganda’s population.
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Major challenges in the youth empowerment policy implementation mean that young people don’t benefit from start-up funding.
Many hospitals permit nurses to initiate and manage patients on ART.
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The giant leap in the number of people accessing HIV treatment would not have been possible without task shifting from medical doctors to less-specialised cadres such as nurses and midwives.
Ugandan singer-turned-politician Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine being arrested on charges of unlawful assembly.
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In surpassing opposition stalwart Kizza Besigye, Robert Kyagulanyi has done what many Ugandans thought impossible. But can he topple Museveni?
Antimicrobial resistance is a real threat.
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In some countries there appear to be mismatches between lists of essential medicines and lists of registered medicines.
It has long been recognised that mental disorders can run in families. And often members of such families differ in their symptoms.
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Research on the genetic basis of mental illness has so far largely excluded anyone who is not of European heritage.
A man is chasing away a swarm of desert locusts early in the morning, on May 21, 2020 in Samburu County, Kenya.
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The best option to manage desert locusts is to manage them at their breeding sites with sustainable options, such as biopesticides.
Kyangwali Refugee Settlement and Reception Centre in Uganda.
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The country has been praised for the humane treatment of its vast refugee population. Now questions arise about how it can continue to do so without without assistance from aid workers.
Vendors sell potatoes in a street market on the outskirts of Nairobi.
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Potato cyst nematodes suppress crop growth and can cause huge yield losses of up to 80%, and even total crop failure.
Uganda is preparing for its next election amid COVID-19 containment measures.
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Debate is raging as to whether Uganda can hold a scientific election, preceded by mass media and digital campaigns.
A farmer inspects his maize in Uganda.
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Low productivity is one of the biggest challenges facing Uganda’s maize industry. But smallholder farmers still won’t adopt improved seed.
A young African farmer.
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Africa is far from having an ageing farming population. What is missing is a critical mass of skilled, young farmers with access to finance who could drive productivity in farming.
AirQo monitoring system on a ‘boda boda’.
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Kampala, like many other cities in sub-Saharan Africa, has a critical data gap on the scale and magnitude of air pollution.
Refugee children in Bidibidi resettlement camp, northern Uganda.
Refugees invest a great amount of effort in solving disputes among themselves, and with surrounding host community members.
Ugandan farmer with adviser looking at milk records for a dairy cow.
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Many of the tools needed to tap into the potential of Africa’s livestock sector exist already.