ADF school attack: A ‘suicidal’ sense of economic exclusion makes Uganda amenable to terrorism
Kaduyu says the ADF’s recent attacks have increased discrimination against Muslim communities, leading to a decline in interfaith and community relations. Uganda’s Internal Affairs Minister, Major General Kahinda Otafiire, visited a Kampala primary school for Eid al-Adha in June to raise awareness around Islamist extremism and dissuade communities from supporting violent extremist ideologies. He urged the police to stop profiling Muslim citizens as terrorists.
Russia, Ukraine trade blame over who’s behind imminent attack on Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant
President Zelensky and the Ukrainian military also provided no evidence for their assertions. None of the reactors at the plant is producing electricity. In his nightly video message, Zelensky said Russia was planning to “simulate an attack on the plant. Or they could have some other kind of scenario.
Experts: Lift on logging ban in Kenya is expected to fuel unbridled harvesting of endangered species
While stakeholders have not yet received full details of the government’s methodology for deciding which trees are ready to harvest, Kioli said a nationwide lifting of the ban would make it difficult to monitor the move’s environmental impacts.
Covid vaccine news censorship: Judge bars Biden administration from working with social media
“The evidence in our case is shocking and offensive with senior federal officials deciding that they could dictate what Americans can and cannot say on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and other platforms about Covid-19, elections, criticism of the government and more,” Landry said in a statement.
How poor Uganda transited from cheap slave labour to illicit hawking of body organs
The organ trade is already scaring many Ugandans, especially the poor, away from government and even private hospitals, fearing that their organs or those of their people, will be stolen from them to renew the health of the rich in Uganda and abroad. They have heard that some big people are involved in the bloody trade, and may be in league with some health personnel to steal their organs.
When he seized power in Uganda, Museveni dabbled in barter trade then commodified goods, services and relationships
Today Uganda is firmly in the armpit of the IFIs, although China has also extended its ecological footprint through loans and projects, and the country’s debt which was in billions of shillings by the time Idi Amin was toppled from power by combined Obote and Museveni forces, is now over 80 trillion shillings after 37 years of President Tibuhaburwa Museveni’s rule, accompanied by untold impoverishment of once prosperous indigenous communities.
Medical doctors raise red flag over how US courts permit drugmaker Merck to sell killer asthma drug
Pre-emption defences became a centrepiece of the George W. Bush administration – and FDA policy under his presidency, Reuters reports. This was part of the Bush campaign’s promise to address what it described as “frivolous” lawsuits.
Big Pharma Merck under scrutiny for knowingly making killer asthma drug that leads children to suicide
Singulair, also known as montelukast, is available to adults and children as a medication for severe allergies and asthma. The drug “blocks chemicals, called leukotrienes, in the body,” according to Dr Michelle Perro, a paediatrician. Leukotrienes “can be involved in the precipitation of asthma and can cause respiratory symptoms, as well as inflammation of the airways,” Perro says.
Fears US Supreme Court decision to quash Affirmative Action will stall Black students’ education
What exactly does this mean for the future generations of Black students applying to institutions of higher education? It’s too early to tell, but we can guess from what’s happened in the nine states that have already eliminated affirmative action.
