Minister: Tanzania on course to wiping out TB in four years as incidence drops by 44 per cent
According to data cited by the health official, new tuberculosis cases in Tanzania declined from 306 per 100,000 people in 2015 to 172 per 100,000 in 2024, marking a 44 per cent decrease. Tuberculosis-related deaths also dropped from 56,000 to 23,500 over the same period, a reduction of 59 per cent.
Australia, India and Malawi to play Kenya in leg of Fifa Women’s Series four-nation tournament
Cabinet Secretary for Youth Affairs, Creative Economy and Sports Salim Mvurya said the competition will feature Kenya’s Harambee Starlets alongside Australia, India and Malawi.
Way Museveni’s abstract policies rendered indigenous Maragoli and other communities stateless in Uganda, nativised refugees
More fundamentally, the very presence of this parallel system enables the government to neglect its obligations to indigenous children, knowing that international sympathy will ensure refugee children are not entirely abandoned.
Museveni’s architecture of erasure: How Uganda president has disempowered indigenous people since coming to power in 1986
For four decades, a singular political project has defined the history of the territory once known as the British Uganda Protectorate. It is not a project of liberation, development or unity as its proponents claim. It is a project of erasure.
Wandering stranger: Turning and turning in widening gyre, Destiny has a way of writing the epilogue
For in solitude, the heart begins to respond to its own pulse, summoning thee soul to ebb and flow in the rhythm of the pulse. It is in the absence of noise that purpose whispers clearly. And I learned that sometimes God removes everyone else’s voice so you can finally hear His.
Tehran vows strong retaliation if Trump makes good threats of sweeping strikes on Iran’s power infrastructure
Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf on Sunday said that energy and oil infrastructure across the region could face “irreversible” destruction if the United States targets Iran’s power plants.
Fears rise in US Middle East conflict may undermine safe-haven appeal of dollarised assets
According to data from US-based Emerging Portfolio Fund Research cited by Reuters, global emerging market bond funds saw net outflows of around $1.1 billion in the week ending June 11. Meanwhile, the dollar index, which tracks the greenback against six major currencies, edged down 0.13 per cent on June 17 to close at 99.574.
Post-Raila Luo Nyanza: Who for president in 2027? A simple dilemma for the Luo Nation as pervasive corruptive trends emerge
Homa Bay Governor Gladys Wanga and Suna East Junet Mohammed instead of expressing that Baba had left them in a broad-based government and that they would continue if their conditions were satisfied, echoed that they would remain where Baba left them unconditionally.
Same forest, different monkeys: Understanding Uganda’s stalled independence from colonialism
These fifteen nations – Buganda, Bunyoro, Toro, Ankole, Busoga, Bukedi, Bugisu, Teso, Lango, Acholi, Alur, West Nile (containing multiple ethnicities), Karamoja, Kigezi and Sebei – each possessed sophisticated systems of governance, distinct cultural identities and established mechanisms for maintaining peace and security among their peoples. The British did not come to develop these nations; they came to conquer, control and exploit them.
How community-based micro-enterprise in Cape Verde is changing waste into school furniture
Launched in 2019, the initiative later developed into a community-based business. Today, the impact is visible in Sao Francisco, where cleaner streets reflect a growing awareness of recycling and waste management.