Category People

A young Ugandan woman called Vicky Ajok is locked up in a Syrian jail right now, facing a possible death sentence for something that happened far from home. Uganda does not even have an embassy in Syria, so almost nobody…

The long-running battle over Buganda Kingdom land just got bigger — and more serious. The Kabaka of Buganda, Ronald Muwenda Mutebi II, has been fighting to reclaim properties that were taken during the 1966 crisis and later “returned” but are…

Bulawayo just made history. Sex workers, young women, and other high-risk groups in Zimbabwe’s second-biggest city are now queuing up for a new HIV prevention injection called Lenacapavir that only needs to be taken twice a year. Instead of swallowing…

This one hits hard. A man from Jinja named John Wataka was told in 2016 that he was HIV positive. For seven long years he swallowed ARVs every single day, thinking his life depended on it. He lost his marriage,…

A shocking and deeply tragic incident has rocked the Uganda Prisons Service. Early this morning at Kiboga Prison, a junior warden allegedly opened fire on his superiors, killing two senior officers and the wife of the Officer in Charge before…