By Nakisanze Segawa, Global Press Journal Uganda. This story was originally published by Global Press Journal. LWENGO, UGANDA — Ahmed was certain the test result was wrong. It was 2003, and he and his five months-pregnant wife were at a health facility where she was getting a checkup. As staff did for all expectant parents,…
In early June 2021, President Yoweri Museveni banned private and public transport as part of the strict lockdown re-imposed in an effort to curtail the spread of Covid-19 variants. The newest lockdown measures for 42days prohibited transportation inside and across country districts, even in Kampala but the only exceptions to the rule were vehicles transporting…
Ben Musanje works with Radio Sapientia in his interview with the Health Journalists Network talks about his story about a spike in torture cases recorded by the African Centre for Rehabilitation of Torture Victims which was published by HEJNU. Ben’s interview with HEJNU was under the ‘Mobilizing Media Fighting Covid19’ project by Journalists for Human Rights which…
Uganda through the National Medical Stores has this Thursday afternoon received an additional consignment of 655,053 doses of Astrazeneca Covid-19 vaccine. Of these, 501,153 doses are donations from the French government while 153,900 doses are from the Belgian government. This is the second consignment of COVID-19 vaccines from the French government to Uganda after the first…
Christine Nantambi, 26, a housewife and mother of two children had spent six years in a peaceful cohabitation marriage with her fiancé Ivan Kasule, 29, a resident of Quarter Zone, Kanyanya Parish in Kawempe Division. Once the pandemic broke out last year and a lockdown was announced everything in her marriage changed for the worst. In…
By Ben Musanje The African Center for Rehabilitation of Treatment of Torture Victims – ACTV has recorded an increase of torture cases during the COVID-19 pandemic. President Yoweri Museveni during a public address on TV has since asked the security forces to stop torturing citizens because they are enforcing COVID-19 regualtions. Most of the cases…
Bosco Mbabazi will perhaps live to remember Uganda’s Covid19 second lockdown. Five days after president Yoweri Museveni’s address of June 18 th sending Ugandans into a second total lockdown, Mbabazi tasted the wrath of security men. Mbabazi, a resident of Makindye West III zone recounts events that show three of his teeth allegedly removed by…
Some of the measures put in place by the government in response to COVID-19 have negatively impacted maternal, child and neonatal health, according to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). UNFPA says the biggest and longest lasting impact is seen in complications of pregnancy, stillbirths and low-birth weight infants likely due to delayed care-seeking…
The African Center for Rehabilitation of Treatment of Torture Victims – ACTV has recorded an increase of torture cases during the COVID-19 pandemic. President Yoweri Museveni during a public address on TV has since asked the security forces to stop torturing citizens because they are enforcing COVID-19 regualtions. Most of the cases recorded were inflicted…
By Ben Musanje Days after President Yoweri Museveni has just rebuked Uganda’s security forces for using excessive violence, the Inspector General of Police (IGP) Martin Okoth Ochola has admitted that some elements in the force still use torture to extract information from suspects. In a televised address on Saturday, Museveni publicly slammed security forces for using torture…