Children with Spina bifida, hydrocephalus denied access to hospitals during lockdown

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: Interview on spike in torture cases during COVID-19

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 receives more COVID-19 vaccine donations from France and Belgium

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…

Police tortures suspects for information- IGP Ochola concedes

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…