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Uganda

  • Wednesday, 4 September, 2024
    Uganda’s Bobi Wine ‘out of danger’ after being injured in police incident

    Pop singer turned opposition leader taken to hospital after being wounded by exploding tear gas canister

    Bobi Wine gives a speech with his daughter Suubi and son Shadrack Mbogo during a public screening of the documentary ‘Bobi Wine: The People’s President’ to celebrate a 2024 Oscar nomination at the HQ of the National Unity Platform in Kampala in January
  • Thursday, 4 January, 2024
    Tej Parikh
    How Britain’s Ugandan Asians forged a successful path for refugees

    My family’s journey shows the lessons the UK could learn for resettling today’s asylum seekers

    Montage image of families with luggage and a sign saying ‘arrivals’
  • Wednesday, 6 December, 2023
    HTSIHow To Give It 2023
    Dennis Okwera – the light of Lumule

    The model escaped his native village in Uganda as a child. Two decades later, he’s rebuilding its community

    Schoolchildren in class at Lumule primary school, Uganda
  • Thursday, 31 August, 2023
    ReviewFilm
    Bobi Wine: The People’s President — portrait of Uganda’s young hopeful

    The pop star turned politician confronts the established order in this urgent documentary

    A man wearing a red uniform with beret stands amid demonstrators in a street, shaking his fist
  • Saturday, 26 August, 2023
    FT Magazine
    Whose gorillas are more famous?

    Being the only black tourist on a Ugandan gorilla trek throws up difficult questions about how African countries market themselves to western visitors

    Mountain gorilla
  • Wednesday, 9 August, 2023
    World Bank freezes new lending to Uganda over LGBT+ crackdown

    Move by Washington-based lender could spur other institutions and western nations to follow suit, say analysts

    A person draped in a flag with hands clasped in prayer
  • Monday, 26 June, 2023
    OutlookJosh Spero
    Uganda shows LGBT+ people face growing danger globally

    The legislation is not an outlier but is echoed by anti-gay measures and rhetoric in the US and Turkey

    A man putting clothes into a suitcase
  • Monday, 19 June, 2023
    Rebels accused of killing dozens of school children in Uganda

    Kampala says Allied Democratic Forces slaughtered 37 people and abducted six others

  • Thursday, 15 June, 2023
    David Pilling
    When homophobia comes with a convenient anti-colonial veneer

    Uganda is presenting punitive new legislation as a defence of sovereign rights

    An LGBT+ person hides their face behind a rainbow coloured fan
  • Tuesday, 23 May, 2023
    Exchange traded funds
    Asian institutions join global swing to active ETFs

    For Apac investors especially, the possibility of intraday trading is one of the vehicle’s biggest selling factors

    Joggers run in front of a view of the skyline of Singapore’s financial district
  • Friday, 28 October, 2022
    UK society
    ‘We have come a long way’: ‘Twice migrant’ Asians celebrate Sunak’s arrival as UK prime minister

    First non-white occupant of Downing Street marks a major milestone for community that migrated from east African nations

    Prime Minister Rishi Sunak hosts a reception to celebrate Diwali in No 10 Downing Street on October 26
  • Wednesday, 14 September, 2022
    Behind the Money podcast23 min listen
    Inside the fight to stop an oil pipeline in Africa

    The FT’s Leslie Hook explains how environmental activists are approaching their battle against the project in Uganda and Tanzania

  • Sunday, 24 July, 2022
    Russian politics
    Sergei Lavrov on Africa tour to counter accusation Russia is ‘exporting hunger’

    Russian foreign minister to visit Ethiopia, Uganda and the Republic of the Congo after Egypt on Sunday

    Sergei Lavrov and Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in Cairo
  • Tuesday, 21 June, 2022
    FT Schools
    Students call for better pandemic teaching methods and learning materials

    Winners of FT Schools/World Bank youth blog competition offer solutions to issues with online study

    Three children writing and reading
  • Friday, 10 June, 2022
    News in-depthDisease control and prevention
    Preventing another Covid-19: Ugandan lab leads hunt for zoonotic diseases

    Drive to identify emerging viruses that pass from animals to humans comes amid fears over spread of monkeypox

    Montage of a man wearing personal protective equipment adding liquid to a test tube, and virus cells shown under a microscope
  • Thursday, 14 April, 2022
    Venice Biennale 2022
    What not to miss in and around the Venice Biennale

    From a fountain of fire to a Lebanese egg, via crystal trees, Nepali and Omani newcomers and art from Ukraine

    A large stone fountain with fire instead of water
  • Tuesday, 12 April, 2022
    The Big Read
    The oil giants drilling among the giraffes in Uganda

    With activists lined up against it, the Lake Albert project is a litmus test for oil development in the age of net zero

    Construction work, Albert Lake, Murchison Falls National Park, Uganda, December 2021. Chinese and French oil giants sealed a landmark $ 10-billion deal to develop Uganda’s energy resources and build a vast regional oil pipeline
  • Monday, 28 February, 2022
    Chinese politics & policy
    Chinese lenders squeeze African borrowers even harder

    Ugandan government has to place all revenue from Entebbe airport into an escrow account

    A billboard near Entebbe airport advertises the CCCC’s (China Communications Construction Company) road between Entebbe and Kampala
  • Friday, 4 February, 2022
    ObituaryEmmanuel Tumusiime-Mutebile
    Emmanuel Tumusiime-Mutebile, Central Bank of Uganda governor, 1949-2022

    A brilliant economist who was central to his nation’s economic revival

    Emmanuel Tumusiime-Mutebile, governor of the Central Bank of Uganda
  • Tuesday, 1 February, 2022
    TotalEnergies
    Total gives green light to $10bn Uganda oil project

    Megaproject will turn east African country into an oil producer for the first time

    Containers of crude oil at a test drilling site at Lake Albert in Uganda
  • Tuesday, 11 January, 2022
    The Big Read
    China applies brakes to Africa lending

    Beijing has signalled a more cautious approach amid warnings that several African countries could struggle to repay debts

  • Tuesday, 16 November, 2021
    Africa
    Three killed in Uganda bomb attack blamed on Isis-linked group

    Dozens injured in Kampala suicide blasts amid fear of jihadi threat spreading across east and central Africa

    Wrecked police vehicles in Kampala
  • Tuesday, 2 November, 2021
    Raghuram Rajan
    Reducing global emissions can be simple and self-financing

    The world needs a plan that supplants fuzzy commitments with real penalties for the big polluters

    Machinery used to fracture shale formations at a site near Mentone, Texas
  • Wednesday, 22 September, 2021
    David Pilling
    Setbacks for Uganda’s girls and boys offer a cautionary lockdown tale

    Measures relied on by richer nations have inadvertently erased decades of progress in education and child poverty

    An estimated 15m Ugandan children have missed out on an education since schools were closed last March
  • Monday, 30 August, 2021
    News in-depthAfghanistan
    Africa and Latin America become stopovers for Afghan refugees

    Developing countries offer to house evacuees until they can be resettled in wealthier nations

    Afghan families walk towards their flight during evacuations at Hamid Karzai International Airport, in Kabul, Afghanistan
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