Tag: Uganda
Tofiri Kibuuka, from skier for Uganda to runner for Norway
Tofiri Kibuuka is the first African to compete in the Paralympic Winter Games. It was in 1976 and 1980 for Uganda. Then, this visually impaired athlete left cross-country skiing to…
New massacre in eastern DRC, despite three months of operations against the ADF
On November 30, 2021, Ugandan soldiers entered the DRC to hunt down the ADF with the help of the Congolese army. This armed group, of Ugandan origin, is the deadliest…
Refugee in Germany, Ugandan writer Kakwenza Rukirabashaija recounts his journey
Arrested in December for tweets mocking President Yoweri Museveni’s son, Ugandan writer Kakwenza Rukirabashaija is now a refugee in Germany. Country he joined after a long journey that he tells…
Uganda calls ICJ ruling ‘unfair and wrong’ in DRC dispute
With our correspondent in Kigali, Laure Broulard In this case, Kinshasa had also seized the ICJ against another actor in this war, Rwanda. A request that never came to fruition.…
parliamentarians refuse credits to the army for the mission in the DRC
On Tuesday, the Parliamentary Budget Committee blocked a request for military funding. This money was intended for the Ugandan army’s military operation in eastern Congo called Shujaa. The soldiers officially…
After two years without lessons, young Ugandans find their way back to school
In Uganda, some 15 million students returned to school on Monday, January 10, after one of the longest school closures ever seen due to the pandemic. For almost two years,…