Uganda

ADF STAFF Shortly after South Africa reopened its schools last year, a student at Isolemamba High School in KwaZulu-Natal province contracted COVID-19. Then five teachers also tested positive, prompting the school to close for two days.…

ADF STAFF When COVID-19 hit Uganda in March 2020, teacher Ocwee Irene Trends knew she had to take drastic action. The country entered into a strict lockdown and closed all the schools. Ocwee had a feeling it would be a long time…

ADF STAFF More than 800 military personnel from Djibouti, Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda and other countries gathered in Kenya and Rwanda for three weeks of field training and command post exercises to strengthen their ability to work together…

ADF STAFF Many Africans are closely following the news of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on television or the radio, but they are also feeling its impact somewhere much closer to home: the market. The ripple effect of Russia’s war…

ADF STAFF In confronting future waves of COVID-19, policymakers are faced with a difficult question: How restrictive should lockdowns be? After two years of the pandemic, with immunity levels slowly rising alongside fatigue, the…

ADF STAFF After operating for nearly 15 years, the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) has begun transferring duties to a new AU mission that will replace it — the African Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS). AMISOM’s mandate…

ADF STAFF A new gas pipeline stretching from southern Nigeria toward the Mediterranean Sea could open Africa’s vast and largely untapped reserves of natural gas to foreign markets, creating an alternative to Europe’s reliance on energy…

ADF STAFF The use of a self-guided drone on the Libyan battlefield may have been a first in Africa. Now experts are voicing concern about their expanded use. In March 2020, as fighters loyal to Libyan Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar…

ADF STAFF After two years of COVID-19, the disease severity is substantially lower among children and adolescents, compared with adults, scientific studies have reported. Not so in Africa. A new multicountry study in Africa found…

ADF STAFF As debts mount in many African countries, civil society groups are calling for greater transparency so citizens can track exactly how public money is spent. One example of this is Kenya, where authorities are refusing to…