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Coincidentally, on April 2, another figure in the same tradition, Cameroonian Catholic Cardinal Christian Wiyghan Tumi died. ..

Magufuli’s death, and a close call for Uganda’s oil pipeline

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"As a landlocked country, Uganda needs to avoid locking itself in a dogmatic relationship with its neighbours.”

Uganda can make $1.2 trillion green magic – for a song

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Uganda’s land surface had a forest cover of 24 per cent in 1990 and by 2015, this had shrunk to about 8 per cent

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When Singapore was looking to reform its health system in the 1960s, it sent a delegation to Uganda

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Bobi Wine and the Gordian  Knot in Ugandan politics

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