How a Farm Clinic in Lira Is Changing the Way Uganda’s Farmers Grow, Manage, and Get Paid

In Lira, something quietly significant took place at one of Uganda’s most respected agricultural research institutions. Farmers, scientists, and financiers sat in the same room, and actually listened to each other. The results could reshape how northern Uganda feeds itself.

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Uganda’s Dancers Are Fed Up With Being Seen as Society’s Leftovers

She moves with purpose, she performs for thousands, and yet somehow, in Uganda’s cultural imagination, a dancer is still just someone who couldn’t make it elsewhere. Ritah Dancehall has had enough of that narrative, and she’s saying so out loud. The conversation she’s started is long overdue.

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August 15, 2026
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Jose Chameleone’s Son Abba Marcus Arrested in Minnesota on Domestic Assault Charge

The son of one of Uganda’s most recognizable music icons is in police custody in the United States. Abba Marcus Mayanja, 20, was booked by Edina Police on August 14 over a domestic assault allegation, and it is not his first brush with such accusations this year.

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August 15, 2026
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111 Arrested at Ceuta’s Gates Two Weeks After a Mass Crossing Shook Europe

Two weeks after one of the largest single migration surges in modern European history, the border at Ceuta is crackling with tension again. Moroccan police moved fast on Saturday, detaining 111 people before they could cross into Spain’s north African territory. Social media, it seems, is now as powerful a pull factor as any smuggler’s network.

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August 15, 2026
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Technology

The Quiet Raid on the World’s Secondhand Bookshops: AI’s Hunger for Printed Words

Something odd has been sweeping through the world’s used bookshops, bulk orders of a scale that veteran sellers have simply never seen before. The culprit is not a rogue collector or an eccentric billionaire with warehouse space to fill. All signs point to artificial intelligence, and a court ruling that changed everything.

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August 15, 2026
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Sports

Kit Chaos at St James’ Park: Newcastle’s Mid-Game Strip Switch Against Leverkusen Raises Eyebrows

Pre-season friendlies rarely generate headlines, but Newcastle United managed to turn a routine warm-up fixture into a talking point. A kit clash, a halftime strip change, and a 2-1 defeat, welcome to life on Tyneside this summer.

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August 15, 2026
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Health

Too Soon, Too Fast: Uganda’s Postpartum Pregnancy Crisis and the Race to Protect New Mothers

A mother barely weeks out of the delivery room finding herself pregnant again, this is not a rare edge case in Uganda. It is a pattern. And now, the Health Ministry is moving to fix it.

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August 15, 2026
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Entertainment

Uganda Loses a Giant: Alex Mukulu, Theatre’s Sharpest Voice, Dead at 72

Uganda’s cultural landscape grew quieter on August 15, 2026, when Alex Mukulu, one of the country’s most celebrated theatre minds, passed away at the age of 72. The cause of his death has not been disclosed, and a stunned industry is still processing the loss. Social media has since erupted with tributes from fans and fellow artists who credit him with shaping what Ugandan storytelling looks and sounds like.

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August 15, 2026
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Sports

A Rugby Pitch, a Cardiac Arrest, and a Family Left Shattered: The Death of Hamza Muhaise

He was 26, a final-year student with his whole future ahead of him. Then a rugby match in Nairobi changed everything. The death of Hamza Muhaise has sent shockwaves through two countries and forced a painful conversation about player safety on African pitches.

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August 15, 2026
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Education

Sun, Sand, and a Summons: Why English Parents Are Ending Up in Court Over School Holiday Trips

The summer beach crowds look cheerful enough, but for some parents this August, the seaside came with a court date attached. Across England, hundreds of mothers and fathers are answering to magistrates over school absences, and the picture is messier than a simple holiday fine story.

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August 15, 2026
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How a Farm Clinic in Lira Is Changing the Way Uganda’s Farmers Grow, Manage, and Get Paid

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