Most people dread the thought of losing any of their senses. But for Ugandan singer and songwriter Dokta Brain, the calculus is surprisingly clear. In a raw and candid moment, he drew a line in the sand, and music sat firmly on the winning side.
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Thousands of Kampala commuters may face daily disruptions as police begin impounding dangerous 14-seater taxis that have failed every safety test thrown at them. The government isn’t blinking. And honestly, given the state of some of these vehicles, neither should it.
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A family learned from the news, not from the Navy, that the warship honoring their ancestor could be stripped of his name. Thomas Bledsoe called it ‘quite a shock.’ The story behind Doris Miller’s carrier is one America should not forget.
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You’ve looked up and seen them a thousand times: long white streaks cutting across a blue sky, fading slowly into wispy clouds. They look harmless, even beautiful. But those contrails left behind by aircraft are quietly contributing to atmospheric warming in ways that scientists are still working to fully understand.
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A promising striker, a failed season, and a price tag that is killing any chance of a quick exit. Liam Delap’s Chelsea story is one of football’s more uncomfortable cautionary tales of 2026, and the ending is still being written.
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A team of halal experts from Malaysia is on the ground in Uganda right now, auditing the country’s certification infrastructure and mapping out what it will take to unlock billions in trade across the Muslim world. Uganda has the foundations. What it needs is a system that global buyers will actually trust.
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Dokta Brain is tired of being pigeonholed. The gifted Ugandan songwriter and performer is putting his own money where his music is, staging a self-funded maiden concert to silence every promoter who has ever looked at him and seen only a pen, never a stage presence. This is what it looks like when an artist bets on himself.
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Nineteen of Uganda’s most decorated military minds handed in their uniforms last Friday, but the real briefing came after the formalities. President Yoweri Museveni had financial advice that no war college ever taught them, and it started with goats.
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A forest outside Berlin. A stash of handguns. And a trail that German security officials believe leads straight to Russian intelligence. This is not a Cold War thriller, it happened last year, and the full story is only now coming to light.
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Every time a jet cuts across the sky, it leaves behind more than a pretty white streak. Those vapour trails are contributing to atmospheric warming in ways that scientists are only now fully grappling with. The sky, it turns out, is not as innocent as it looks.
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