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African, Caribbean activists seek access to microcredit in response to aid cuts impacting LGBT+ people. Muhammad Yunus, who recently stepped down as the aging interim leader of Bangladesh, won the Nobel Prize for Peace back in 2006 for founding and leading Grameen Bank in Bangladesh, which pioneered the use of microcredit to fight poverty. (Photo courtesy of NBC) COMMENTARY As …

By Aaron Kaviiri A. Ateenyi On 20th February 2026, at State House Entebbe, President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni welcomed Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, the head of Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF). Two days later, BBC reported that Sudan’s government denounced Uganda for hosting the RSF leader, calling the meeting an “affront to humanity.” Sudan’s foreign ministry, aligned with the nation’s armed forces, …

Trump expands Mexico City policy to “end woke foreign aid”  A 19-year-old woman talks with nurse Valeria Zafisoa at a traveling contraception clinic in eastern Madagascar run by the British nonprofit group MSI Reproductive Choices. That group lost $15 million in funding the last time Trump enforced the Mexico City policy. (Samantha Reinders photo courtesy of NPR) The Trump administration …

KAMPALA – In a significant move highlighting parallel crises within Uganda’s judicial system, relatives of imprisoned former accountant Geoffrey Kazinda and officials from the National Unity Platform (NUP) have jointly petitioned the Uganda Law Society (ULS) for urgent intervention. The appeals, made during a meeting with ULS leadership, underscore two critical fronts: the prolonged detention of a high-profile convict and …