Urban Sudanese professionals find a new purpose in rural Uganda Kiryandongo, Uganda | Patricia Akankwatsa | When war tore through Khartoum and Darfur, over 20,000 Sudanese fled their homes, arriving in Kiryandongo District by May 2024. But this influx was unlike any the region had seen before. The new arrivals were …
Read More »Carats to carrots: Canadian woman finds long lost diamond ring in garden
Ottawa, Canada | AFP | An elderly Canadian woman has recovered a diamond engagement ring she lost 13 years ago, after it turned up this week on a carrot pulled from her old garden. Mary Grams, 84, told local media she lost the ring she’d worn since 1951 while weeding on …
Read More »The beautiful garden that can’t feed the hungry
By Enock Musinguzi Uganda cannot sit on a green belt and continue to sit on its hands as the terminally arid region starves to death. In his ‘My African Journey’, Winston Churchill wrote “My journey is at an end, the tale is told………concentrate upon Uganda! Nowhere else in Africa will …
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