Month: April 2016

Various detention facilities in Uganda are home to mentally ill inmates. Last year, the Constitutional Court ruled that it’s unlawful to keep these sick inmates behind bars and recommended that they should be taken for treatment in facilities designated for the mentally ill, such as Butabika hospital. However, as FREDERIC MUSISI writes in the second […]

  Mental illness is a phenomenon many find difficult to comprehend. This makes it even more difficult to understand and assist people who suffer from the ailment. To explore this dilemma, FREDERIC MUSISI, tells the story of a man who, driven my voices in his head, killed his own son, and is now in jail […]

Agriculture is Uganda’s backbone as many derive livelihoods from it, directly or indirectly. But as RONALD MUGABE discovers, food wastage through mishandling of harvests, is an issue letting the sector down, with the situation worse in famine-hit Karamoja sub-region. The article was published in New Vision with funding from ACME’s Enhanced Media Reporting for Transparency […]

For twenty years, people in northern Uganda endured atrocities from the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) war. It’s been 10 years since the guns went silent, but as ERIASA MUKIIBI SSERUNJOGI writes, a new form of instability, inform of mental illness, is unsettling the sub-region. The story was published in the Daily Monitor with funding from ACME’s […]