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Amy Fallon works from Helsinki, Finland. I like water. PhD researcher at @AaltoWAT @AaltoUniversity exploring Finland in between researching water governance and climate variability. UEA alum! Amy Fallon has over 239 followers on Twitter.

TORORO, UGANDA  – JULY 25: Head antenatal nurse Margie Harriet Egessa providing antenatal counseling and checkups for a group of pregnant women at Mukujju clinic. This clinic is supported by DSW. July 25, 2014 in Tororo, Uganda. (Photo by Jonathan Torgovnik for The Hewlett Foundation/Reportage by Getty Images)

Citizens win case for safe childbirth

In Uganda 16 women in labour die each day. One woman, backed by a civil society organisation, took the state to court

Fear: Students clash with police during a protest against the motion to scrap the presidential age limit — seen as a way for Museveni to seek a sixth term as leader

Uganda rows over Museveni’s rule

As MPs scuffle over the president’s ageing reign, protesters take the battle to the streets

Medical centres in conflict-riddled Libya are recruiting Ugandan health professionals to work in a number of fields. Critics say that ‘exporting’ doctors will compound the crisis in Uganda’s struggling hospitals and clinics.

Ugandan medics seek Libya payday

The brain drain to North Africa threatens to hobble the nation’s health system

Helpless: A woman waits to be assisted by a midwife in the delivery room of a hospital in Uganda. Ugandan health workers tend to move abroad because there are no jobs at home.

Uganda justifies brain drain

Judgment has been postponed indefinitely as a battle wages over the ‘export’ of health workers.

Uganda: NGO takes govt to court for brain drain

Uganda’s biggest public health threat is the drain of its medical brains to Trinidad and Tobago.

Antiporn law screws risque Ugandan singer

Jemimah Kansiime’s livelihood is now under threat as her Rihannaesque antics could lead to jail time.

Fight on: Ugandan MP Fox Odoi

Ugandan MP’s lonely anti-gay law battle

A court overturned the anti-gay Bill on a technicality, and the politician who fought it plans to fight a bid to have it passed again.

Odile ‘Kiki’ Gakire Katese started Inzozi Nziza

Cold comfort for Rwanda

So much of the world is familiar with ice cream that it is difficult to imagine discovering it for the first time, as these Rwandan women did.

Somalian Sulega Dahir Hussein says al-Shabab does not represent them.

Africa to get its own web encyclopedia

The online encyclopedia will serve as a repository for the continent’s rich traditions, crafts and culture.

East Africa ups the fashion stakes

Fashion Weeks in Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi provide a showcase for local designers and are spurring similar events in neighbouring countries.

Idi Amin: The tour of terror (ticket please)

Uganda’s tourism board wants to cash in on those who are fascinated by the dictator’s brutal reign.

Anti-gay law puts Uganda tourism at risk

Uganda could suffer a backlash from tour operators in the West angered by President Yoweri Museveni’s new law against homosexuality.

Activists say an emotive conference in 2009

US preachers lit homophobia fuse

American evangelists were responsible for fostering a turning point in Uganda’s attitudes towards LGBTI people.

Ugandan activists take a stand against laws that criminalise wearing miniskirts.

Uganda’s outrage skirts the law.

President Yoweri Museveni’s anti-pornography Act is no laughing matter despite a spirited protest against the miniskirt ban, writes Amy Fallon.

Naume Awero is the only female bodaboda driver in Kampala.

Kampala’s bodaboda drivers put a new spin on streetwear

Kampala’s bodaboda drivers dress in trendy, colourful clothes to ?attract customers.

Museveni mulls anti-gay law in Uganda

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni is "walking on banana peels" as he "moderates" his controversial Bill against homosexuality.