trafficking

The Ball in Our Court: Nurturing Corruption or Integrity

By Denis Wabuyi Some habits die hard if at all they die. Others don’t die until they take them with you. And in some countries like Uganda where the dead are deployed as ancestors, even in the grave some habits of some people still live on. As you all know, I live in a bizarre country where integrity has been kicked to the corner and mauled to pieces. In more than few instances, anyone’s act of honesty and integrity earns them a place on the wrong side of humanity according to Ugandan standards. And these signs have dogged us for Read More

TILLERSON tours Kenya work funded by US tax payers

Trump administration’s words, deeds on Africa are colliding NAIROBI NATIONAL PARK, Kenya (AP) — On the outskirts of a sprawling reserve of Kenyan grasslands where endangered animals roam wild, U.S.Read More

Uganda ivory, pangolin seized in Ivory Coast

ABIDJAN, Jan 25 (Reuters) – Around 600 kg of elephant tusks and 600 kg of pangolin scales have been seized in Ivory Coast, ready to be sent to Vietnam and Read More

Uganda one of the countries that traffics drugs to Canada

These 9 maps show where Canada’s illegal drugs are coming from. Fentanyl originating from China, heroin sent from east Africa, and anabolic steroids from Moldova. Documents obtained by Global News show Read More

VIDEO: Uganda, South Sudan named as trafficking hubs for wildlife from DRCongo

Today, the Enough Project published a report, “Deadly Profits: Illegal Wildlife Trafficking through Uganda and South Sudan,” by Ledio Cakaj and Sasha Lezhnev. After following the trail of illegally poached Read More

Examining sex trade and human trafficking Ugandans

Sexual slavery in the 21st century looks like this: Millions of women and girls — lives interrupted by civil war, climate change or economic desperation — are forced to sell Read More