#ANTI-MASS isn’t letting the world forget Uganda’s queer community

#ANTI-MASS isn’t letting the world forget Uganda’s queer community

Experimental club producers Nsasi, Authentically Plastic, Gerald, and Turkana are fighting their home country’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill from abroad Authentically Plastic and Gerald.   Photo by De Lovie Kwagala. Indigenous legend says Lake Victoria is a magical place, inhabited by powerful spiritual beings. Both feared and revered in pre-colonial Uganda, these demi-gods would commune with trans…

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#9 dead in Ugandan New Year firework crush: cops

#9 dead in Ugandan New Year firework crush: cops

“9 dead in Ugandan New Year firework crush: cops” At least nine people including a 10-year-old boy suffocated to death as crowds rushing to see a New Year’s firework display got stuck in a narrow corridor in a shopping mall near Uganda’s capital, police said. People started pushing through a passage in the Freedom City Mall just after clocks struck midnight, the force said….

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#Facebook, Google build undersea internet cables for Asia and Africa

#Facebook, Google build undersea internet cables for Asia and Africa

“#Facebook, Google build undersea internet cables for Asia and Africa” Facebook and Google are building undersea internet cables around the world — and are betting that the investments will bring in millions of new customers. Facebook revealed Sunday that it is helping build a 7,500-mile cable connecting countries including Japan, Indonesia, the Philippines and Taiwan….

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#Ugandan weightlifter goes missing from Olympic training center

#Ugandan weightlifter goes missing from Olympic training center

“#Ugandan weightlifter goes missing from Olympic training center” TOKYO — Local officials are searching for a Ugandan athlete who went missing in western Japan on Friday in a case raising questions over Japanese organizers’ oversight of Olympic participants amid local coronavirus concerns. The missing 20-year-old Julius Ssekitoleko was training as part of the nine-member Ugandan…

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# Akon to build second African crypto-city in Uganda

# Akon to build second African crypto-city in Uganda

“# Akon to build second African crypto-city in Uganda ” Senegalese-American rapper and businessperson Akon is set to begin building another crypto city, this time in the East African nation of Uganda. According to a report by Uganda’s flagship television network NBS, the country’s government has announced the allocation of land for the project. Akon…

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