Nankwanga Eunice Kasirye

Do something to STOP it "…..I was dosing seated on a bed breast-feeding one of the twins, when i felt a sharp slap on the head, opened my eyes and it was my husband , I thought he was slapping me because he always beats me whenever he is drank, But then I noticed blood was oozing from my head that is when I realized that he was cutting me with a Panga, he cut my right ear , cut the twin I was carrying in my right hand from head through to her stomach and then my hand, he moved on to the other twin and did the same, He went a ahead and hacked to death the four year old girl who was sleeping with me in the same bedroom and then he run away………." Florence Nabaterega from Mityana in Uganda, narrates the ghastly incidences of the night her husband cut off her hands , ear and killed three of their children over a bar challenge against his ability to father the twins she had just had a few months back The mother of nine now lives with one ear, half hands...

A tribute to my big brother-Moses Lugolole When people talk about HIV/AIDS after 2010, it is sounds like it is just some kind of sickness where one just has to take a test, be sure of the status and then start taking medication consistently and that is all- you live a positive life- But the HIV/AIDS I know is not the one of knowing your status and taking medication to live a positive life there after- It is the HIV/AIDS that meant one person being assumed or proved to be Positive meant the entire family, neighbors friends clan...name it carrying an equal burden of the Cross of the disease through STIGMA... My story with that painful HIV/AIDS AND STIGMA. .... When I was in primary seven 13 years of age it was really a tough time My big brother RIP Moses who was around 23 years of age then..was linked to HIV/AIDS through a wild village rumor- for his relationship with a young widow whose husband had been rumored to have died of AIDS I suffered a lot of pain for the r...

By Nankwanga Eunice Kasirye The United Nations High Commission for Refuges UNHCR says South Sudan’s refugee crisis is now the world’s fastest growing putting Uganda and region in critical need of help Eight months after fresh violence erupted in South Sudan, a famine produced by the vicious combination of fighting and drought is now driving the world’s fastest growing refugee crisis. Total displacement from South Sudan into the surrounding region is now 1.6 million people. The rate of new displacement is alarming, representing an impossible burden on a region that is significantly poorer and which is fast running short of resources to cope. Refugees are fleeing into Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Central African Republic with almost half crossing into Uganda at a rate of 2,000 new arrivals daily. The influx peaked in February at more than 6,000 in a single day, In March, at more than 5,000 with the current daily average of over 2,800 arrivals...