Former Miss World 1993 Lisa Hanna is catching heat on Instagram after posting videos from New York, where she gets dressed for business meetings. The 50-year-old Jamaican ex-politician shared clips that racked up over 13k likes, with one showing her topless in a long shirt before pulling on baggy pants. Commenters are speculating she might be chasing acting roles while others are thirsting over the camera angles.
This comes after radio personality Foota Hype dragged her months back for showing too much skin at her age. Hanna fired back, saying people can rock swimsuits at any age and she was just beating the Jamaican heat. Her latest New York content has followers calling her a Jamaican Wonder Woman and asking if she needs a new camera...
Rwanda just dropped the contraceptive access age from 18 down to 15 without needing parents to sign off, and activists are calling it a massive W even though the government catches heat for being authoritarian on other stuff. Teenage pregnancy sits at five percent there, but feminist groups wanted it pushed even lower since research shows most girls start having sex around 14 or 15. The country already lets minors get abortions under certain conditions, which made the old contraceptive rule kind of backwards.
Meanwhile, Uganda is having a meltdown over the same idea. Their health director floated allowing 15-year-olds to get birth control and parliament lost it, with one lawmaker saying it would legalize child abuse. Another admitted...
World Bank officials showed up at the gender ministry and basically gave Uganda props for dropping the age requirement for elderly cash assistance from 80 down to 65. Regional director Daniel Dulitzky said this was a massive policy win and pushed Uganda to build a national registry so they can actually find vulnerable old people who need help. The country has like 2.5 million elderly folks, even though everyone thinks of Uganda as super young.
Government reps admitted the informal job sector is kind of a disaster and everyone is just trying not to starve. They want the World Bank to fund programs for dropouts who need skills training and better systems for tracking who gets benefits. The monthly payment also went up from 25,000 to...
The East African Court of Justice threw out an appeal from environmental groups trying to stop the crude oil pipeline project over climate and human rights concerns. Judges said the case missed the 60-day filing deadline under regional laws and backed the earlier dismissal from 2023. Four organizations from Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania wanted construction halted in protected zones and compensation for displaced communities.
The court reversed one part, though, saying nobody gets to collect legal costs from the other side because the case served public interest. Groups called the whole thing a letdown, arguing judges ignored when affected people actually learned about secret agreements that were signed years before going public. Over...
EU chief Ursula von der Leyen gave The Observer an interview before the big Africa and Europe meeting in Angola, where she basically said both continents need each other more than ever despite the world getting messier since their first summit 25 years back. Brussels is pumping serious cash into renewable energy across the continent with plans to connect at least three million more Ugandans to electricity by connecting grids between South Sudan and Tanzania while backing off-grid setups around Lake Victoria.
The European Union brought in about 15 billion euros for clean energy investments across Africa and positioned Uganda as a model case for how African solutions backed by European money can drive actual economic change instead of...
Stats bureau dropped survey results showing citizens are way more confident about courts and prosecutors compared to seven years back, with trust jumping from somewhere in the 60s up past 80 percent for most legal institutions. The human rights commission basically doubled its approval rating while public prosecutors went from like a quarter of people backing them to three-quarters.
Legal aid groups are calling cap on the whole thing because corruption and case backlogs are still wrecking access to justice for regular people. About one in seven respondents admitted bribing government workers to get services, with the highest rates happening in the Tooro and Bunyoro regions. Officials say educated elites are actually driving most of the...
Former Tororo Municipality lawmaker Sanjay Tanna is hanging up his political jersey and backing his kid, Shyam, for the parliamentary seat as an independent. The elder Tanna held the spot for two terms between 2006 and 2016 under NRM before stepping back, and he told supporters at a campaign kickoff that he got old and wants younger people running things. He previously ditched party primaries and endorsed the current rep back in 2021.
Shyam is promising to push for youth jobs, better hospitals, and fixing schools while complaining that rivals keep trashing his campaign materials around town. Local NRM mayoral candidate Benard Ochieng said the municipality needs someone who can actually lobby for cash because streetlights are busted...
Retired Supreme Court judge Esther Kisaakye is basically calling the tribunal investigating her a total sham and says Museveni set it up after she already bounced from the bench. She dropped a massive document laying out 25 reasons the whole thing is unconstitutional, pointing out she retired before they even tried starting an inquiry and that you cannot investigate someone who left office already. The beef traces back to her role in hearing the presidential election petition where Bobi Wine challenged the election results.
Kisaakye claims Chief Justice Owiny-Dollo froze her out of all cases after the hearing and never gave her work for years until she finally retired early. She says her judicial record is spotless across 13 years with...
Amama Mbabazi is finally ready to spill the actual tea about the Kabamba barracks raid that kicked off the NRA bush war back in the 80s. The former prime minister dropped some correction receipts at the anniversary launch, saying 44 fighters attacked with just 27 guns instead of the 40 or 41 people everyone always talks about. He mentioned the assault got delayed by a day, which meant they had to scramble and warn their inside guys at the base about the schedule change.
Mbabazi and commanders Sam Magara plus Akanga Byaruhanga got sent by Museveni to handle the message delivery, but Akanga caught heat when he got nabbed moving around during the parade. They had to link up with collaborators Jeje Odongo and Muguta to spring him loose...
