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Dicta Asiimwe
Verified
Co-Founder, MainstreamUg
Kampala
Beats
Biography
Dicta Asiimwe is a freelance journalist based in Uganda. My byline has appeared in several publications including The Independent Magazine, The EastAfrican Newspaper and Daily Monitor, where I briefly edited the weekend magazines. Awards have been from reporting infrastructure, politics, business and disaster risk reduction. I write about the economy, health, gender, education, agriculture, water and trade on the continent.
business, and economic integration in Africa., education environment,Infrastructure, gender agriculture, politics, health economy, disaster risk reduction, trade
Sports
Content
By Dicta Asiimwe Verified| Institute for War & Peace Reporting Verified Stanley Kafuko, a member of Uganda’s opposition National Unity Platform (NUP) was arrested on December 30, 2020, while campaigning with party leader Bobi Wine. Kafuko was one of 128 NUP members seized the same day, amid mass arrests targeting opposition activists in the run-up to Uganda’s hotly-contested presidential election of 2021 – in which President Yoweri Museveni held on to power. While in detention, Kafuko told IWPR, he was sexually assaulted by men he believes were intelligence agents.
By Dicta Asiimwe Verified| publicsquareea.org@ Is it possible to collaborate with President Yoweri Museveni and his inner circle without succumbing to personal interests or exploiting the Ugandan taxpayer? Can shunning President Museveni and his allies lead to a more accountable and just Uganda? These are questions we at Public Square have grappled with extensively. We conclude that there may be more effective approaches to achieving a just and equitable Uganda than shunning President Museveni, a strategy adopted by many of his opponents.
By Dicta Asiimwe Verified| Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance@ Scovia Bero's face is drawn. Her breasts are swollen and painful. She has just lost her 14-month-old baby to the ongoing measles outbreak in Hoima district, located on Uganda's border with the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Bero is sitting in the dirt under a neem tree in Runga fishing village, on the shores of Lake Albert, when VaccinesWork first meets her. Spotting visitors, the four women sitting with Bero head off in different directions to their respective huts.
Company Info
MainstreamUg
Africa, Kampala, Uganda