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Muhammad Magezi of agricultural exporter Enimiro checks on cages holding black soldier flies, whose larvae are used to produce organic fertilizer from food waste, in a breeding section in Kangulumira, Kayunga District, Uganda Monday, Sept. 5, 2022. Uganda is a regional food basket but the war in Ukraine has caused fertilizer prices to double or triple, causing some who have warned about dependence on synthetic fertilizer to see larvae farming as an exemplary effort toward sustainable organic farming. (AP Photo/Hajarah Nalwadda)

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Maggots key to crisis-time fertilizer for Ugandan farmers
By RODNEY MUHUMUZA - Associated Press
Sun,09/18/22-3:40AM , 330 Reads
KAYUNGA, Uganda (AP) — Moses Wamugango peered into the plastic vats where maggots wriggled in decomposing filth, the enviable project of a neighbor who spoke of the fertilizer problem he had been able to solve.
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Armed al-Shabab fighters ride on pickup trucks as they prepare to travel into the city, just outside the capital Mogadishu, Somalia on Dec. 8, 2008. The al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab is projecting authority and asserting a wider role in public life in Somalia in 2022, underlining the extent of the challenge Africa's deadliest Islamic extremist group presents to the newly elected government of President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh, File)

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For new Somalia government, al-Shabab a threat to authority
By RODNEY MUHUMUZA - Associated Press
Wed,05/25/22-4:05AM , 484 Reads
A Somali police officer recently received an unexpected summons from the enemy. An unknown caller ordered him to report to a town outside the capital, Mogadishu, where the extremist group al-Shabab would settle a dispute between him and his brother. The caller assured the officer he would be safe even if he showed up in uniform.
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Refugees who fled the conflict in Ethiopia's Tigray region ride a bus going to the Village 8 temporary shelter, near the Sudan-Ethiopia border, in Hamdayet, eastern Sudan on Dec. 1, 2020. Widespread abuses against civilians in the western part of Ethiopia's embattled Tigray region amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International have charged in a new report Wednesday, April 6, 2022. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty, File)

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Rights groups charge 'ethnic cleansing' in Ethiopia's Tigray
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Wed,04/06/22-4:09AM , 555 Reads
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Widespread abuses against civilians in the western part of Ethiopia's embattled Tigray region amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International have charged in a new report.
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Pupils wear face masks as they attend class at Kitante Primary School in Kampala, Uganda Monday, Jan. 10, 2022. Uganda's schools reopened to students on Monday, ending the world's longest school disruption due to the COVID-19 pandemic. (AP Photo/Hajarah Nalwadda)

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Uganda's schools reopen, ending world's longest lockdown
By RODNEY MUHUMUZA - Associated Press
Mon,01/10/22-4:56AM , 382 Reads
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Uganda's schools reopened to students on Monday, ending the world's longest school disruption due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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