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Uganda votes under internet blackout and police crackdown
AFP, Published on 15/01/2026
» KAMPALA - Uganda was on edge as it headed for elections on Thursday, with President Yoweri Museveni expected to extend his 40-year rule amid an internet shutdown and a police crackdown on the opposition.
Trump's aid freeze could cause millions more AIDS deaths: UN agency
AFP, Published on 17/02/2025
» ADDIS ABABA - President Donald Trump's decision to suspend US overseas funding could result in millions more deaths from AIDS, the head of the UN's programme for the illness warned Sunday.
Military trial of Ugandan opposition leader to continue
AFP, Published on 01/02/2025
» KAMPALA - Uganda’s president condemned on Saturday a Supreme Court ruling that civilians cannot be tried in military court, while the army said it would continue court-martialling ex-presidential candidate Kizza Besigye.
Sydney's former HIV epicentre close to ending transmission: research
AFP, Published on 24/07/2023
» PARIS - The Inner Sydney district, once the epicentre of Australia's HIV epidemic, is very close to becoming the first place in the world to reach the UN's target for ending transmission of the virus, researchers said on Monday.
AIDS timeline: Four decades but still no silver bullet
AFP, Published on 30/11/2021
» PARIS: With hopes of eradicating AIDS badly hit by the coronavirus pandemic, we look at the fight against the deadly condition since its emergence 40 years ago, as the planet marks World AIDS Day on Wednesday.
Four decades of AIDS
AFP, Published on 05/06/2021
» WASHINGTON - Forty years ago this month the first men began dying of a mysterious disease in California that would later be identified as AIDS.
Last century's epidemics more deadly than today's
AFP, Published on 05/02/2020
» PARIS: Before the emergence of the new coronavirus, which has sparked worldwide panic, other epidemics had struck earlier in the 21st century, but were less deadly than the previous century's pandemics.
Pope rails against 'vengeance' in Mozambique
AFP, Published on 06/09/2019
» MAPUTO, Mozambique: Pope Francis on Friday told tens of thousands of faithful at a packed stadium not to resort to "vengeance" as he wound up a visit to Mozambique, ravaged by a 16-year civil war and now the target of jihadist attacks.
Botswana scraps anti-gay laws in landmark decision
AFP, Published on 11/06/2019
» GABORONE (BOTSWANA) - Botswana's High Court ruled Tuesday in favour of decriminalising homosexuality, handing down a landmark verdict greeted with joy by gay rights campaigners.
HIV outbreak sparks panic in southern Pakistan
AFP, Published on 16/05/2019
» RATO DERO, Pakistan: Parents nervously watch as their children wait to be tested for HIV in a village in southern Pakistan, where hundreds of people have been allegedly infected by a doctor using a contaminated syringe.