Nicholas Bariyo
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Reporter at the Wall Street Journal. Watching Uganda and Africa's Great Lakes Region.DMs open, story tips to [email protected]
Kampala, Uganda
Joined February 2010
This week, Uganda’s ruling NRM party informed journalists that any further applications to cover President Yoweri Museveni’s campaign ahead of the January 2026 polls would be denied. The International Press Association of Uganda calls for these limits on access to be removed.
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Uganda has long been a haven for Africans fleeing war and famine. No longer.
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Uganda had been a notable exception to a worldwide pull-up-the-drawbridge trend—until now.
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The State Department: “The Trump administration has continuously called on nations around the world to join the U.S. in offering humanitarian assistance to vulnerable populations. The U.S. is the world’s most generous nation, but we’re not the only one that can help.”
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Uganda had been a notable exception to a worldwide pull-up-the-drawbridge trend—until now.
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Uganda has long been a haven for Africans fleeing war and famine. Not anymore. Egypt, Kenya and Ethiopia are also moving to restrict new refugees, citing funding shortages. People escaping the civil war in Sudan need visas to enter Egypt, my latest https://t.co/fA4Ypzo5Zl via
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Uganda had been a notable exception to a worldwide pull-up-the-drawbridge trend—until now.
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Putting DNA testing to good use: People can inherit from their biological father even if he never knew of them. https://t.co/aj73bXJtWD via @WSJ
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Surprise heirs are showing up because of DNA test kits and sowing disorder for people handling their loved ones’ estates.
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"All these incidents point to the fact that the [Nigerian] federal government is not doing enough to fight insecurity,” Joseph Hayab, regional chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria https://t.co/jxb7TOgNUM via @WSJ
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Students were taken from their dormitories and forced into the forest at gunpoint, police said.
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She saved for years for IVF, then had to fight her ex for the embryos https://t.co/nHGzBOEz0A via @WSJ
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Costly and emotionally taxing efforts to have children can be jeopardized when couples split.
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Bangladesh's former prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, was sentenced to death for her role in the killing of at least 1,400 protesters last year https://t.co/1fMGSe0VLl via @WSJ
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The former prime minister was convicted over her role in the killing of at least 1,400 protesters last year.
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Gen Z protesters with few opportunities can unseat governments. In Tanzania, the president is responding with lethal force. https://t.co/LBoT4nrKJN via @WSJ
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Demonstrators have been protesting the cost of living and President Samia Suluhu Hassan’s tightening grip on power.
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The fight over a corpse: government says Lungu would have wanted a proper, pomp-filled burial at the presidential cemetery. His family says his dying wish, was that Hichilema not even be allowed near his casket. They are fighting it out in court and, now, in bars and on the
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Supporters of a deceased Zambian president have appropriated “Three Lions” in their campaign to bring his body home.
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A song written for sad English soccer fans has taken a central role in a fight over an African leader’s remains. https://t.co/Irz5W3FuR5 via @WSJ
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Supporters of a deceased Zambian president have appropriated “Three Lions” in their campaign to bring his body home.
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Eric Reeves, from the Rift Valley Institute "The fierce ethnic animus of the RSF toward non-Arab civilians is equal to that of the Hutus toward the Tutsis in Rwanda. The obscene violence is clearly comparable.” https://t.co/y01uHQbHVa via @WSJ
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The country’s civil war has triggered a wave of brutal reprisals targeting the region’s Black population.
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Great story by @alexandrawexler about the mess in Johannesburg: At a busy intersection in the suburb of Magaliessig that is home to a “Crime Hot Spot” sign, the traffic lights sometimes don’t work for months. Jobless men direct traffic in exchange for tips or food from motorists.
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Tourists are dumbfounded by the many signs of apathy in the South African city.
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U.S. intelligence agencies say the U.A.E. sent increasing supplies of weapons to a major Sudanese militia this year, bolstering a group that has been accused of genocide https://t.co/L0N74eewWg via @WSJ
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Reports by U.S. intelligence agencies show an increase in the flow of materiel from the U.A.E. to the rebel Rapid Support Forces since the spring, according to U.S. officials.
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Today on @WSJ page one--Toxic waste from a Chinese mine in Zambia washed through homes and fields; compensation offers tied to nondisclosure
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An accident at a Chinese mine poisoned homes and fields in Zambia. The compensation offers came with a catch: Don’t talk about it, our take on Chambishi spill https://t.co/c7hpvQY98J via @WSJ
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Toxic waste from a Chinese mine in Zambia washed through homes and fields. Compensation offers are tied to nondisclosure.
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Sudanese rebels captured the last government stronghold in Darfur, seizing full control of a region where they have twice been accused of committing genocide-UN SG, "This represents a terrible escalation in the conflict," our latest.. https://t.co/o1FseWbMFJ via @WSJ
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The capture of the El Fasher gives the rebel Rapid Support Forces the last government stronghold in Darfur, where they have twice been accused of committing genocide.
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Russia, not long ago a rising military force in Africa, is now struggling to maintain its footprint on the continent latest w @benoitfaucon
https://t.co/ducVBJQgI0 via @WSJ
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Not long ago a rising military force in Africa, Russia is now struggling to maintain its footprint on the continent.
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The Catholic Church is growing. Its priesthood isn’t. “No one these days becomes a priest for the salary or because of social status.” There are now more seminaries in Congo than Poland, more in India than Italy. https://t.co/imE3zeY1Hj via @WSJ
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Seminary enrollment is declining in most regions, creating a historic shift that will reshape the church. But first, it’s accelerating a clergy crisis, with cascading effect.
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Former President Joe Biden is having a less lucrative postpresidency than what he’d expected, owing to his advancing age, unpopularity and limited speaking engagements https://t.co/AZp6RPZlT8 via @WSJ
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Companies are reluctant to hire the former president as a paid speaker due to his unpopularity and fear of retribution from Trump.
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