Animal world
Catch the giant crocodile weighing nearly 1 ton
A crocodile has a mass of nearly 1 ton and is believed to have eaten at least 4 fishermen were arrested in Lake Victoria in Uganda.
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Animal world
Monkeys are more susceptible to disease when near people
Chimpanzees who live near people often have to find ways to find their own cigarettes to cure their illnesses. These are the medicinal plants used to treat diseases caus…
Animal world
Rhino children bear the name Obama
The first rhino born in Uganda in the past 30 years has been named Obama, because his father is from Kenya, and his mother is of American origin.
Animal world
Detecting deadly virus in the bat
Scientists have found deadly Marburg virus in a fruit-eating bat in Africa. This is the first time this virus has been detected in an animal other than the monkey.
Animal world
Why do gorillas eat rotten wood?
After observing gorillas in Uganda for nearly a year, scientists discovered why these animals ate the wood and licked the stump - the behavior that caused headaches in r…
Environment
Many African countries lack serious freshwater
The prolonged drought in recent years has caused Uganda, Central Africa, and Kenya to fall into serious scarcity of freshwater, seriously affecting people's lives.
Environment
Tens of thousands of medicinal plants are about to disappear forever
The health of hundreds of millions of people on the planet could be in danger because medicinal plants are being over-exploited.
Scientific works
'Waste park' - art for the community
After collecting a large amount of waste, about 20,000 plastic bottles in the slums of Kampala (Uganda), Ruganzu Bruno's group embarked on the assembly of 'artworks'.
Science story
Strange things about monkeys
A 2-year-old boy named John Ssabunnya from Uganda's village of Bambo got lost in the forest in 1988, was saved by a herd of monkeys and raised him as a member of the her…
Medicine - Health
Strange, even worse than 'death black'
The panic has spread in East Africa after a 9-year-old girl in Uganda died of a disease that caused her eyes to bleed to death.
Medicine - Health
'Super beans' helps solve hunger in the world
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has signed an agreement with a major producer to supply 21 tons
Medicine - Health
Alerting the risk of new HIV infection in Asia
The UN Organization warns that more and more people are infected with HIV around the world, including in Uganda and Thailand - countries that were once considered to be…
New technology
Students of one of the world's poorest countries invented a way to start cars with fingerprints
A group of 9 students at Makerere Computer and Information Technology University, Uganda invented a way to start the car with fingerprints instead of using keys.
New technology
Students make electric cars
Demonstrating electric car production is not just in large countries with huge industries, a group of students and a professor at Makarere University in Uganda build an…