When you strengthen the journalist, you strengthen the community: RMDF’s case for investing in rural journalism
BY RWENZORI DAILY KASESE — When a journalist in a rural newsroom becomes better equipped to report, investigate and explain…
Author: Alex
Water and Environmental Journalist, Founder and Editor Rwenzori Daily, Talented and immensely creative journalist with a commitment to high-quality research and writing. DAG Fellow 2023, CiFAR, Pulitzer, InfoNile Grantee
Present but Left Behind: How Gaps in Inclusive Education Push Children with Disabilities Out of School
BY INNOCENT KIIZA For 15-year-old James Baluku Atholere (not his real names), the biggest examination of his life is approaching.…
Kilembe’s Silent Asbestos Legacy: Decades of Exposure, Questions Still Unanswered
BY RAM KIKAMA Decades after asbestos-containing materials were introduced around Kilembe’s copper mines, deteriorating structures still shelter families in Kasese,…
From Town Drains to Elephant Guts: What Elephant Dung Reveals About Uganda’s Plastic Crisis
BY INNOCENT KIIZA The pile of elephant dung looked ordinary. Fresh, damp and packed with half-digested grass, it lay beside…
Masked Men Abduct Husband of Exiled NUP Activist Esther Kabugho
BY EDITORIAL TEAM Kampala, Uganda – January 13, 2026: Fresh outrage has erupted within Uganda’s opposition after the reported abduction…
U.S. Hit by 23 Billion-Dollar Weather Disasters in 2025, Climate Central Reports
BY ALEX BALUKU The United States experienced its third-highest number of billion-dollar weather and climate disasters in 2025, according to…
The Sun Is Burning Our Fields: UN Warns of Rising Health Threats from Extreme Heat
BY ALEX BALUKU United Nations Headquarters, New York – 22 August 2025 The World Health Organization (WHO) and the World…
Extreme Heat Grips Southwest U.S. and Mexico, With Climate Change as a Key Driver
BY ALEX BALUKU A relentless and dangerous heatwave is sweeping across the Southwest United States and northern Mexico this week,…
A Family Torn by Politics: From Brutal Assault to the Death of a Child
BY RWENZORI DAILY Kasese, Uganda, July 16, 2025 The persecution of opposition activist Faith Atholere has taken yet another devastating…
The Vanishing Roar: Uganda’s Lions Caught Between Survival and Extinction
By Innocent Kiiza In the fading light of a dusky savannah, the once-familiar echo of a lion’s roar now sounds…