Tag: Uganda
70-year-old Ugandan woman gives birth to twins (and father stayed at home)
A 70-year-old Ugandan woman gave birth to twins in a hospital in the capital Kampala. “It’s an extraordinary feat to give birth to twins” for a 70-year-old mother, Doctor Edward…
Animals: Chimpanzee grandmas challenge the grandmother hypothesis
Like women, monkeys also go through menopause – and still don’t care about their grandchildren. This contradicts much of what people thought they knew about the laws of life. source…
SZ column Typically German: Chocolate against the shock
On the occasion of Halloween, our author asks herself whether one should indulge in every custom, no matter how stupid. And comes to a clear conclusion. source site
Uganda: Chimpanzees are increasingly attacking children
People in Uganda have lived alongside chimpanzees for centuries. But this is now becoming a problem: more and more children are being attacked by the great apes. You can see…
TotalEnergies targeted by criminal complaint for oil projects in Tanzania and Uganda
NGOs believe that this is a “climatecide”. Four environmental defense associations have filed a complaint against TotalEnergies and its Eacop oil project in Tanzania and Uganda, we learned this Monday…
SZ column Typically German: You don’t come home here
Regulars’ tables always seemed like exclusive clubs to our author. Now she has received an invitation for the first time. Should she dare? source site
Uganda: Man charged with “serious homosexuality”.
After law change Death penalty threatened: Man in Uganda charged with “serious homosexuality”. In Uganda, for the first time, a person can be sentenced to death for “severe sexuality”. ©…
Typically German: motorcycling for women – Munich
Our author grew up in a region where motorcycling was only established among men – in Bavaria women also sit at the handlebars. So into the noise, turmoil and stench?…
Typisch deutsch: Urlaub dahoam im Münchner Sommer – München
In München fühlt es sich schon Tage nach Beginn der großen Schulferien so an, als hätte die Hälfte der Bewohner die Stadt verlassen. Selbst von der Rush-Hour im Berufsverkehr ist…
Airplane Hijacking to Entebbe: What the Dictator Didn’t Know
For a long time it was considered possible that the Ugandan ruler Idi Amin was in on the 1976 Entebbe plane hijacking. A historical essay comes to the conclusion: It…