New Vision Podcast

In these special episodes of Around Uganda, we focus on the 'safety of children online', exploring how Uganda’s children are growing up in a digital world, the opportunities technology offers, the risks they face online, and practical ways parents, educators, and communities can help young people navigate the internet safely and responsibly. 

One month after deadly landslides devasted Uganda’s Sebei region, survivors are still waiting. They are waiting for land, for safety, for a chance to begin again.
At least 26 people were killed, thousands displaced, and more than 78,000 Ugandans forced from their homes by climate disasters in 2024 alone. In Kween and Bukwo districts, families now sleep on classroom floors, short of food, water, and dignity, as government resettlement plans stall.
As extreme weather intensifies across Africa, Sebei lays bare the human cost of climate change.

When kidneys fail and treatment is out of reach, innovation becomes the difference between life and death. This is the story of a Ugandan doctor using low-cost dialysis to save lives.

A new campaign in Uganda is turning the fight against malaria into a race against time. The 24.2 Hours Initiative has a simple goal: to save lives, especially among children under five, who account for most malaria deaths in the country.

Raziah Athman reports from Iganga, eastern Uganda, where one mother’s desperate journey to save her child shows what’s at stake.

Kiki ekyakusikiriza okukuguka mu kunoonyereza ku kirwadde ekireeta omusujja gw’ensiri?

Ebituukiddwako mu kunoonyereza ku kirwadde kya Malaria.

Okunoonyereza kwemukoze kuyambye kutya okutereeza mu nkwata y’ekirwadde?

Malaria ayimiridde atya mu ggwanga era omugeraageranya otya ku myaka egiyise?

Bitundu ki ebisinga okutawaanyizibwa obulwadde obuleeta omusujja gw’ensiri?

Malaria yatangirwa atya luli bwogeraageranya bwekiri leero?

Enkola y’okukendeeza omusujja gw’ensiri etuukiddwako etya?

Kika kya bantu ki ekisinga okutawaanyizibwa obulwadde buno era babweriinde batya?

Mugaso ki oguli mu kukozesa eddagala eritangira omusujja awamu n’enteekateeka y’okukendeeza obungi ensiri

Vaccine ekubibwa abaana okubatangira okukwatibwa omusujja gw’ensiri ekoze etya?

Nteekateeka ki ereeteddwa okusomesa abantu okwerinda omusujja gw’ensiri ku byaalo?

Uganda egeraageranyizibwa etya mu mawanga ga Africa ne munsi yonna okulwanyisa Malaria?

Lwaki olowooza okunoonyereza ku Malaria kikyetaagisa n’amaanyi

Nkola ki empya ezireeteddwa okukebera n’okujjanjaba Malaria?

Nnyonnyola omulabi obuyiiya bwa gene drive kyebuli ne bwebukola?

Target Malaria Project egenda kukozesa etya ensiri zeyalula kiyite gene drive?

Abantu balina kutya ki eri ensiri ezaaluddwa era bagumye ate obawe n’amagezi okwongera okwerinda Malaria

Olowooza okumalawo malaria mu ggwanga kisoboka?

Dr. Martin Lukindu, omukugu mu kunoonyereza ku nsiri Target Malaria - Uganda 

A road crash along the Kampala–Gulu highway has left at least 46 people dead. Two buses, a lorry, and a Land Cruiser collided. In today’s episode, we bring you the facts, the voices, and the urgent call to action. 

Voters in Adjumani and Amuru districts made their demands as National Resistance Movement candidate Yoweri Museveni campaigned in West Nile. 

Original reporting by Jackson Kitala and Doreen Taisa.

Narrated by Raziah Athman 

When Kenya’s Raila Odinga died, two worlds came together: the ceremony of the state, and the sacred rites of the Luo. From bonfires to buffalo cries, this episode explores what it means to bury a Luo elder.

In Kisumu, 2007, a grieving crowd asked for guns. Raila Odinga gave them words. Amida Anyanzwa was there - and this is how the late former prime minister’s choice changed everything.

A family celebration turns into a brutal crime scene. When Hannington Asiimwe Musasizi is found bound and bleeding in his home, suspicion quickly falls on his wife, Diana Luttu Nabbengo. What really happened that afternoon in Kawempe? 

Based on original reporting by Michael Odeng for the New Vision.