Uganda confirms outbreak of Ebola in the capital Kampala, one dead Uganda has confirmed an outbreak of Ebola virus disease in the capital Kampala, with the first confirmed patient dying from the disease on Wednesday, the health ministry said on Thursday.

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Elon Musk is Accidentally Helping to Raise Thousands for Progressive Causes in the UK Campaigners claim to be turning his own tweets "into a weapon against the far right"

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Calls and text messages have flooded me in the last 72 hours from friends and colleagues in Sierra Leone and elsewhere: Are my meds going to be cut off? Am I going to die? I don't know what to tell them. I don't know what to tell anyone. Hope is my whole jam, but I feel very distant from it.

‘No hope’: wife’s fears for Ugandan opposition leader facing trial for treason Kizza Besigye, veteran opponent of President Yoweri Museveni, may face death penalty but will not get justice in military court, warns Winnie Byanyima, UNAids chief

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I'm so sick of people who lack empathy. The "I'm not going through it so it's not real" vibe was big in 2024 and I don't think it's going to get much better this year.

I have never seen anyone flip as quickly as Robert F. Kennedy did on the question of whether a woman has the right to control her own body.

Millions of Lives at Stake: Trump Halts AIDS Funding Learn about the HIV funding crisis and the urgent need for action to prevent further harm and save lives.

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That’s easier said than done when you have to do live Zoom meetings and they’re outside this timezone. I know someone from NZ who does a lot of international work and she’s always up late or on planes and spent six weeks in UK last year because it was easier for her work.

New Zealand to loosen visa rules for digital nomads The so-called "digital nomads" include visitors such as IT specialists, as long as they are not receiving any income from NZ sources.

Reckon there might be a few people from UK, Canada, South Africa, US and elsewhere who might like this. The huge problem may be the timezone.
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Frangipani flowers with a sun chair and border collie in the background

Frangipani flowers in backyard NSW

Frangipani flowers are one of my favorites in my garden, they smell divine. Harry as usual has to be in the picture.
#garden #australia #dogsofbluesky

I will say though after getting mugged in 2022 with all ID and some other stuff taken, ALL the help and support came from Ugandans. The expat (immigrant) community is known for being a bit toxic (as these groups are in other places).

Yes I know UG is good for that - the locals and the mzungus 🤣. Some of the mzungus probably worse actually.

British Council could disappear within a decade, says chief executive Exclusive: Scott McDonald is looking at budget cuts and axing the organisation’s presence in up to 40 countries

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‘Coffee badging’: is this new approach to office life working – or shirking? Some people say popping in to the office to have a hot drink before leaving for the day is a convenient, legitimate way to fulfil their obligations. Bosses disagree

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Waiting on people to get back to me, but in case there’s any climate protesters in Australia happy to speak to me for a story please let me know (ideally looking for people who have been arrested in non-violent protests). Ta #climate #Australia #journorequest

Everyone interested in campaigning and social change should know that gun organiser @sharna.bsky.social is here. Most of the time great organising work isn’t publicly seen, and that’s deliberate, and it works. X

The big US aid freeze: Who loses? US President Donald Trump has begun his second term with a flurry of executive orders that are light on details but heavy on impact

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Loving Thy Neighbour The strength of "weak ties"

"I remember going to see a play at the Royal Court in which a character fell into homelessness and thinking: 'I’m one screw up away from this, this slipping off the face of the earth.'"

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I know I am a natural helper, and I know I'm not the only one to feel like this, but do get sick of doing things for other people at times and then when you need something back they don't do the same.

What a toxic site X is. I went back on to DM someone about something for work and I noticed I had a reply to a homophobe from something I posted in December 2023. Such desperados 🤣

Why is my t-shirt more offensive to our prime minister than a 50-year assault on democracy? The boy who lived in public housing comes to die on a corporately owned hill.

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Every morning we wake up to more horror – but worse than that, more people who are seemingly indifferent to it. Compassion burnout is real, but it is also what power wants. Empathy keeps us human and yes, it is heavy, but it's a burden worth holding ♥️

International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) on LinkedIn: USAID Stop Work Notification | 23 comments IPPF RECEIVES USAID NOTIFICATION TO STOP WORK IN AFRICA Violence, power, and control—these are the tools of tyranny, often wielded by men who perpetuate… | 23 comments on LinkedIn

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Top USAID career staff placed on immediate leave “This is like taking out all the generals,” said a former Trump administration official informed of the decision.

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I was in Van in late Sept 2023 and thought the weather brilliant. You get a lot more sun than in Europe.

Yes it was scorching!

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Just about sums it up

I get we are in the attention economy & maybe it worked at first but now sick of it. There’s enough shambles in UK without this constantly. And people deserve to have a break. Also what’s it coming to if you have to rely on stunts to get people to care about an issue?

CDC ordered to stop working with WHO immediately, upending expectations of an extended withdrawal U.S. public health officials have been told to stop working with the World Health Organization, effective immediately. The surprise decision is focused on the U.S.

Withdrawing US funding from the World Health Organization is a potential disaster for public health worldwide, due to the impact it will have on the important work the WHO does. Preventing the CDC from even *talking* with WHO personnel is a step much farther toward undermining global health & safety