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𝐀F𝐒A B𝐨o𝐤 𝐋a𝐮n𝐜h: 𝐌y F𝐨o𝐝 𝐈s A𝐟r𝐢c𝐚n We are proud to officially launch My Food is African: Volume 2 — How Citizens Are Reclaiming African Food Systems, the newest addition to our Barefoot Guide series. These are real stories — told in their own words by the farmers, journalists, activists, market traders, chefs, and researchers living them, from across 50 African countries. Why does it matter? Ultra-processed foods are flooding our communities. Our seed systems are under threat. Our territorial markets — which feed 90% of Africa — face criminalisation and neglect. And yet, across the continent, citizens are organising, advocating, and reclaiming their food systems one community, one market, one policy at a time. This guide documents exactly that. From community radio in Zambia reaching two million listeners, to agroecological networks in Senegal securing land from local governments, to the Je Mange Camerounais movement making traditional food culturally trendy — Volume 2 maps what works, what fails, and why. It all started with four words. In May 2022, a young Zambian activist named Juliet Nangamba said "My food is African" — and a continent-wide movement was born. Today, that campaign is active in 11 countries and growing. Volume 2 covers: 🌱 The ultra-processed food crisis and community responses 🌱 Agroecology advocacy from practice to policy 🌱 Citizens as food system actors — radio, schools, markets, campaigns 🌱 Africa's territorial markets as food sovereignty infrastructure 🌱 Advocacy at the African Union, COP, and UN food governance spaces 🌱 A grounded vision for African food systems in 2045 "Food sovereignty is about agency — about who decides, about whose knowledge counts, about whose future is being built." 📥 Download your free copy — afsafrica.org/blog/my-food-i… Available in French || Je Mange Africain : Volume 2 afsafrica.org/blog/my-food-i… #MyFoodIsAfrican #FoodSovereignty #AfricanFoodSystems #Agroecology #BarefootGuide #FoodCitizens #JeMangeAfricain

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DID YOU KNOW? Uganda has already achieved these 7 important milestones: ✅️ Graduation criteria from the category of Least Developed Countries (LDCs) have been met. ✅️Ugandans are wealthier and more inclusive: Income poverty is now down to 16%; subsistence down to 33% and so is income inequality. The Gini index has reduced to 38% from 45% in 2002. ✅️Revenue collection has nearly doubled in the last 5-years—from Shs 17 trillion in FY2019/20 to Shs 32 trillion in FY2024/25. ✅️Remittances from Ugandans living and working abroad has reached USD 1.6 billion (~Shs 6 trillion) in FY 2024/25. ✅️There is increased trust in Uganda’s economy. Last calendar year, foreigners brought in over USD 5.4 billion (of which $3.7 billion were FDI and $1.7 billion portfolio investments). ✅️Life expectancy rose from roughly 50 years in 2000 to about 68.8 years in 2024.  ✅️The share of the population living within five kilometres of a health facility increased from about 80% to 91%. #TenfoldGrowth #DoingMore

𝐔𝐠𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐚 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐬 𝐏𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐜 𝐨𝐧 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐥 𝐒𝐚𝐟𝐞𝐭𝐲 𝐅𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐈𝐬𝐨𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐈𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐄𝐛𝐨𝐥𝐚 𝐂𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐋𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐃𝐑𝐂 The Uganda Tourism Board is reassuring the public, tourism partners, and the international community that Uganda remains safe for travel as it continues to monitor isolated imported Ebola cases linked to the Democratic Republic of Congo. #OpenGovUg

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In this episode of The Battle for African Agriculture, the second part of a three part series, Dr. Million Belay speaks with Pat Mooney, member of the IPES-Food, co founder and former director of ETC Group - Action Group on Erosion, Technology and Concentration, IFOAM Ambassador, and chair of the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy. Continuing their conversation, Pat reflects on how new technologies are repeatedly introduced as solutions while often creating new forms of dependence. He argues that this is not accidental but part of the economic logic of capitalism, where each new technology is designed not only to replace an older one but also to maintain control over markets and customers. From that perspective, he sees gene editing not as a genuine break from GMOs, but as a logical extension of the same trajectory of manipulating life for commercial control. The discussion then turns to Africa, where Pat Mooney warns that governments are under pressure to loosen biosafety laws and open the door to technologies presented as modern and necessary. He links this pressure to Africa’s land, climatic diversity, rich genetic resources, and rapidly growing population, all of which make the continent attractive to powerful commercial interests. He also addresses synthetic biology and the growing ability of companies to replace crops such as vanilla, cocoa, coffee, and tea with laboratory produced substitutes, shifting value away from farmers in the South toward industrial production in the North. For Pat, the core issue is not simply the novelty of the technologies themselves, but who controls them, who benefits from them, and who gets to decide whether they are safe, useful, or harmful. Pat Mooney also offers a wider critic of digital agriculture and the growing role of big tech companies in farming, warning that firms such as Google, Amazon, and Microsoft approach agriculture not as a living system but as another field of data to capture, process, and monetize. At the same time, he insists that digital tools could still be useful if they remain in the hands of farmers and communities, helping them share knowledge, monitor weather, respond to pests, and strengthen agroecological systems. He contrasts this with what he calls “high tech,” controlled from above, and “wide tech,” rooted in the collective intelligence of farmers working within their own ecosystems. The episode closes with a powerful story of resistance, as he recounts the global campaign against Terminator seeds, where farmers, civil society, and social movements came together to defend the moratorium and stop a technology that would have forced farmers to buy seed every season. Listen to the full conversation: YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=MnKyz4… Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/4RYzbu… Apple Podcast: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bat…

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Today, we officially welcomed the first of two newly leased aircraft into the Uganda Airlines fleet with a wet-leased Boeing 737-800 operated in partnership with Ethiopian Airlines. ✈️🇺🇬 This addition strengthens our operations and enhances flexibility as we continue to deliver greater connectivity across our network. #FlyUgandaAirlines

You’ve attended webinars on reports, budgets and “other matters arising.” 😄 Now join one on food, culture, identity and power. Register for the launch of My Food is African: Volume 2 and bring someone who thinks food is “just food.” #MyFoodIsAfrican #FoodSovereignty 👇

𝐘𝐨𝐮'𝐫𝐞 𝐈𝐧𝐯𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐝 — 𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐋𝐚𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐡 𝐖𝐞𝐛𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐫: 𝐌𝐲 𝐅𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐢𝐬 𝐀𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧: 𝐕𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐦𝐞 𝟐 We invite you to the virtual launch of My Food is African: Volume 2 — How Citizens Are Reclaiming African Food Systems, a new Barefoot Guide published by the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA). About the book: Food is never just food. It carries memory, power, culture, and politics. This guide — written collectively by farmers, journalists, activists, market traders, chefs, and researchers from across 50 African countries — documents a growing continental movement asking hard questions: Why are ultra-processed foods flooding our communities while real food becomes harder to find? Why are our seed systems criminalised, our markets marginalised, and our diets medicalised, while corporations shape food policy with ease? Across seven chapters, the book maps real stories of citizens reclaiming their food systems — from community markets and school gardens to national parliaments and global policy forums — and offers practical tools for organising, advocacy, and movement-building. At the webinar, expect: -Stories and reflections directly from the book's contributors -Discussion on agroecology, ultra-processed foods, territorial markets, and policy advocacy -Dialogue on what it means to move from food consumer to food citizen English and French interpretation available Event details: 📅 Tuesday, 26 May 2026 | ⏱ 90 minutes 🕐 4:00 PM EAT | 3:00 PM CAT/SAST | 2:00 PM WAT | 1:00 PM GMT 🔗 Register: afsafrica-org.zoom.us/meeting/regist… This launch is for citizens, journalists, youth, chefs, educators, researchers, farmers' organisations, policymakers, and everyone committed to African food sovereignty. "Food sovereignty is about agency — about who decides, about whose knowledge counts, about whose future is being built." We look forward to seeing you there.

🌱 𝐍E𝐖 𝐏U𝐁L𝐈C𝐀T𝐈O𝐍 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡𝐲 𝐒𝐨𝐢𝐥, 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡𝐲 𝐅𝐨𝐨𝐝, 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡𝐲 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝗥𝗲𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗔𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮'𝘀 𝗙𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗦𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺𝘀 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗚𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝗨𝗽 AFSA is proud to release its newest publication — a landmark, field-grounded account of how farmers and communities across ten African countries are restoring their soils, reclaiming their knowledge, and rebuilding food systems from the ground up. Across Africa, smallholder farmers are trapped in a familiar cycle: declining soil health, unstable yields and rising dependence on costly inputs. The roots of this crisis are structural — decades of policies promoting synthetic fertilisers have shaped an agricultural culture that treats soil as a substrate to be fed, rather than a living system to be regenerated. But a different reality is quietly taking shape. Through the Healthy Soil Healthy Food (HSHF) Initiative — a network of 16 community-based centres across Burkina Faso, Kenya, Malawi, Senegal, Togo, Uganda, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe and South Africa — farmers are demonstrating that restoring soil health is not only possible, but transformative. Using locally made bio-inputs, farmer-led experimentation and peer learning, communities are rebuilding fertility, reducing dependency on purchased inputs, and generating evidence that is shifting policy conversations across the continent. As AFSA General Coordinator Million Belay writes in the foreword: "𝘞ℎ𝘦𝑛 𝑓𝘢𝑟𝘮𝑒𝘳𝑠 𝑒𝘹𝑝𝘦𝑟𝘪𝑚𝘦𝑛𝘵 𝘵𝑜𝘨𝑒𝘵ℎ𝘦𝑟, 𝘦𝑥𝘤ℎ𝘢𝑛𝘨𝑒 𝑘𝘯𝑜𝘸𝑙𝘦𝑑𝘨𝑒, 𝘢𝑛𝘥 𝘰𝑏𝘴𝑒𝘳𝑣𝘦 𝘳𝑒𝘴𝑢𝘭𝑡𝘴 𝘪𝑛 𝑡𝘩𝑒𝘪𝑟 𝑜𝘸𝑛 𝑐𝘰𝑛𝘵𝑒𝘹𝑡𝘴, 𝑠𝘰𝑙𝘶𝑡𝘪𝑜𝘯𝑠 𝑑𝘰 𝘯𝑜𝘵 𝘫𝑢𝘴𝑡 𝑠𝘱𝑟𝘦𝑎𝘥 — 𝘵ℎ𝘦𝑦 𝑡𝘢𝑘𝘦 𝘳𝑜𝘰𝑡. 𝘛ℎ𝘦𝑦 𝑎𝘥𝑎𝘱𝑡, 𝘦𝑣𝘰𝑙𝘷𝑒, 𝘢𝑛𝘥 𝘦𝑛𝘥𝑢𝘳𝑒." This publication documents those solutions. It profiles centre experiences, captures key lessons, and closes with concrete recommendations for governments, research institutions, civil society and donors to invest in and scale what is already working. Healthy soils are not simply an environmental concern. They are a foundation for dignity, food sovereignty, and the wellbeing of communities across the continent. 📥 Click here to download the publication afsafrica.org/wp-content/upl… #ProtectOurLandRestoreOurSoil #HealthySoilHealthyFood #FoodSovereignty #Agroecology

Who has the keys to Strait? Comrades, straight out of the Nalukolongo workshop, the Tank Tainers have undergone full refurbishment. Over 100 tanks are scheduled for working. All rehabilitated tankers will be deployed to transport fuel from Kisumu to Porbell.

Ghana has rejected a $109m US health deal over data protection concerns. Zimbabwe has also turned down a similar offer. The BBC’s Thomas Naadi explains why some African nations are pushing back.

These images are stark. And Greenpeace Netherlands activists went to great lengths to put them up to disrupt a shareholder meeting of a company you probably have never heard about: JBS. But this is why you should care, especially if you are in Africa, specifically Nigeria. JBS is the world's largest meat company, responsible for massive destruction of the Amazon Forest, convicted of corruption and linked to slavery. It is planning a massive 6 billion-dollar expansion, about half of which is earmarked for Nigeria. Already, 1.2 million hectares of land, possibly Nigerian community lands, have been set aside for their factories. The agreement between JBS and the Nigerian government has never been made public. Not one environmental impact assessment. Not one human rights assessment. Freedom of Information requests filed by Nigerian civil society organisations have been met with silence. So today, Greenpeace Netherlands disrupted JBS's first AGM on Dutch soil in Amsterdam, having delivered a legal letter demanding disclosure of climate, nature, and human rights impact assessments. Greenpeace Africa already filed an amicus curiae submission before the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights last month, arguing that facilitating this expansion without transparency or community consent violates Nigeria's obligations under the African Charter. On this very day, the government of Brazil filed a lawsuit against JBS, accusing it of buying cattle from farms where workers were held in slavery-like conditions We aim to stop this exploitative and environmentally toxic business model before it takes root in Africa and drains water sources, disrupts food systems and displaces communities.

BIG ANNOUNCEMENT 📢📢📢 Kampala among cities to benefit from $350 million Global Road Safety initiative. We have secured renewed international support to strengthen road safety efforts under a new $350 million global investment through the Bloomberg Philanthropies Initiative for Global Road Safety @BloombergDotOrg, part of Bloomberg Philanthropies’ public health programme. Details kcca.go.ug/news/1124 #ForALivableCity

A new chapter in Uganda’s urban mobility journey begins today as E-Bus Xpress (EBX) officially launches operations in the Greater Kampala Metropolitan Area (GKMA), powered by locally manufactured electric buses from Kiira Motors Corporation. This milestone marks a major step towards a cleaner, smarter and more organised public transport system for Kampala. The inaugural routes are: City Square – Nakawa – Ntinda – Bukoto – Kamwokya – Wandegeya City Square – Wandegeya – Kamwokya – Bukoto – Ntinda – Nakawa – City Square Uganda is driving into the future with innovation, sustainability and home-grown solutions at the centre of national transformation. #OpenGovUg

𝐒𝐀𝐕𝐄 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐃𝐀𝐓𝐄 | 𝟐𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐨 𝐁𝐚𝐬𝐢𝐧 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 — 𝐉𝐮𝐥𝐲 14-16, 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔 | 𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐳𝐳𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐞, 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐜 𝐨𝐟 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐨 AFSA is proud to announce the 2nd Congo Basin Convening: Securing the Heart of Africa — People, Nature, Food and Climate Resilience. Building on the landmark 2023 Kinshasa Summit, this convening will bring together civil society, farmer organisations, Indigenous Peoples and local communities, governments, researchers, and partners from across the six Congo Basin countries and beyond to advance agroecology, food sovereignty, biodiversity conservation, and climate justice in one of the world's most vital ecosystems. Mark your calendars and spread the word! This is a defining moment to review progress since Kinshasa, strengthen regional coordination, and adopt a concrete Brazzaville 2026 Declaration and action roadmap. Together, we are securing the heart of Africa. 🌍 #CongoBasin #FoodSovereignty #Agroecology #ClimateJustice #Biodiversity 🌿 𝐑𝐄́𝐒𝐄𝐑𝐕𝐄𝐙 𝐋𝐀 𝐃𝐀𝐓𝐄 | 𝟐𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐞́𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐝𝐮 𝐁𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐧 𝐝𝐮 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐨 - 14-16, 𝐣𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐭 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔 | 𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐳𝐳𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐞, 𝐑𝐞́𝐩𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐪𝐮𝐞 𝐝𝐮 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐨 L'AFSA est fière d'annoncer la 2e Conférence du Bassin du Congo : Sécuriser le cœur de l'Afrique — Peuples, nature, l'alimentation et résilience climatique. S'appuyant sur le Sommet historique de Kinshasa en 2023, cette conférence réunira la société civile, les organisations paysannes, les peuples autochtones et les communautés locales, les gouvernements, les chercheurs et les partenaires des six pays du Bassin du Congo pour faire avancer l'agroécologie, la souveraineté alimentaire, la conservation de la biodiversité et la justice climatique dans l'un des écosystèmes les plus vitaux au monde. Marquez vos agendas et faites passer le mot ! C'est un moment décisif pour évaluer les progrès réalisés depuis Kinshasa, renforcer la coordination régionale et adopter une Déclaration de Brazzaville 2026 et une feuille de route concrète. Ensemble, nous sécurisons le cœur de l'Afrique. 🌍 #BassindDuCongo #SouverainetéAlimentaire #Agroécologie #JusticeClimatique #Biodiversité