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Saw a patient today with a hemoglobin of 1.9 g/dL. For context, a level that low is almost incompatible with normal consciousness, but she walked right into the clinic on her own feet. For three long years, she lived with crushing weakness and since last 6 months breathlessness from just walking across a room. Why didn’t she get help sooner? At first, it was because the kids had crucial school exams and later her husband was reluctant to deal with the hassle of a hospital admission. Her health was treated as a background inconvenience. When we dug deeper, it got worse. A year ago, her Hb was 6.4 g/dL. A doctor explicitly told them she needed immediate admission. The family refused, walked out with a basic strip of iron tablets, she took them for two weeks, forgot about them, and nobody in the house ever bothered to check on her or remind her. She didn't even come to the hospital today because of the air hunger. She came because her periods had completely stopped for months. Her body was so profoundly starved of iron and oxygen that it literally shut down her reproductive axis just to divert what little blood she had left to her heart and brain. It’s completely heartbreaking. A woman will literally bleed her body dry, gasp for air for years and keep working silently, only to be brought to a doctor when her normal functioning stops. Please check on the women in your homes. Stop letting them normalize chronic exhaustion.

What is it exactly that makes a property in Kampala more expensive than a property in New York of the same size? That has totally confused me and I’m wondering in what world this is even possible. Our property market is strange, to say the least.

27 years ago, the backstreet boys released ‘i want it that way’

A surprising amount of adulthood is finally realizing that structure is not the opposite of freedom. It’s the thing that keeps freedom from turning into aimlessness.

Next time you see this painting, remember the artist behind it — Annie Lee didn’t pursue art professionally until age 40

Woman at finance event talks about working at the central bank Chef at food event talks about working at a Michelin-starred restaurant I don’t see the problem. I think people conflate humility with self-abasement far too often. Let people toot their horns where it’s deserved.

So if a woman gets a tubal ligation because she doesn’t want children, it’s “ridiculous and immature” and if she has a child, works hard and plans well for said child, she’s “too much” and “boisterous”. We can’t win in the court of public opinion, walayi

One of the telling things about our society at our functions is how we behave around food: 1. People loading more food on their plates than they can finish, and without feeling ashamed of the heaps on their plates 2. The fact that people have to be served, because they don’t know how to share limited resources 3. When given a chance for self service, people serving themselves without any regard to those behind them that might not get. Five pieces of chicken are left in the dish, and someone serves himself three of them (with 20 people behind him) 4. People eating more than they need, just because there is free food 5. People acting impatient as if they would die if they took 10 more minutes before their turn to serve (okulookalooka/ okululunkana) 6. Serving the second time (double) before others get anything, and pretending not to have eaten at all 7. Packing food to take home when some people present haven’t got 8. Catering service providers hiding food. While these habits might seem isolated and only related to food, they ALL vividly manifest themselves when we are in charge of any resources that have to be shared. Think about it. Our biggest problems as a country are around GREED, SELFISHNESS, DISHONESTY, and lack of a sense of SHAME

Unpopular Opinion - It is okay to be 20 and have to seek permission to leave your parents’ house. - It is okay to be 30 and have to seek permission to leave your parents’ house. - It is okay to be 40 and have to seek permission to leave your parents’ house. No one knows the circumstances in your household more than you do. If you become a rebel because other people are rebels in their households, you might find yourself without a roof over your head. Don’t let other people’s standards blind you from your own circumstances. And your circumstances are not unfortunate, they are just different. Embrace it and lead a peaceful life.

I used to think my dad just had a weird habit. Every night, no matter how late it was, he’d check if I was asleep. Like actually come into my room, stand there for a second, then leave. I remember pretending to sleep sometimes just to see how long he’d stay. Sometimes he’d fix my blanket, sometimes he’d just sigh and walk out. As I got older, I thought it was kinda annoying. Like… why are you still doing that? One night I finally asked him. He just shrugged and said, “Just checking.” Years later, my mom told me the real reason. When I was a baby, I got really sick out of nowhere. Stopped breathing in my sleep. They barely made it to the hospital in time. After that, he never fully trusted “quiet.” So every night, for years… he just needed to see my chest rise at least once before he could relax. 🥹

Behind that ranger sits part of 105 tonnes of ivory worth roughly $150 million on the black market. Days after this photo, Kenya soaked the lot in jet fuel and burned it. Critics warned it would backfire. A decade on, ivory prices have crashed and poaching is at a 20-year low. The piles held the tusks of around 7,000 elephants and the horns of 343 rhinos. It was the biggest ivory burn in history. The full stockpile was about 5 percent of all the ivory sitting in African government storerooms at the time. Kenya's entire annual environment budget was smaller than what they were about to set on fire. The argument against burning was simple. Cut the supply, push up the price, poachers come back harder. One conservation economist compared the move to Iraq going offline during the Iran-Iraq war, when oil prices spiked. Burn $150 million of ivory and the same shock should hit. None of that happened. Raw ivory in China peaked at around $2,100 per kilogram in 2014. Then Kenya burned its stockpile in April 2016, China shut its legal ivory market in December 2017, and similar bans rolled through the US, Europe, and elsewhere. The price broke. By 2020, the going price across Africa had fallen to about $92 per kilogram. In Kenya specifically, what a poacher could get for a kilo of raw tusk dropped from $190 in 2014 to $52 by 2018. Inside China, the share of people saying they would ever buy ivory fell from 43 percent before the ban to 18 percent by 2020. The bet was based on an old number. A 2014 Sheldrick Wildlife Trust study found that one live elephant brings in around $23,000 a year in tourism revenue. Across a 70-year lifespan, that is roughly $1.6 million. Its tusks, ripped out, sell for around $21,000. That is the 76-to-1 ratio that gets thrown around in conservation circles. Kenya runs around 10 percent of its economy on tourism today, almost all of it built around live wildlife. The numbers since have backed the call. The UN's 2024 wildlife crime report says the global ivory market is shrinking, with seizures and poaching both down. A 2024 Colorado State study found African elephant numbers fell 77 percent on average between 1964 and 2016. After 2016, things turned. Forest elephant decline slowed from 7 percent a year to under 1. Savanna elephant poaching is at its lowest level since global tracking started in 2003. The ranger in this photo is guarding ivory Kenya was about to destroy on purpose. Within four years, the market for what he was guarding had collapsed.

1.Professionalism. You see and feel this every time you step into his Salon. Celebrity or not, you receive a First Class service. Very rare in that sector. Also helps that he is extremely down to earth. 2.Talent. He is really really reaaaaaally good at what he does. 3.Luck/Favor/Grace…whatever you want to call it. He has it.

There’s something deeply wrong when a simple administrative error turns into a citizen’s burden. A young woman was issued a National ID by @NIRA_Ug with conflicting information her date of birth reflects 1996, while her NIN records 1986. Because of this inconsistency, she has been denied access to her own money at her bank @CentenaryBank. Her identity, the very thing the ID is supposed to guarantee is now being questioned. When she sought help from a nearby NIRA office, instead of a solution, she was asked to pay UGX 200,000, with claims that the correction process is complicated and lengthy. Now the question is: Is it the citizen’s responsibility to pay for errors they did not make? And why should access to one’s own finances be blocked due to institutional mistakes? @NIRA_Ug and @CentenaryBank over to you.

Tonight we’re diving into what happens when couples who’ve built empires together—assets, family, even a whole brand—decide to part ways. How do you split the pie without burning the kitchen? How do you coexist after the “we” becomes “you and me”with our special guest

Your entire understanding of power is proximity ; standing close to important men, laughing at unfunny jokes, and mistaking errands for influence. If Junet sneezes, you reach for a tissue and call it strategy. While others read policy, argue law, and defend the republic, you perfect the art of hovering. Warming seats. Carrying messages. Polishing egos. A full-time political househelp with a taxpayer-funded badge and zero intellectual property. You are not in the room where decisions are made. You are in the kitchen listening through the door. Your legacy is whispers, rumors, and “I was there.” No ideas. No record. No courage. No spine. A political waiter with an empty tray, begging for crumbs and calling it a career.

Cain killed his brother and still didn't become the accepted one. Pulling people down will NEVER raise you up.

I genuinely believe after a certain age you need to have honest conversations with yourself like, I shouldn't be drinking this much, I shouldn't be wasting money like this, I shouldn't be sleeping around like this, I shouldn't be eating so unhealthy, I shouldn't be badmouthing people like this, because you can get away with a lot of unhealthy habits while you are younger but everything eventually catches up with you and there's always a price to pay, you end up paying for it for the rest of your remaining days on earth & it's not worth it.

Sometimes Satan is innocent 🤷🏻‍♂️

@collinstimbela_ The thing is, intelligence isn't just about IQ points or who wins at trivia, it's processing speed, depth of curiosity, how you see patterns, handle ideas, or even crack jokes.

Me whose moral views were shaped by Ocean's 11 and The Italian Job mentally putting together a squad with @MissNerima as the red herring