Kampala, Uganda
$500 - $2000 / Day
WALTER MWESIGYE is a result oriented journalist based in Uganda whose reporting work focuses on science, health and the environment. With more than 7-years experience in Journalism, he is enthusiastic on telling stories that will impact community development. He works for NTV-Uganda a subsidiary of Nation Media Group in Uganda which is a conglomerate of various media outlets including radios and print media houses. His stories are aired by NTV Uganda, and also run in the Daily Monitor their sister newspaper.
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Every year close to one thousand five hundred girls in Uganda die due to complications resulting from unsafe abortions. 2017 Results from a Makerere University and Guttmacher Institute study show that over three hundred thousand women carried out induced abortions in 2013. But what drives these numbers even when abortions are illegal in the country.
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Sand and gravel are mined world-wide and account for the largest volume of solid material extracted globally. Formed by erosive processes over thousands of years, they are now being extracted at a rate far greater than their renewal. In this week’s panorama, Walter Mwesigye sheds light on the murky sand mining industry in Uganda run by cartels
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Air pollution in Uganda has now become so bad that the danger to health of people like cyclers and pedestrians plying their trade on the roads especially here in Kampala outweighs the benefits. New research shows that 90 minutes of open and constant exposure of oneself to the air in Kampala city could result into health complications some of which are chronic.
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