The world spent $1 billion less on AIDS, jeopardizing decades of progress
The 21st International AIDS Conference convened last week amid an emerging global consensus that the end to an epidemic that has killed 35 million people might be achievable. Just weeks before the conference, a high-level meeting of United Nations members in New York issued a declaration renewing commitments to end AIDS by 2030. That optimism […]
Ugandan president’s victory disputed by opposition
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, one of the most prominent U.S. allies in East Africa, routed his opponents in the country’s presidential election, but Thursday’s vote was dogged by international criticism and concerns about the repeated detention of the main opposition leader. Read more.
Top opposition candidate briefly detained as Ugandans go to the polls
Police arrested Uganda’s leading opposition presidential candidate Thursday, just as results started to trickle in from an election that focused on whether the country’s ruler would extend his 30-year grip on power. Read more.