The scientific evidence accumulated by the IPCC shows that climate change is a threat to human well-being and planetary health. Forced displacement of populations, mostly internal numbering in millions, one dramatic consequences. To prevent it provide comprehensive protection victims (Internally Displaced Persons), African Union adopted, 2009, its Convention for Protection Assistance Internally...

The idea of the modern city continues to inform urban policies and practices, shaping ideas what infrastructure is how it ought work. While there has long been conflict over its meaning relevance, particularly in southern cities, alternatives remain difficult identify. In this paper, we ‘read for difference’ practices sanitation Kampala, purposefully looking evidence an alternative imaginary. W...

This study configures the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model with updated urban fraction for optimal rainfall simulation over Kampala, Uganda. The parameter values associated fractions are adjusted based on literature reviews. An extreme event that triggered a flood hazard in Kampala 25 June 2012 is used simulation. Observed from two gauging stations satellite Climate Hazards Group In...

On 10 September 2019, the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) Convention Governing Specific Aspects Refugee Problems in Africa (OAU Convention) turned 50, while on 23 October 2019 Union (AU) for Protection and Assistance Internally Displaced Persons (Kampala 10. It is against this backdrop that designation by AU Assembly Heads State Government as Year Refugees, Returnees (IDPs) Africa, signific...

During the past decade, there has been a large influx of population into Kampala and the adjacent Mengo District of Buganda, and, in addition, people are becoming more and more hospital conscious. Both changes have considerably increased the number of attendances at hospital, thereby creating special problems in looking after an increasing number of patients without an expanding bed space. An i...

A prospective descriptive study based on 208 cases of groin hernia that had surgery at Mulago Hospital over a 12-months period beginning on 1st January 2000 was undertaken. There were more males than females. The mean age was 35.4 years with the mode and median of 40 and 33 years respectively. Patients under 15 years were 37 (17.8%) and had a peak incidence in the 1-3 years age group while in a...

The AU Kampala Convention aims to ensure that the states have signed treaty protect and assist internally displaced persons (IDPs) in their regions establish geopolitical security, which is threatened by inevitability, volume heterogeneity of forced displacement. This article interrogates link between minimisation interstate conflict through a political will tackle challenge displacement amongs...