Out of the many cancers affecting children, leukemia is the most common and covers a high percentage of the cancers and yet, people know little about it.

Although leukemia is among the most common childhood cancers, it most often occurs in older adults. It is more common in men than women and death rates from leukemia are higher among the elderly. In children, 70 per cent are cured. 

The country is in shock after the sad news about the death of Alex Sempijja, one of the “triplets” in Musician Eddie Kenzo’s famous Sitya Loss emerged. 

The late Alex Sempijja

For anyone who has been following Uganda's pop music scene, it goes without saying that Jackie Chandiru is no longer the musical goddess she used to be. Her dwindling entertaining skills and charisma were fully manifested at the pearl rhythm festival, held last Saturday at the national theatre.

Festival goers questioned why the festival organizers had invited Chandiru to perform and rightly so. Pearl rhythm is a very artistic event and yet the same can't be said for Chandiru.