The African conception of sacrifice and its relationship with child sacrifice

Although the practice of human sacrifice is not new in the mythology around sacrifice in Africa, the practice of child mutilation and sacrifice at least in Uganda was just spoken about as fairytale. However events that have unraveled since the late 1990s have shocked the country with real cases of children being mutilated and killed in the context of what is commonly referred to as child sacrifice in Uganda. This paper presents the "African" meaning of the concept sacrifice and how demonstrates how the in African religious theology disassociates itself from murder and mutilation of children's body parts as part of the rituals for healing, dealing misfortunes or even prevention of unfortunate events. There was consensus from our study participants that although historically, there has been human and child sacrifice in the African and Uganda cultural mythology, the actual practice of these vices is a new phenomenon, not recognized and accepted in indigenous/traditional religious theology and practice of African religion and culture

Developing digital contact tracing tailored to haulage in East Africa to support COVID-19 surveillance: a protocol

International audienceIntroduction At the peak of Uganda’s first wave of SARS-CoV-2 in May 2020, one in three COVID-19 cases was linked to the haulage sector. This triggered a mandatory requirement for a negative PCR test result at all ports of entry and exit, resulting in significant delays as haulage drivers had to wait for 24–48 hours for results, which severely crippled the regional supply chain. To support public health and economic recovery, we aim to develop and test a mobile phone-based digital contact tracing (DCT) tool that both augments conventional contact tracing and also increases its speed and efficiency. Methods and analysis To test the DCT tool, we will use a stratified sample of haulage driver journeys, stratified by route type (regional and local journeys). We will include at least 65% of the haulage driver journeys ~83 200 on the network through Uganda. This allows us to capture variations in user demographics and socioeconomic characteristics that could influence the use and adoption of the DCT tool. The developed DCT tool will include a mobile application and web interface to collate and intelligently process data, whose output will support decision-making, resource allocation and feed mathematical models that predict epidemic waves. The main expected result will be an open source-tested DCT tool tailored to haulage use in developing countries. This study will inform the safe deployment of DCT technologies needed for combatting pandemics in low-income countries. Ethics and dissemination This work has received ethics approval from the School of Public Health Higher Degrees, Research and Ethics Committee at Makerere University and The Uganda National Council for Science and Technology. This work will be disseminated through peer-reviewed publications, our websites https://project-thea.org/ and Github for the open source code https://github.com/project-thea/

Tracking haulage in East Africa to support COVID-19 surveillance: THEA-C19 Sociology Report

The study objectives included; • Develop a mobile application for COVID-19 digital contact-tracing tool tailored to the haulage sector. The novelty here is in its enhanced privacy, using a unique universal identifier (UUID), digital -tracking boundary defined by the road infrastructure and simplicity based on conventional time-stamped GPS. • Conduct stakeholder consultative meetings to inform the mobile application development and deployment, through capturing user knowledge, attitudes and practices associated to COVID19, and dialogue on the study output, especially the impact of the technology on disease control and preparedness. • Examine the ethical, legal and social context of developing and deploying such technology in contact tracing. • Test the utility of mobile application technology among haulage truck drivers in Uganda, to determine its uptake, speed and efficiency in tracing of cases (drivers) and contacts, to reduce the spread into communities in the region, as well as improve flow of the regional supply chain. • Use the data generated to develop models that robustly map transmission risk, estimate the contribution of the haulage sector to the national disease epidemiology, and most importantly, inform resource allocation

Negotiating Family and Kinship Relationships among the Acholi in Poset-war Northern Uganda

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The Role of Barrier Crossing Leadership in the Promotion of Religious Freedom

This study replicates and extends Kavanagh et al.'s 2023 seven-country research, highlighting the correlation between support for religious freedom and ingroup identification and vivid recall of pivotal ingroup events. The original research linked group psychology with support for leaders bridging sectarian divides but relied on online data. This study administered the survey instrument in person with 1,506 individuals in The Gambia, Pakistan, Tanzania, and Uganda. In line with theoretical models, we found that group identification, identity fusion, and vivid recall of an ingroup event positively correlate with barrier-crossing leadership and support for religious freedom. Crucially, vivid recall of religious experiences and the reported impact on personal and group identity were found to be associated with broad support for religious freedom. These findings suggest the possibility that recalling religious experiences could be leveraged to help promote mutual respect and interfaith harmony. This research helps to clarify prior findings and suggests new approaches for fostering religious tolerance