New Vision Podcast
Episodes
481 episodes
Uganda’s first bone marrow transplant
Uganda has just achieved a groundbreaking milestone in healthcare. For the very first time, local doctors at the Uganda Cancer Institute successfully performed a bone marrow transplant. The patient, 45-year-old Stephen Sande from Na...
The children malaria is taking in Lango
Malaria continues to claim young lives across northern Uganda, with districts in Lango among the hardest hit. Despite ongoing prevention and treatment efforts, hospitals remain overwhelmed and many children are still arriving too late to be sav...
Inside the Ggaba daycare open trial
Four young children were killed inside a daycare in Ggaba, Kampala, and now the man accused, Christopher Okello Onyum, is on trial in the open.
The rise and fall of Agnes Nandutu
Agnes Nandutu rose from a prominent Ugandan journalist to a government minister, only for her career to collapse in an iron sheets saga, conviction, and prison. This episode traces her journey through the media, politics, and the scandal that l...
Ggaba daycare murders: Suspect was 'not insane'
This episode unpacks the Ggaba daycare killings, where four toddlers lost their lives in a brutal and carefully planned attack. As investigations deepen, new claims have emerged from Florence Nansamba linking 39-year-old suspect Christopher Oke...
Soroti murder: Kokunda’s final moments [Around Uganda]
In Soroti City, a routine morning turned tragic when mobile money agent Patricia Kokunda was attacked and fatally shot on Good Friday. In this episode, we retrace her final moments through a police reconstruction that has revealed how the killi...
Crime goes down but danger stays [New Vision CSI: Crime Stories]
Uganda recorded a drop in overall crime in 2025, but the danger hasn’t gone away. From deadly highway crashes and shocking murders to corruption investigations and major police operations, this episode of New Vision CSI: Crime Stories takes you...
[Runyoro] How Bunyoro is improving performance in sciences
As Uganda places growing emphasis on science education and Bunyoro prepares for a science focused university, the region is working to strengthen how students perform in science subjects. From classroom innovations to local initiatives, schools...
Seeking answers in Pamela Tumwebaze's murder [New Vision CSI: Crime Stories]
Pamela Tumwebaze's death left her family searching for answers. In this episode, we follow the questions her sister Rebecca Tumwebaze's questions, the arrest of suspect Hussein Dak Taewaiko, and the scene reconstruction where he walked police t...
The mark they cannot see: When consumer protection leaves the blind behind [PART 2]
This two-part podcast by Jesse Johnson James explores the gap between policy and lived reality for visually impaired consumers in Uganda, despite the country’s progress toward inclusive development under the Millennium Development Goals....
The mark they cannot see: When consumer protection leaves the blind behind [PART 1]
This two-part podcast explores the gap between policy and lived reality for visually impaired consumers in Uganda, despite the country’s progress toward inclusive development under the Millennium Development Goals.The podcast ultimately ...
Poor health seeking behaviour, a time bomb in the communities
Poor health seeking behaviour, a time bomb in the communities
Jazz with Jajja: Museveni urges youth to join poverty fight
President Yoweri Museveni and the First Lady, also the Minister of Education and Sports, Maama Janet Kataaha Museveni have hosted the second edition of Jazz with Jajja at their Kisozi farm in Gomba district.The Sunday, March 1, 2026, eve...
The women changing the face of malaria fight
Malaria remains one of Uganda’s biggest public health challenges but behind the statistics are scientists working to stop the disease before it even reaches people. In this episode, we’re joined by Angella Nakamaanya, an Insectary Assistant Tar...
Dance for nature: How communities can turn conservation into opportunity
In this episode of Around Uganda, Raziah Athman speaks with conservationist and former Bwindi ranger Hebert Banobi about the role communities play in protecting Uganda’s natural heritage. He highlights the value of planting indigenous trees, cr...
China deepens engagement with Uganda's youth [Beijing Chronicles]
2026 is the Year of the Horse for China, and in Uganda, it is being marked with a renewed emphasis on people-to-people exchange. The Lunar New Year begins on February 17, 2026, ushering in the Year of the Fire Horse. Young Ugandans welcomed the...
Karamoja’s stolen childhood [Part 5: Where are street kids buried]
In the shadows of Kampala, deep inside Katwe-Kinyoro - the slum many call “Kikaramoja” - children are bought, registered, priced, and pushed onto the streets to beg. In this episode, we name the prime suspects, trace the money trail between Nap...
Karamoja’s Stolen Childhood [Part 4: Crackdown on child trafficking rings]
In this episode, leaders propose a solution to the child trafficking problem as shoddy NGOs and government big wigs are named in the Karamojong street kids' crisis.
Karamoja’s stolen childhood [Part 3: The hidden pipeline]
In part three of Karamoja’s stolen childhood, we uncover the hidden pipeline, a shadowy network quietly moving children from the villages of Karamoja to the streets of Kampala
Karamoja’s stolen childhood [Part 2: The Karamoja we never hear about]
In this second episode of Karamoja’s stolen childhood, we demystify myths, showing you the Karamoja we never hear about. Who is profiting from bringing Karimojong children to beg on Kampala streets? How are they recruited? And why does the syst...
Karamoja’s stolen childhood [Part 1: The pipeline to Kampala]
On the restless streets of Kampala, childhood flickers in traffic lights, small hands stretched between cars, soft voices swallowed by engines, eyes too weary for their years. To many, they are just street children. To others, they are a nuisan...
Blending dance therapy and counseling
Dance Plus Therapy, an approach that blends movement with counseling and peer support, is helping youth reclaim their lives one step at a time.
Wounds of the war [Part 2]
More than a decade after the guns fell silent in Northern Uganda, this two -part podcast reveals a different kind of war still raging, the invisible battle inside the minds of journalists who reported on the Lord’s Resistance Army insurgency.