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[Zebek @zebekltd]

NEWS: Legendary Ugandan festival Nyege Nyege is launching its first European edition, Mirror World, in Brussels this September.

The two-day festival will feature 40+ artists across music, performance, visual culture, film and talks, with tickets priced at €30 to prioritise accessibility.

📥 Journalists can download the full press release for details and interview opportunities below.
https://t.co/RWBozPXaF6

#NyegeNyege #MirrorWorld #BrusselsEvents #ArtsAndCulture

[Prof. Lee White CBE @LeeJTWHITE]

Last month, I spoke at the launch of the 2025 Congo Basin Assessment Report, where I highlighted several of the report's key findings and their implications for the future of the region.

For those interested in exploring these ideas further, I have expanded on some of the key messages from my presentation and the broader findings of the assessment in the article below.

The full report is also linked at the end for more detail. I would be interested to hear your thoughts.
https://t.co/FOLN0DUrjb

[Prof. Lee White CBE @LeeJTWHITE]

https://t.co/oy22FcueLE

[Zebek @zebekltd]

The moment is historic not only because of where it is taking place, but because of what is being carried there: a Ugandan sound, a Busoga tradition, and a form of collective performance being given global visibility on one of the world’s most influential contemporary art stages.
Full press release available here: https://t.co/lsr2q47MZl
For interviews and further information, contact Afsa Umutesi at [email protected].

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Uganda takes centre stage in Venice.
We are proud to support the international communications around a historic cultural moment: the Nakibembe Embaire Group from Busoga opening this year’s Venice Biennale at Palazzo Grassi on 7 May 2026.

[Zebek @zebekltd]

Custodians of the Embaire, a large communal xylophone played by multiple musicians at once, the group brings one of Uganda’s most powerful living traditions to one of the world’s most prestigious art stages. Their performance, presented in conjunction with an exhibition by Michael Armitage, places Ugandan sound, heritage and collective performance in direct conversation with contemporary art.

[NetflixSA @NetflixSA]

'She had magnetism. I would just say she was the influencer of influencers.' - Professor Thuli Madonsela on Winnie Mandela.

📺: The Trials of Winnie Mandela"

[Prof. Lee White CBE @LeeJTWHITE]

Tomorrow I’ll be in Greifswald speaking about the Congo Basin, a system I’ve spent much of my life trying to understand and protect.

After decades working in these forests, what stands out most is not just their complexity but how often they are overlooked in the rooms where global priorities are set.

This lecture is an opportunity to explore two things:
- why the Congo Basin is a critical life-support system for the planet
- why bridging science and policy is essential if we are serious about protecting it

I’ll also touch on the connections between planetary, ecosystem and human health (an area that is becoming increasingly impossible to ignore).

Open to all and I hope the conversation continues well beyond the room.
#CongoBasin #OneHealth #Climate #Biodiversity #GlobalPolicy

[Prof. Lee White CBE @LeeJTWHITE]

In my latest article, I highlight a few of the key reflections from my chapter on the impacts and future of the oil and mining sectors in the Congo Basin that has just been published in the Science Panel for the Congo Basin 2025 report.

Authored with fellow scientists Pascal Mambwe Matanda, PhD, Bila-Isia Inogwabini, industrialists Kumar Mohan and Ivor Ichikowitz, this chapter looks at the sectors and considers their role in the future, be that positive or negative.

https://t.co/AKBJKCiEeK

[New York Post @nypost]

Uganda reintroduces rhinos into a protected area after they were poached to near-exctinction https://t.co/87mhKIcDG8

[Reuters Africa @ReutersAfrica]

For the first time in more than 40 years, rhinos are back in Uganda's Kidepo Valley National Park after poachers there slaughtered them all for their prized horns and meat. https://t.co/rwKzpxQS6I

[Zoom Afrika @zoomafrika1]

Rhinos are back in Uganda's wild after 40 years, following their extinction due to poaching in the 1980s!

[Reuters Africa @ReutersAfrica]

For the first time in more than 40 years, rhinos are back in Uganda's Kidepo Valley National Park after poachers there slaughtered them all for their prized horns and meat. https://t.co/DehbhXsqLo

[BBC News (World) @BBCWorld]

Forty years after the last one was poached rhinos are back in the wild in Uganda https://t.co/yb3T6iEDy8

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Professor Lee White: ‘I’d rather face Boko Haram terrorists than climate negotiations’ https://t.co/KMIU7N8qRX via @Cherwell

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“Nature can be very subtle indeed. When a flower unfurls its petals, it does so gradually, almost imperceptibly. There is nothing subtle, however, about a startled elephant. On day two of our journey through Uganda, a large bull—disturbed during his nocturnal wanderings—flapped his ears and bellowed, making his presence unmistakably known.”

Jenny McBain for The Scotsman Magazine, following our latest press trip to Uganda.

[Ivor Ichikowitz @ivorichikowitz]

A short film of our work on the #AfricanYouthSurvey, giving youth in Africa a voice. Covering corruption, emigration, technology, environment, future ambitions, fake news, foreign influences, democracy and government and their quality of life. Taking the heartbeat of a generation. #YouthVoice #Insights @Ichikowitz

[NileWires @NileWires]

Uganda posts record-breaking coffee export earnings, takes ‘Bean to Beauty’ campaign to Switzerland https://t.co/ML7vO6HdPc

[Prof. Lee White CBE @LeeJTWHITE]

https://t.co/gP8AeK24Nr