Uganda Airlines takes off again

Uganda Airlines, the country's national carrier, takes off again after having been grounded for eighteen years. Former Ugandan pilot and ex-government official Captain Francis Babu thinks that the new airline can hope for a bright future.

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By 2030, over half of the world's poor will be made up by African children. This is according to new research from the Overseas Development Institute and Save The Children.

(Photo: Ugandas Prime Minister Ruhakana Rugunda, flanked by Minister and Transport Eng. Monica Azuba Ntege and the State Minister for Tourism Godfrey Kiwanda, take part in the launching ceremony of Uganda Airlines maiden flight to Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi. Credit: ISAAC KASAMANI/AFP/Getty Images)