Diana Taremwa Karakire

Diana Taremwa Karakire

Diana Taremwa Karakire is a freelance journalist based in Uganda.

She specializes in reporting on energy issues, minerals and climate change. She writes on a freelance basis for the African Business Magazine and the Heavy Lift & Project Forwarding International magazine. She can be reached on +256700898537 and dianataremwa@yahoo.com, dianakarakire@gmail.com. @TaremwaD

Twitter: @AfiegoUg

Africa-EU cooperation vital for energy transformation in Africa

Africa-EU cooperation vital for energy transformation in Africa

Abel Rugaju runs RAN power, a social enterprise in Uganda that is dedicated to extending power to offgrid rural communities by building small hydro-power plants. Lois Gicheru is the founder of Solarfrique, a start-up that is dedicated to installing solar panels in Kenya’s rural areas “We are targeting rural offgrid…

Diana Taremwa Karakire

Diana Taremwa Karakire is a freelance journalist based in Uganda.

How one women’s group is fighting climate change in Uganda

How one women’s group is fighting climate change in Uganda

On a slanting hill, Beatrice Rukanyanga looks over her lush green fruit garden boosted by weeks of steady rains, a rare occurrence in this part of the country after seasons of back-to-back droughts. Beatrice started fruit tree growing after joining the Kwatanisa Womens Group, a local group in Uganda’s Hoima district…

Diana Taremwa Karakire is a freelance journalist based in Uganda.

Magufuli: what next?

Magufuli: what next?

John Pombe Magufuli earned a doctorate in Chemistry from the University of Dar es Salaam in 2009 and five years later became president of Tanzania. He has since impressed many, including his former critics with his hands on leadership style in the East African nation. “I will fight corruption without fear or favor; I will…

Diana Taremwa Karakire is a freelance journalist based in Uganda.

Addressing clean energy needs in Africa – solar power

Three years ago, Rehema Kanama nearly left from her off grid rural home in western Uganda for a better life in the city. But the 35-year old single mother quickly changed her mind after signing a lease agreement with Solar Now, for a solar connection. Today she no longer has…

Diana Taremwa Karakire

Diana Taremwa Karakire is a freelance journalist based in Uganda.