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Added on 10 March 2010
03 March 2010
Dear Readers, it is another start to a new month and we in the Northern Hemisphere have one more month to go before the end of this cold winter. The one thing worth noting at this time has been the change in weather patterns. While in Kampala, Uganda, I experienced some of my hottest days in [...]
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27 November 2009
Sheraton Hotel Special Rate Offer Exclusively for Ugandans in the diaspora, Single Occupancy USD $135*, Double Occupancy USD $160*, Inclusive of a full American Breakfast Buffet, free WIFI and free access to our health & recreation facilities. Email: reservation.kampala@sheraton.com
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09 March 2010
The International Organization for Migration and the United Nations Development Programmes have a community-based reintegration programme in Northern Uganda. The Programme works with communities to identify vulnerable youth, Ex-combatants, Unemployed Youth, People abducted by rebels during the war in Northern Uganda. The Programme helps these young people get jobs. Jobs change lives.
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07 March 2010
KAMPALA (IRIN) – The lack of adequate sanitation facilities in the Ugandan capital, Kampala, has led to increased use of polythene bags – known as “flying toilets” – for human waste disposal, local officials said. The situation is worse in slums where infrastructure is basic. The few private and public facilities that exist charge up to [...]
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05 March 2010
Rescuers search for survivors buried underneath the mud. A landslide forced by a seven hour downpour engulfed this village in eastern Uganda. Parts of Uganda and Kenya have sustained rain for much of the past two months, which is usually a dry period between rainy seasons. A government response team is on the ground and the Red Cross [...]
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05 March 2010
A sample of DJ Kuuz’s video mix | http://www.youtube.com/user/djkuuz Here is an insight into the life of one of the Best Ugandan Up and Coming Video Deejays | Born in kampala Uganda (Africa), but raised in Nakulabye, AM the so called spin master Dj kuuz (real name Kuzaifa Bossa) – In His own Words – [...]
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05 March 2010
(CNN) — Heavy rain, hilly terrain and inadequate equipment slowed efforts to recover hundreds of people feared killed by a massive landslide in eastern Uganda, officials said Thursday. About 300 people were missing and feared dead after Monday’s landslide, including 100 students, said Catherine Ntabadde, a spokeswoman for the Ugandan Red Cross Society. At least 87 [...]
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05 March 2010
By Ronnie Mayanja | www.unaatimes.com | The Real Estate Market as I saw it | Last December I was quite impressed to witness first hand the booming real estate market in Uganda. What was perhaps was more surprising was the prices many of the realtors and property moguls were charging for some of these palatial [...]
Posted in Featured, News, Real Estate4 Comments
04 March 2010
By Solomon W. Jagwe | www.unaatimes.com | Journeys and Reflection Series | Every now and then I encounter something unexpected that leaves me smiling with a desire to share. During a recent trip to Uganda, I was tasked to do a photoshoot for one of my clients. Enroute to the location, I passed a [...]
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03 March 2010
By Justin Dralaze | NAMETSI, Uganda (Reuters) – Soldiers and villagers in eastern Uganda hacked at mounds of thick mud with picks and hoes on Wednesday in a desperate bid to find more survivors from a landslide that killed at least 80 people. Waves of mud and rocks swept down the steep mountainside late on Monday [...]
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03 March 2010
Using shovels and their bare hands the residents of a poor rural part of Uganda have been scrambling to reach buried victims of a mudslide that hit the eastern Bududa district on Monday. The landslide, caused by days of unseasonal rains, killed at least 80 people and hundreds of others are missing or homeless. Al Jazeera’s Laura [...]
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02 March 2010
From Samson Ntale, for CNN | Kampala, Uganda | At least 106 bodies had been recovered Tuesday after massive landslides wiped out several villages around Mount Elgon on the Uganda-Kenya border, an army spokesman and local aid officials said. The army has joined the search for an estimated 245 people who are still missing and [...]
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02 March 2010
This is the Unplugged version of “If I Ever” from Maurice Kirya’s new album called Misubbaawa. The video was shot and edited by Solomon W. Jagwe (www.sowl.com) in a live impromptu session at the Sheraton Hotel, soon after the Galiwango, Obulamu Bw’ekisodde Film preview event. This was a live shoot with no special equipment, which [...]
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27 February 2010
Here is a treat for you Wheels fans out there. This is a collection of the new models released for 2010. I have seen some sweet rides in this collection. Hope you enjoy the eye candy because some of them don’t cheap at all. Can someone say, help Uncle Sam? | All Photos by [...]
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26 February 2010
By DANA HUGHES | ABC News | Witch Doctors, Films May Propagate Belief That Burial of Body Parts Brings Riches | Uganda is a country so beautiful that Winston Churchill once called it “the pearl of Africa.” It has world-class wildlife, fertile rolling hills and a breathtaking lakeshore. Asima Baguma describes the horror of finding her [...]
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26 February 2010
VOA’s Vincent Makori talks to Ugandan singer Angella Katatumba. | She is much more than just another Ugandan musician. Angella Katatumba is a philanthropist who, through her Angella Katatumba Development Foundation and specifically the ‘For You Gulu’ project has raised awareness and help for the people in northern Uganda. But this has not gone unnoticed. Katatumba has [...]
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25 February 2010
Nigerian President Umaru Yar’Adua arrived back home after three months in a Saudi Arabian hospital, government sources said, renewing uncertainty over the leadership of Africa’s most populous nation. There was no immediate word on the condition of the 58-year-old leader and it was unclear whether he would be fit enough to resume office. Yar’Adua’s absence brought [...]
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22 February 2010
Linda Young | AHN Editor | Kigali, Rwanda | Three suspects have been arrested in connection with a series of grenade attacks in the capital of Rwanda that left two people dead and at least 17 others injured, officials said. Targets in the simultaneous attacks on Friday were a restaurant, train station and an office builiding. [...]
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22 February 2010
A Kenyan Human Rights activists Njeri Kabeberi says the telling signs for post election violence in Uganda are already there. Speaking at a Human Rights and Peace workshop in Kampala, Kabeberi made a passionate appeal to Ugandans to learn from Kenyas mistakes and avert violence.
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22 February 2010
Katie Paul Uganda isn’t the only star of the antigay show in East Africa anymore. Today, Rwanda’s Parliament is also set to consider legislation that would for the first time make homosexuality a crime, punishable by five to 10 years in prison. The bill would also ban any activities that could be construed as “encouraging or [...]
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Sheraton Hotel Special Rate Offer Exclusively for Ugandans in the diaspora
Letter from the Editor | Ronnie Mayanja | March 2010
Bududa Aftermath | PM Nsibambi recovers in Mulago after Helicopter Crash
Womens Day | Museveni Maternal Mortality reprieve
UNDP | Transformations at Country Bakery – N.Uganda
Kampala, UGANDA | “Flying toilets” still not grounded
Ugandan Video DJs | DJ KUUZ aka Kuzaifa Bossa
Rain, terrain slow recovery efforts after Uganda landslide
Ugandan Insight | Uganda’s booming Real Estate Market!
A Taste of Wal-mart in Uganda and a Slice of Uganda in Walmart
Search goes on for Uganda landslide survivors
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