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Letter from the Editor | Ronnie Mayanja | February 2012
01 February 2012
By Ronnie Mayanja | Editor, Ugandan Diaspora Times Online | Dear Readers, A “belated Happy New year!”, It’s a new day — UNAA Times is now in transition to the Ugandan Diaspora Times. Apologies to all of our ardent readers who did not find our editorial posted on January 1st 2012. This transition will bring [...]
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Introducing The First Ugandan – Canadian Business & Social Convention ~ June 29 – July 2, 2012
07 January 2012
Press Release | Canada Welcomes Ugandans! ~ Vancouver, Canada, June 29 to July 2, 2012, will see the first Uganda-Canada Business & Social Convention take place at the Sheraton Wall Center Hotel in the heart of downtown Vancouver. The Convention, hosted by the Uganda Cultural Association of BC (UCABC) with the support of Ugandan Communities across [...]
Ugandans Making a Difference ~ White House Highlights TMS Ruge as a “Champion of Change” and Trailblazer in American Diaspora Communities
28 January 2012
THE WHITE HOUSE, Office of Communications, FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, January 27, 2012 ~ WASHINGTON, DC – On Monday, January 30th, the White House will honor TMS Ruge as one of fourteen Champions of Change who are leaders in American Diaspora communities with roots in the Horn of Africa. These leaders are helping to build stronger [...]
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Diaspora Death Announcement ~ In Loving Memory of Isaac Semuwemba Simwogerere Serunjogi
27 January 2012
Dear Community Members and friends, On behalf of Mr. Christopher Serunjogi Kawule of Kazo Kyaddondo and his family, it is with great sadness that we inform you of the sad news of the passing of his son, our brother and friend, Isaac Semuwemba Simwogerere Serunjogi. Mr. Serunjogi passed away this Wednesday, January 25, 2012 in [...]
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South Sudan to unveil pipeline plans next week: Minister Says
22 January 2012
JUBA/BEIJING (Reuters) - South Sudan will announce plans for an oil export pipeline through East Africa next week, a priority for the new nation because its crude is “no longer safe” in Sudan, a government spokesman said on Saturday. Landlocked South Sudan took about three quarters of Sudan’s roughly 500,000 barrels per day of oil production when it [...]
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TENNESSEE SCHOOL PATROL: Bradley Central welcomes Ugandan educator
22 January 2012
By David Carroll, Anchor, CLEVELAND, BRADLEY COUNTY (WRCB) ~ Around the Bradley Central High School campus, the new teacher in town is known as “Mr. Walter,” always with a welcoming smile and a gentle nature. Otim Walter Knox is principal of the Paboss Secondary School in Northern Uganda. He’s enjoying his new students, almost as [...]
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Spirit of Uganda Troupe Celebrates Life, to perform at the Carver Community Cultural Center
22 January 2012
By Jasmina Wellinghoff, For the Express-News ~ Peter Kasule can empathize with his young performers in the touring troupe Spirit of Uganda, all of whom are either orphans or at-risk youths. An orphan whose parents died of AIDS, like so many of his adult countrymen in his native Uganda, Kasule, 30, got his start as a [...]
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Al Shabaab targets Uganda, attacks unlikely to succeed Army says
22 January 2012
By William Maclean | MARRAKESH, Morocco (Reuters) - Al Shabaab would “do anything” to strike inside Uganda in retaliation for Kampala’s military role in Somalia, and good regional intelligence as well as inter-community relations would mean the militant group was unlikely to succeed, a Ugandan general said on Friday. Lieutenant General Ivan Koreta also said that plans to increase theAMISOM peace force in which Uganda participates [...]
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Debut of Nick Nola’s New Music Video “Mufunye” ( I’ve Found the One )
22 January 2012
Nick Nola recently released this Music Video, with a unique under water scene, which in itself was a first in Ugandan Music Video production. The Music video hit the Ugandan Market at the First Ugandan Diaspora Social Networking event, which took place at Serena Hotel on December 29th of 2011. The Music video was well [...]
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The First Ugandan Diaspora Social Networking Gala Held at Kampala Serena Hotel A Big Success!
02 January 2012
By Ugandan Diaspora News Team and Agencies, KAMPALA ~ In what was dubbed as the first Ugandan Diaspora Social Networking Gala held on 29th December 2011, all roads led to Kampala Serena Hotel. The program started off on time with social networking in the Conference lobby area that allowed guests to mingle, greet and visit [...]
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David Cameron, Bob Russel, Political whisky raises cash for Ugandan school
25 December 2011
Daily Gazette ~ A BOTTLE of whisky signed by Britain’s three biggest political leaders has raised more than £400 for a school’s charity fund. Pupils at Colchester County High School for Girls are trying to raise £10,000 to build a school for orphans in Uganda. After hearing about the appeal Colchester MP Bob Russell bought a bottle [...]
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Ugandan bomb victim on road to recovery, helped by Austin nonprofit, local doctors
25 December 2011
By Mary Ann Roser, AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF ~ Evelyn Apoko was 12 in July 2001 when rebel fighters in her native Uganda kidnapped her. They stole her childhood, and three years later, Apoko lost something just as precious — part of her face. A bomb from a government plane left Apoko, who now lives with a [...]
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Diaspora Nuptials: Another Bostonian, Charles Kampororo Weds In Style
20 December 2011
Charles Kampororo a Ugandan based in Boston, was the latest in the string of December diaspora nuptials that will go on till January. Mr. Kampororo wed his long time sweetheart Edwina Ahabwe at St. Luke’s Church of Uganda in Ntinda and later treated their guests at a colorful reception held at Hotel Africana’s Nile Hall. UNAA [...]
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UN General Assembly and Security Council elect Julia Sebutinde as a Member of the Court
15 December 2011
THE HAGUE, 15 December 2011. The General Assembly and the Security Council of the United Nations elected on Tuesday 13 December Ms Julia Sebutinde as a Member of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for a term of office of nine years, beginning on 6 February 2012. Read the biography of Ms Sebutinde. It is [...]
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The 4th Tabamiruka Conference kicks off at Hotel Africana, 15th – 16th December 2011
15 December 2011
By Ronnie Mayanja, Dispatch from Kampala ~ The fourth Ttabamiruka Conference kicked off at Hotel Africana with a call to creating wealth to benefit the people in Buganda. This year the conference is organised under the theme “Promoting Investment in Buganda and Uganda: Opportunities and Challenges.” Speaking during the opening the Buganda Kingdom Attorney General [...]
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‘Mother Robin’ Lim wins CNN Hero of the Year ~ Red Carpet Photo
12 December 2011
By Kyle Almond, CNN ~ Los Angeles (CNN) — Robin Lim, an American woman who has helped thousands of poor Indonesian women have a healthy pregnancy and birth, was named the 2011 CNN Hero of the Year on Sunday night. Through her Yayasan Bumi Sehat health clinics, “Mother Robin,” or “Ibu Robin” as she is [...]
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British actress Helen Mirren hails Nobel Peace Prize laureates
12 December 2011
By BJOERN H. AMLAND | AP ~ OSLO, Norway — British actress Helen Mirren hailed this year’s Nobel Peace Prize to three women as historic, but said Sunday it’s shameful that so few women have won the award since it was created in 1901. Mirren said the award marks an “extraordinary moment in the history of women,” but that it is “slightly [...]
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Nobel Prize shows women are leaders, winners say
11 December 2011
Liberian Peace activist Leymah Gbowee, (left), Human Rights activist Tawakkol Karman of Yemen, (center), and Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, (right), raise their hands together in solidarity during a press conference at the Nobel Institute in Oslo, Norway Friday Dec. 9, 2011. The trio will share the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize for their non-violent struggle for [...]
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Africa’s Fatou Bensouda is new ICC chief prosecutor
11 December 2011
By Farouk Chothia | BBC Africa ~ With the African Union (AU) having been a fierce critic of outgoing International Criminal Court chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo, it will be hoping for a better relationship with his successor, Fatou Bensouda – the first African to hold a top post at the ICC. The AU lobbied intensely [...]
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Israel frees up funds to block African migrants
11 December 2011
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel’s government approved on Sunday a $167 million plan to try to stem the flow of African migrants who cross into the country through its porous border with Egypt. Announcing the government’s intention to raise fines for employers who hire illegal workers, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said: “If necessary, we will close businesses so that the enterprise [...]
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Western Union and USAID Launch Second African Diaspora Marketplace With Small Business Workshops in Seven Cities
09 December 2011
Western Union and USAID Launch Second African Diaspora Marketplace | With Small Business Workshops in Seven Cities ~ Tour kicks off second phase of successful initiative designed to create entrepreneurial solutions to economic and social challenges.
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AFP ~ Ugandan works on space project from Mother’s backyard
06 December 2011
By Max Delany | AFP ~ Chris Nsamba says that at one time or another every successful scientist has been called a madman, and some think he is crazy about working to send the first Ugandan into space — from the backyard of his mother’s home. “People around here used to come and see and say he was mad, but [...]
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Remittances, NGOs help Uganda Shilling firm vs US Dollar
06 December 2011
By Elias Biryabarema, KAMPALA (Reuters) – The Uganda shilling firmed against the dollar for the second straight session on Tuesday, as greenback inflows from charities, offshore investors and Ugandans living overseas comfortably outweighed diminishing importer dollar demand. Traders forecast the local currency would extend its gains further in the days ahead, with an expected surge in remittances from Ugandans in the Diaspora [...]
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Letter from the Editor | Ronnie Mayanja | December 2011
01 December 2011
By Ronnie Mayanja | Editor, UNAA Times Online | Greetings folks and welcome to last calender month of the year 2011. It’s International Aids Day and ofcourse a call to all of us for more responsible living. My second month in Kampala has been quite eventful. As soon as I arrived at the end of [...]
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CARNEGIE HALL presents Ugandan Jazz Artist SOMI ~ Jamaica Performing Arts Center, Dec 1st
01 December 2011
Jazzy singer-songwriter Somi will win you over with her warm smile and quiet, soulful voice that’s infused with the African spirit. The daughter of Rwandese and Ugandan parents, this Illinois-born chanteuse writes poetic lyrics shrouded in intimacy, and laced with Swahili, Kinyarwanda, and Rutoro. Her deep, honeyed voice intones what she calls “holistic new African [...]
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A heartfelt Thank You from the Katongole Family, to the Ugandan Diaspora Community
27 November 2011
By Birungi Katongole ~ On behalf of the family of the Late Prof. Charles Katongole and Mrs. Jean Katongole siblings Kabalaya, Kaikara, Birungi, Kaliisa, Mugisa, Paula, Katusabe, Kagoro, we would like to express immense gratitude for the generosity shown during the passing away of our youngest brother Kisembo Katongole. Words can not express how grateful [...]
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New York Times ~ Uganda’s Oil Could Be Gift That Becomes a Curse
26 November 2011
By JOSH KRON, New York Times ~ Despite Ugandans’ dreams of industrialization, the country’s most lucrative export is coffee, and fish is second. Nearly 40 percent of the population survives on less than $1.25 a day, according to the World Bank. But when oil starts pumping within the next several years, the expected revenue of [...]
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VIDEO ~ Uganda’s Analog to Digital Video TV migration woes
26 November 2011
Technocrats handling the digital migration process are concerned that the process is not moving according to plan, largely due to financial constraints. Executive Director of the Uganda Communications Commission Godfrey Mutabazi is worried that Uganda may fail to beat the 2015 deadline for switching off from analogue TV broadcasting to digital because of delay by [...]
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Kampala Property Market presentation by Judy R. Kyanda, MD, Knight Frank
23 November 2011
Here is a presentation by the MD for Knight Frank at the recent East Africa Real Estate Investment-2011 Conference. Focus on East Africa, in conjunction with its strategic partners, is organising the East Africa Real Estate Investment-2011 (the conference). The conference will be held on 22 – 23 November 2011 in Kampala, Uganda and is supported [...]
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Olivia and Paul Kim’s Story Featured in Sunday Vision ~ He Was Taken Too Soon
21 November 2011
By Elizabeth Agiro, SUNDA VISION, UGANDA ~ It is every girl’s dream to meet the man of her dreams and to be swept off her feet. Sometimes, the romance is short lived as for Olivia Kim. Her husband, Paul, was suddenly taken ill and died in May this year. She told Elizabeth Agiro about how she [...]
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Xenson rolls out his Futuristic Past Fashion Show In Style!
20 November 2011
By Ronnie Mayanja, Dispatch from Kampala, UNAA Times Online ~ If you asked me what I enjoy in my free time, fashion and design will always feature right up there. Some might even ask, how can a guy enjoy fashion and design?, but I do, and will go to great lengths to attend such events. I’ve [...]
Photos ~ ‘Kampala City Yange’ Campaign Launched!
20 November 2011
By Ronnie Mayanja, Dispatch from Kampala, UNAA Times Online ~ A campaign dubbed ‘Kampala City Yange’ was launched on 11.11.11 at 11am at Kampala Capital City Authority grounds by a group of young city activists advocating for keeping Kampala Clean through a series of monthly social themes of creating a more vibrant city that all [...]
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Veterans Day Lessons: The Sheer Tragedy That Is War
14 November 2011
By Doug Bandow, Contributor ~ FORBES ~ Another Veterans Day has passed. Tragically, Washington creates more veterans every day. American politicians are constantly going to war for no good reason. Special Forces to Uganda. What vital U.S. interest is threatened there? Bombing Libya. Why should Washington bail out the Europeans yet again? Nation-building in Afghanistan. [...]
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Uganda’s first electric car proves the potential of Africa’s universities
14 November 2011
Posted by Richard M Kavuma, The Guardian ~ In an age of technological marvels, it may not be earth-stopping news that young engineers at Uganda’s Makerere University have made an electric car. But, as a university professor reminded me, this is big news for Uganda. Last week, the College of Engineering Design, Art and Technology at Makerere conducted [...]
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Mount Nyamulagira ~ Congo tourism promotes erupting volcano
14 November 2011
(AP) KINSHASA, Congo – A national park in Congo best known for its endangered mountain gorillas is now inviting tourists to go on overnight treks to see a volcano spurting fountains of lava nearly 1,000 feet into the air. Mount Nyamulagira began erupting on Nov. 6 and could continue to do so for days, or [...]
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Kampala IPCC Meeting ~ Regions must brace for weather extremes: UN climate panel
14 November 2011
By Marlowe Hood | AFP ~ Southern Europe will be gripped by fierce heatwaves, drought in North Africa will be more common, and small island states face ruinous storm surges from rising seas, according to a report by UN climate scientists. The assessment is the most comprehensive probe yet by the 194-nation Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) into the impact of [...]
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