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E-onsoftware Showcase: Afghan Flyover – Solomon Jagwe

Fact File Name Solomon Jagwe Product Vue 5 Infinite, 3DSMax, ZBrush, MotionBuilder, Photoshop “A 12 million polygons landscape – Vue Infinite was perfect for that challenge!”

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Solomon Jagwe is a 32 year old Artist from Uganda. He came to the US In 1996 to further his art studies, and became a permanent resident in 1999. Solomon used Vue Infinite to create a highly detailed landscape for a military flyover animation.
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NUWA Nnyanzi, probably Uganda’s finest batik painter, is in Europe and the US to promote the country’s art.

Nnyanzi has visited different places and held exhibitions, workshops and lectures. In St Lucien, Normandie, northern France, Nnyanzi presented 30 original batik paintings, 20 lithographs, 11 serigraphs, 20 batiks by Dick Muliika and 10 oils and lithographs by the late Vincent Massudy. He also presented crafts and jewellery.

Nnyanzi also conducted a batik workshop at Gems of Africa Fine Art & Sculpture Gallery (GOA) and showcased his work in Portland. He also plans to introduce Ugandan art to Woodcuts Gallery & Framing in the US and to have an exchange programme between his studio and American art students.

To read more about Nuwa Nnyanzi go to http://uganda.africancolours.net/content/14483

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_{Art saved my life, says Ugandan trophy designer for BBC entrepreneur competition}
 

The award-winning Ugandan designer, Peter Oloya, has been chosen by BBC Swahili to design and cast the 23 May 2008 winning trophies for its young entrepreneur competition. Faidika na BBC (Prosper with the BBC) is looking for a 16 to 24 year-old who has a promising business idea that would have a positive impact on their community.  The prize is US $5,000. 
Peter will create trophies to be awarded at the regional heats in Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda and at the final award ceremony in Kampala in late June.  Peter submitted his designs through the Ruwenzori Sculpture Foundation that enables cultural and educational exchanges between artists in Africa and the UK.  “I am delighted BBC World Service, a broadcaster I truly respect for the quality of their work, has selected me to play a unique role in this competition.  It is like a dream come true. 

 Read more about Peter Olaya at http://uganda.africancolours.net/content/16618

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ONE of President Yoweri Museveni’s first ministers, Ateker Ejalu, has died. Ejalu, 69, died of meningitis at Nairobi Hospital where he had been admitted for a month. He first served as a minister of state for special duties in 1986.

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If I were in charge of the world, I would change it and nothing would stop me

By Solomon W. Jagwe

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Gordon Begumisa

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TEMPEST  TOSSED 

 Tempest tossed, I sail home
The tide I ride, filled with foam
Closer and closer to the shore
My sea beaten boat is drawn

Creaks sound loud, leaks looking wide
Gashes adorn the bow
Sails spluttered with streaks and tears
Left in the wake of unmerciful gales

Darkness engulfs, blanketing and unyielding
Peer as I might, nothingness is all I see
Groping for a foothold, sliding and tittering
Torn and shredded, my hands cannot hold

Pain, sharp jabs of shock!
My eyelids strive to keep out
Light gaining strength – warmth all around
Hope given wings – soaring and renewed

A lighthouse – graces my view
Eyes slowly opening and pain subsiding
Peace so becoming, fears assuaged
Hunger dispelled, courage restored!

Tempest tossed, my boat is no more
This tide I ride is filled with pride
Closer and closer to the lighthouse
My joy laden heart, finds Rest.

A poem by Solomon. W. Jagwe

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Written by EDRIS KISAMBIRA     
 
KAMPALA, UGANDA – Tullow Oil has made what it has called potentially the largest find in an eight-well drilling campaign in the Butiaba area of the Lake Albert rift basin. 

With many prospects still to drill in the Butiaba area and across the basin on shore and offshore, a company statement quoted Aidan Heavey, Tullow’s chief executive officer saying the prospector is now certain that the commercial threshold for development has been exceeded.

Heavey said Tullow has assigned a dedicated team to deliver a commercial development plan for the overall basin.

In April 2008, Tullow commenced what it termed as a major drilling campaign in the Butiaba area targeting an overall reserve potential in excess of a billion barrels.

To read the rest of this article visit http://www.busiweek.com
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In loving memory of our fellow Ghanians

Omara Robert  (House Prefect)
Gordon Mulinzi (House Prefect)
Kawesi  (House Prefect)

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Paul Ndiho Reports on Uganda’s LRA Chief- Joseph Kony
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Paul Ndiho is an internationally – respected television and radio journalist who has earned a reputation for his path breaking reporting of humanitarian crises and coverage of conflict zones. A native of Uganda, Paul has had a multi-faceted broadcasting career so far, working in both radio and television, in Africa and the United States including PBS’s The News Hour with Jim Lehrer, Voice of America TV, Fairfax Public access, WETA FM, and various Ugandan television and radio stations. Prior to working in the United States Mr. Ndiho covered the war zones in East and Central Africa. His breaking coverage of the deadly ethnic warfare between the Hema and Lenda militias in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo helped galvanize the international community to respond to end the bloodshed. Mr. Ndiho has produced television series on the plight of child soldiers in Eastern Congo and the humanitarian crises in both northern Uganda and Central Africa. Mr. Ndiho currently works for the Voice of America as a television news producer/ Video Journalist and owns a media production and image consulting company based in Alexandria , Virginia, USA.

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Yohanes Gessesse, AfricaNews reporter in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
The Chinese government has approved funding of around $1.5 billion for Uganda’s vast trade zone plan near Lake Victoria. The plans are for a free trade zone of 200 square miles, which would have a major impact on country’s economy.
Chinese money would fund a new port and logistics centre, an airport, roads and telecoms infrastructure, facilities for manufacturing companies and financial services, an agriculture training centre and residential and entertainment areas.

Paradise Investment Company of the Chinese had signed an agreement last month with Ugandan partner Kagera Eco-cities, giving it a majority share in the management of the zone. Paradise Investment has drawn up a five-year plan to develop the area and around 40 Chinese companies are interested in setting up there. To read more about this story go to
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Yasiin Mugerwa, Risdel Kasasira & Sheila Naturinda

Addressing a press conference at Parliament yesterday, MP Mr Reagan Okumu (Aswa, FDC) said, “We have reliable information that the UPDF attacked empty camps; the LRA had left the area as the rebels had already been alerted two days before the operation.”

Citing unnamed sources, the MP added, “They could have killed innocent civilians who were abducted because the government failed to protect them. The most unfortunate thing is the indiscriminate bombardment which is going on in Congo.”

Pushed to explain the veracity of his information, Mr Okumu said, “I am the shadow minister for foreign affairs and I have sources within the UPDF, South Sudan, and Congo and in many other countries. Whoever wants to challenge this information should come out but I once again assure you that UPDF bombarded empty camps.”

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Photo: Stuart Price/IRIN

Soldiers of the Ugandan Army in the north of the country (file photo). Activists warn the offensive will have repercussions

KAMPALA, 15 December 2008 (IRIN) – Peace activists in northern Uganda have criticised a weekend air and ground assault by the armed forces of Uganda, Southern Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) against several Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) camps in north-eastern DRC.

The activists warned the operation could derail a two-year peace process that had brought “some normalcy” to northern Uganda.

“It is unfortunate; life will be lost and that is not of any benefit to humanity,” Bishop John Baptist Odama, the Catholic Archbishop of Gulu, said. “The state we had reached was merely to agree and iron out the ICC [International Criminal Court] indictments. We thought that they will wait and then we find a better way forward.”

Nobert Mao, Gulu district council chairman and also spearheading attempts to find a peaceful solution to the conflict, expressed shock at the operation and said leaders in northern Uganda felt betrayed.

To read the rest of this story go to http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=81960

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Hi every one,

Just when I thought that names had stopped coming through, I have just been reminded of Richard Ssimbwa (Africa House). He died some time last year. May His Saul Rest in Peace.

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Reporting by Ronnie Mayanja

Coverage of Africa by the major Networks: Focus, ABC, NBC, CBS and CNN. Africa Series Part I

Click on the Videos Category at the top to watch Coverage of Africa parts II and III

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Reporting by Ronnie Mayanja

Coverage of Africa by the major Networks: Focus, ABC, NBC, CBS and CNN

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Reporting by Ronnie Mayanja

Coverage of Africa by the major Networks: Focus, ABC, NBC, CBS and CNN

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Film Synopsis

For two decades, the Acholi people of Northern Uganda have been caught in a civil war between a rebel group whose main objective is inhumane terror and a government whose military response has often increased misery and suffering. Over one and a half million people have been displaced into camps and over 25,000 children have been abducted to be used as soldiers and sex slaves.

And yet through it all, every day across Acholi-land something remarkable happens. Against a backdrop of dismal statistics, miniscule opportunity and unpredictable terror, in a part of Uganda forgotten by the world, children who have never known peace, face the day as if to live this way is normal, as if they still believe in the future. These children are the embodiment of resilience and hope. This film is the story of Uganda, her stolen children, and the fight to be free.

Trailer Link: http://www.ugandarising.com/trailers.html

A movie about the suffering of the Northern People of Uganda

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It seems like months away, but before you know it, the UNAA  2009, Chicago convention will be here.

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Mardder Ranks is a budding Regga artist based in Boston, Massachussets. He is one of the many young and inspired Ugandan musicians who are determined to make headway in the music industry.

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Mardder Ranks

This was Mardder Ranks first Music Video that hit the web. The single is entitled “Prisoner”

Mardder Ranks is a budding Regga artist based in Boston, Massachussets. He is one of the many young and inspired Ugandan musicians who are determined to make headway in the music industry.

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We are finally getting our bearings. looking actively for land so we can drop anchor

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