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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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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 [...]
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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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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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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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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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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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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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 [...]
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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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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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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09 November 2011
By Ronnie Mayanja, UNAA Times, Dispatch from Kampala ~ On Saturday November 4th, Kampala city came to a complete stand still when American based business mogul and entrepreneur Mr. Flex Kabuye Kawooya introduced his fiancee Princess Mable Nakamaanya in a colorful ceremony held at Najjanankumbi in Kampala. Many of Kampala’s socialites that included General Katumba [...]
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06 November 2011
Washington Post ~ PARIS — Once among the world’s most feared masterminds of terror, the man known as Carlos the Jackal is now a graying convict who has been behind bars for 17 years. On Monday, he goes on trial for four deadly attacks that occurred nearly three decades ago, and the verdict could determine [...]
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06 November 2011
By Dominique Debucquoy-Dodley, New York (CNN) – Kenya’s Geoffrey Mutai set a course record in the ING New York Marathon on Sunday, cutting nearly three minutes from a previous best time that had stood for a decade. Mutai finished in 2 hours, 5 minutes and 6 seconds, according to the official website for the race, breaking [...]
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03 November 2011
U.S Department of State ~ Green Card Lottery 2013 ~ Important Notice: DV 2013 Program - The online registration period for the 2013 Diversity Visa Program (DV-2013) began on Tuesday, October 4, 2011, at noon, Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) (GMT-4), and will conclude on Saturday, November 5, 2011, at noon, Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) (GMT-4). See the Diversity [...]
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30 October 2011
(CNN) – A South Sudan rebel group warned the United Nations and residents to leave a remote border state within three days or risk coming under fire as it launches an attack on the local government. The South Sudan Liberation Army said Saturday it was headed to Warrap state after an earlier attack on Mayom town [...]
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29 October 2011
“Straight Talk Africa” on October 26, 2011 – VOA’s “Straight Talk Africa” guest, Betty Makoni of Girl Child Network Worldwide joined host Shaka Ssali from the London studios to discus how being rape at the age of six in Zimbabwe is why she works closely with girls and children in rural areas, including victims of [...]
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29 October 2011
“Straight Talk Africa” on October 26, 2011 – VOA’s “Straight Talk Africa” studio guest, Derreck Kayongo, Social Entrepreneur of the Global Soap Project discuss how his initiative to recover and recycle soap from American hotel and distribute in African communities has landed recognition from an American cable news networks.
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29 October 2011
“Straight Talk Africa” on October 26, 2011 – VOA’s “Straight Talk Africa” studio guest, Ronnie Mayanja, Editor of UNAA Times Online Newspaper discusses how he uses his blog newspaper to connect with other Ugandans throughout the diaspora to highlight special accomplishment of individuals through public service.
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29 October 2011
By Ronnie Mayanja ~ A couple of weeks ago Ugandans commemorated their 49th independence anniversary in the US, various community local chapters celebrated this independence day with festivities and meetings of their own. In Boston a number of events were held to mark this memorable day. First came the independence day dance organised by Tuli Mukintu and DJ [...]
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28 October 2011
By Associated Press, Washington Post ~ NAIROBI, Kenya — While putting few U.S. troops at risk, the United States is playing a growing role in Africa’s military battles, using special forces advisers, drones and tens of millions of dollars in military aid to combat a growing and multifaceted security threat. Once again, the focus is [...]
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25 October 2011
By MICHELE KELEMEN ~ Human rights groups don’t usually cheer military forays. But they have offered loud applause for the Obama administration’s decision to send 100 military advisers to several countries in Africa to help those nations fight one of the continent’s most notorious rebel groups, the Lord’s Resistance Army. The Lord’s Resistance Army, or [...]
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25 October 2011
By Alexis Okeowo | The New Yorker ~ When President Obama announced his plan a week and a half ago tosend a hundred United States troops to central Africa to aid in the search for Lord’s Resistance Army rebels, the American public was, predictably, a little confused, and Rush Limbaugh was, predictably, a little off his rocker. “Uganda” soon became a trending topic on Twitter, [...]
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25 October 2011
By Jim Mannion ~ US special forces will be deployed with front-line units as advisors to central African militaries hunting down the leaders of Uganda’s Lord’s Resistance Army, a senior US official said Tuesday. Alexander Vershbow, a top Pentagon official, assured lawmakers that the deployment would likely last no more than “months” and was limited to aiding regional [...]
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24 October 2011
Flying to Uganda this December ~ For those of you planning on travelling to Uganda to attend the Ugandan Diaspora Social Networking Event on December 29th, at the Kampala Serena Hotel, here are the CODES to use for a SPECIAL EVENT DISCOUNT. Call this Number and give them the codes. 1-800-445-2733 From 01DEC to 07DEC $1499.32 [...]
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24 October 2011
By JOSH KRON, NAIROBI, Kenya — While Libya’s former rebels and many Western nations welcomed the end of the country’s long and brutal dictatorship, many sub-Saharan Africans are mourning the death of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, celebrated as much for his largesse as for his willingness to stand up to the West. To them, his violent death [...]
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24 October 2011
Joseph Kony, leader of the rebel group the Lord?s Resistance Army that has been fighting a war against the Ugandan government for the past twenty years, makes a rare statement to the media during peace talks on August 1, 2006 on the Congo-Sudan border. Editor’s Note: Daniel R. DePetris is an MA Candidate at the Maxwell [...]
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24 October 2011
By Moni Basu, (CNN) – What does a 22-year-old see when she looks at herself in the mirror? Evelyn Apoko sees a face marred by war, one that is jarring to others. Even she can’t stand to look sometimes. Doctors reconstructed her jaw, removed scars and balanced her lips. In the coming days, she will get a [...]
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24 October 2011
By Paul Cruickshank, CNN Terrorism Analyst ~ The mysterious visitor stands in a patch of scrubland in Somalia, surrounded by Islamic militants wielding AK-47s. His face is covered by a white-and-red headscarf; he is slim and seems young. But there is something puzzling about him: His skin is fair, and when he speaks in an [...]
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24 October 2011
By Jack Maddox, (CNN) – Twelve people were injured when someone either placed or threw a grenade into a Nairobi night club early Monday morning, Kenyan police said. Police have not linked the attack to any particular group, but it comes a day after the U.S. Embassy in Kenya warned it had credible information of an [...]
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20 October 2011
By SUSANNA KIM | ABC News ~ Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi’s war chest might have been large enough at one point to support fighting against rebel forces, but how much Libya’s Transitional National Council can extract after Gadhafi’s reported death remains to be seen. Gadhafi and his family had an estimated $33 billion and $60 billion in unaccounted money around the [...]
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20 October 2011
By JOEL SIEGEL | ABC News ~ He was one of the world’s most ruthless heads of state. He also was one of the most outlandish. Rarely has the leader of such a small nation played such a large role on the international stage. Moammar Gadhafi, who had weathered assassination attempts, U.S. air strikes, and years [...]
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20 October 2011
By Mahmood Mamdani ~ Al Jazeera ~ ”Kampala ‘mute’ as Gaddafi falls,” is how the opposition paper summed up the mood of this capital the morning after.Whether they mourn or celebrate, an unmistakable sense of trauma marks the African response to the fall of Gaddafi. Both in the longevity of his rule and in his style [...]
16 October 2011
By David McKenzie, Nairobi (CNN) – Kenyan troops are pursuing suspected Islamic militants from Al-Shabaab across the border into Somalia, Kenyan government spokesman Alfred Mutua told CNN Sunday. The move marks a dramatic shift in security tactics for the east African powerhouse, which is evoking the United Nations charter allowing military action in self-defense against its largely [...]
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16 October 2011
By Ashley Killough, Washington (CNN) – Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona on Sunday questioned the president’s recent order to send American troops to central Africa, saying the move could put the United States on a slippery slope. “I worry about, with the best of intentions, that we somehow get engaged in a commitment that we can’t [...]
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