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08 June 2011
Don’t Miss the Spring Party 2011!! ~ Julian Kanyomozi will be performing at the American Legion, Nonantum Post 440 ~ 295 Carlifornia St, Newton, MA 02458. Music will be provided by Dj Tonny and BaSe Entertainment. For tickets Call 857 231 1935 and 617 959 7168. Come out and enjoy some Ugandan Music flavor from [...]
06 June 2011
In what was a full house on Saturday June 4th, several people including the family and friends of the late Herbert Lwanyagga gathered at St. Peters Church Of Uganda in Waltham for a Memorial service led by Rev. Christine Nakyeyune and Rev. Stephen Kasirye. The service was meant to allow the Ugandan Boston community bid [...]
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04 June 2011
Dear brothers and sisters, On behalf of the organizing committee of the 2011 Ugandan Martyrs’ Day celebration, I wish to greet you all. Many of you have had an opportunity to participate in the celebration that marks the ROOTS OF OUR CHRISTIAN FAITH in Uganda; the feast of the Ugandan Martyrs here in the United [...]
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04 June 2011
Uganda have beaten Guinea Bissau 2-0 in Kampala on Saturday to edge closer to qualifying for the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations finals. A goal in each half was enough to ensure the Cranes will stay top of Group J with two matches remaining. Godfrey Walusimbi was on target with the opener and then Egypt-based [...]
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02 June 2011
By Laurie Monsebraaten, Toronto Star | At 21, Lilliane Namukasa left Uganda to make a new life in Canada as a live-in caregiver for two small children. But after working full-time for two years, she was paid just $2,100 by her Brampton employer and then fired without cause, forcing her into a homeless shelter, Namukasa [...]
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01 June 2011
KAMPALA ~ Request for Expression of Interest ~ The Government of the Republic of Uganda through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has received Financing from the World Bank towards the cost of Strengthening Capacity for Diaspora Engagement Project and it intends to apply part of the proceeds to payments for the provisions of Consultancy Services [...]
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01 June 2011
KAMPALA ~ Request for Expression of Interest ~ The Government of the Republic of Uganda through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has received Financing from the World Bank towards the cost of Strengthening Capacity for Diaspora Engagement Project and it intends to apply part of the proceeds to payments for the provisions of Consultancy Services [...]
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01 June 2011
KAMPALA ~ Request for Expression of Interest ~ The Government of the Republic of Uganda through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has received Financing from the World Bank towards the cost of Strengthening Capacity for Diaspora Engagement Project and it intends to apply part of the proceeds to payments for the provisions of Consultancy Services [...]
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01 June 2011
By Nicholas Bariyo ~ KAMPALA Uganda -(Dow Jones)- Uganda’s May annual headline inflation accelerated to 16%, from 14.1% in April, the highest levels in over a decade, propelled by higher food and fuel prices, the state-run Uganda Bureau of Statistics said Tuesday. The statistics body said that the country’s food crop inflation registered an annual [...]
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01 June 2011
RENGEN, (AFP) – Simon Peter Lotia is not only more than twice the age and double the height of his fellow pupils at Rengen primary school in northeast Uganda, but he towers over most of his teachers as well. For many of the years when he should have been in school, Lotia, 23, was launching [...]
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31 May 2011
Herbert Lwanyagga 46, died on the spot when his Discovery Land Rover lost control on Route 128/Interstate I-95 in Burlington, Massachusetts. According to State Police the accident occurred at about 1:43am. The accident was also listed as a single car crash in the northbound lane of I-95 between exits 33A and 33B. Speed was the [...]
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30 May 2011
The Basoga community living in North America and Uganda converged on Boston during the Memorial Day weekend [May 26th to May 29th 2011] for their annual convention. The three day event was also attended by the newly elected speaker of Uganda Parliament Hon. Rebecca Kadaga who also presented the keynote speech. Basoga Twegaite is an [...]
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30 May 2011
Saturday May 28th 2011, was a colorful evening as Mr. Pius Bugembe, the Chairman of the Ugandan American Association of Greater New York, wed his long time girlfriend and sweetheart Hedwig Tushabe at the Holy Rosary Catholic Parish in the Bronx, New York. The wedding was attended by a host of dignitaries that included the [...]
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30 May 2011
By ESTHER NAKKAZI | Peter Anguyo, a casual labourer for a local company, Excel Construction Company, is working at Bulisa Health Centre IV. Smiling amidst the heat, he ferries bricks to the nurses’ block about to be roofed. He now earns more than twice as much what he earned on other sites, Sh20,000 ($0.9) from [...]
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28 May 2011
By Olivia Kim, UK | August 7th ~ A memorial Letter ~ “THREE LONG MONTHS!” It is three long months today since you’ve been gone. Three months ago (May 7th), Paul Kim; our friend, son, brother, uncle, my loving husband, and daddy to our daughter, Kisha, went to be with the LORD. As each day [...]
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28 May 2011
By Ronnie Mayanja ~ For his 4th term in Office, President Museveni has named a New Cabinet to steer Uganda for the next 5 years. Here is a list of both New and Old faces including professionals that will form perhaps the largest cabinet on the African continent.[Over 76 Ministers were appointed in total, 29 [...]
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28 May 2011
In the documentary, Ugandan women tricked into domestic slavery in Iraq, the BBC’s Anna Cavell investigates how a group of 147 Ugandan women were lured into Iraq. The women were told they would get decent jobs with the U.S. military. Instead, they found themselves working as slaves, subject to violence and even rape. Eventually, they [...]
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28 May 2011
Microsoft International has agreed to establish the 2nd Innovations Center in the Region and 4th in Africa atMakerere University’s College of Computing and Information Sciences. The Innovations Center will be used by Makerere University and Uganda as whole to develop appropriate innovations relevant to the needs of our society. Microsoft will provide technical expertise and [...]
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27 May 2011
KAMPALA (AFP) – Ugandan police Friday warned of an increased threat of attacks by Somali Islamists in the country, claiming new intelligence showed that members of the Al-Shebab group may have crossed into Uganda. “There is information to the effect that some of them are possibly already in country and that more want to infiltrate,” [...]
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27 May 2011
KAMPALA, (IRIN) – A confirmed case of the deadly Ebola virus in eastern Uganda three weeks ago has been quickly contained, leading health experts in the country to believe the virus has not spread. “According to the present report, it seems the virus didn’t pass to anybody,” said Issa Makumba, head of epidemiology and surveillance [...]
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25 May 2011
SELINSGROVE — At the urging of a Messiah College student, three of the Selinsgrove-area residents injured in the July terrorist attack in Uganda will return to that African country next month. “I kept encouraging them to go back,” said Kris Sledge, who suffered eye, ear and leg injuries July 11 when a bomb exploded in a [...]
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24 May 2011
Barbara Birungi | South Africa Dispatch | Coming home to (Uganda) used to be a very exciting feeling, as they say “East or West home is best” As we drove from Entebbe airport, I was looking for the sign post ” Welcome to Kampala City”, but there was none. My first welcome experience, when I [...]
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24 May 2011
Africa Fashion Week ~ Gloria Wavamunno was created under the creative direction of Gloria Wavamunno, a Ugandan based designer. The designer draws her inspiration from all that inspires her globally through culture, music and colors. Showcase Date: Thursday, July 14, 2011 LGN ~ 5 Mins with designer Gloria Wavamunno… BY LA GENEVE NORTH | GNN [...]
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24 May 2011
The Associated Press | A coalition of nearly 40 human rights groups is calling on the U.S. to step up its efforts against a brutal Ugandan-led rebel group that has intensified attacks in central Africa, especially Congo’s volatile northeast. In a statement late Monday, the groups including Human Rights Watch said a special envoy should [...]
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24 May 2011
By Ian Mansfield ~ Foris Telecom, a mobile broadband Internet and applications service provider, has successfully launched its WiMAX network in Mozambique and Kampala, Uganda. The network, supplied by Alvarion, operating in the 2.5 GHz frequency range, is the first Wimax deployment in Uganda and Mozambique. “Alvarion’s best-of-breed solution allows us to meet the specific [...]
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20 May 2011
The Secretary of State’s Office of Global Partnerships, in collaboration with the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Migration Policy Institute (MPI), organized an action-oriented Global Diaspora Forum held at the State Department. The goal was to: 1. Recognize and celebrate the contribution of diaspora communities to America’s relationship with their countries of [...]
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20 May 2011
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State ~ Loy Henderson Auditorium, Washington, DC Remarks at the Opening of the Secretary’s Global Diaspora Forum “Well, this is so exciting for me to be up here looking out at all of you, to walk into this room where I often address groups, and to see it packed with [...]
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19 May 2011
BOULDER – Walking back on the University of Colorado campus after being gone for three years was a culture shock that 23-year-old Andrea Pauline did not anticipate. The sight of Ray-Ban sunglasses and skinny jeans actually caught her off-guard. “Things that I haven’t cared about in the last three years are coming back. And it’s [...]
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19 May 2011
By JOSH KRON and JEFFREY GETTLEMAN | KAMPALA, Uganda — The British police have warned two outspoken Rwandan dissidents living in London that their lives are in danger because the Rwandan government may be plotting to kill them, according to British officials and documents. In hand-delivered letters dated May 12, the Metropolitan Police Service warned [...]
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19 May 2011
Washington Post | KAMPALA, Uganda — Ugandan police on Thursday stopped the country’s top opposition leader from participating in what authorities said could be a destructive protest march. Kizza Besigye said that shortly after he left his home he was stopped by police, who gave him a choice between “preventive arrest” and jail or returning [...]
19 May 2011
President Yoweri Museveni was sworn in for the fourth official term. Museveni took the oath before thousands of Ugandans joined by a dozen of African heads of state at Kololo grounds in the capital Kampala.
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18 May 2011
By John Platt | Red colobus monkeys in Uganda’s Kibale National Park are being hunted to extinction—by chimpanzees. According to a study published May 9 in the American Journal of Primatology, this is the first documented case of a nonhuman primate significantly overhunting another primate species. (The taxonomy of Ugandan red colobus monkeys is in [...]
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16 May 2011
President Goodluck Jonathan has expressed shock over the reported death of a Ugandan as a result of protests during the swearing-in of President Yoweri Museveni. Jonathan, in a statement by his Senior Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr. Ima Niboro, however, explained that the death did not occur where the President was and, contrary [...]
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16 May 2011
By Ronnie Mayanja | USA | The newly elected Gwanga Mujje executive convened a general meeting at the Hilton Garden Inn in Waltham, Sunday 15th May to discuss ways and means of how to grow the newly instituted Gwanga Mujje Boston Chapter. A New website was unveiled and the Chair started off by informing members [...]
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16 May 2011
CNN ~ Inside Africa Meet: Meet Musician Maurice Kirya as he brings some Ugandan soul to the Big Apple. Maurice Kirya is Radio France International’s “Best New African Artist” award winner. www.mauricekirya.com
16 May 2011
(CNN) — Olympic marathon gold medalist Samuel Wanjiru died early Monday from injuries sustained after jumping from the balcony of his Nyahururu home in central Kenya, a senior police official said. Wanjiru jumped from the second-floor of his home late Sunday after his wife caught him in the company of another woman, said Jasper Ompati, [...]
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