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28 March 2012
New York Times – By JOSH KRON KAMPALA, Uganda — The African Union announced Friday that it would launch a new regional military operation against the Lord’s Resistance Army, the vicious Ugandan rebel group that has been terrorizing parts of central Africa for more than 20 years. The operation, which aims to bring together 5,000 [...]
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28 March 2012
Press release - The Western Union Company (NYSE: WU) and MTN Group (JSE: MTN) today announced the launch of a mobile money transfer service in Uganda, allowing MTN customers to send and receive money across borders using just their mobile phones for the first time. The service, announced today at a press conference in Kampala, [...]
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23 March 2012
New York Times – By JOSH KRON KAMPALA, Uganda — In its own way, Uganda is trying to claim its moment in an unfortunate spotlight. A video posted online this month, “Kony 2012,” which is trying to call attention to the brutality of the Ugandan rebel leader Joseph Kony and his penchant for kidnapping and [...]
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23 March 2012
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will nominate Dartmouth College President Jim Yong Kim to head the World Bank, a surprise pick for the international financial institution’s top job, senior administration officials said. The Korean-born Kim is a physician by training and a prominent figure in global health and development circles. Officials believe his experience will [...]
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08 March 2012
By HLNtv.com Staff ~ Rarely does a 27-minute documentary on an alleged Ugandan war criminal became a “viral hit.” The average YouTube attention span typically lasts only long enough to see the cat finally swat away the balloon. Well, that changed when Jason Russel’s film took over the Internet Wednesday. With over seven million YouTube views [...]
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04 March 2012
Uganda Wildlife Authority acting executive director Dr. Andrew Seguya displays some the 162 kilograms of ivory and other animal products impounded while being smuggled, in the capital Kampala. Officials in Uganda say seized nearly 360 pounds (162 kilograms) of ivory and other animal parts and products that were being smuggled in and out of the [...]
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04 March 2012
Assistant producer Katheryne Fuller of the U.S. television show “The Amazing Race” is assisted by Brad Nathanson (L), a private South African investigator, and her father Steward Fuller (R), as she departs the courthouse after pleading guilty of cocaine usage in the Ugandan capital of Kampala, March 1, 2012. “The Amazing Race” television producer Jeff [...]
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04 March 2012
Photographer Anthony Karen visited the Somali capital to document life in the region. “I’m drawn to places that most aren’t willing to go,” he says. Photojournalist Karen’s Somalia Photo Essay Anthony Karen is a photojournalist based in New York. His passion for photography began in Haiti, where he documented the various Vodou rituals and [...]
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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