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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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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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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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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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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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12 November 2011
By TIM BAINES – Ottawa Sun ~ It looks like James Harris’ wrestling career is over. And it wasn’t his age, 61, that caught up with him. After terrorizing opponents for many years as Kamala The Ugandan Giant, Harris had a foot amputated this week, related to diabetes and other medical issues. In his prime, Kamala was a main-eventer, [...]
09 November 2011
By Uncle Isaac Sebakijje ~ Dear friends, family, co-workers, We want to express our deepest gratitude to all of you who made this sad occasion a little more bearable. Your generous gifts of time, money, food, flowers and emotional support at our time of great need was immensely appreciated. We also appreciate outpouring messages of condolences [...]
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06 November 2011
By Jocelyn Edwards, Special to the Star ~ Lushi Rashid throws her arm up in the air, stretches out on the yellow sheets and ululates in pain. “Jiijiijiiijiii,” she cries as the contractions grow stronger, emitting the high-pitched trilling noise that South Sudanese women make to show emotion. Sitting on a stool at Rashid’s bedside, midwife [...]
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02 November 2011
GEORGE TOWN: A 56-year-old Ugandan woman was ordered by the High Court here to enter her defence to a drug-trafficking charge after the prosecution succeeded in establishing a prima facie case against her. Nabweteme Hadija is alleged to have smuggled in 2,329gms of methamphetamine or syabu worth RM750,000 into the country, an offence tantamount to [...]
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30 October 2011
US UPDATE: Funeral Service & Fundraising for Kisembo “Semo” Katso” Katongole will be this SATURDAY NOVEMBER 5TH at St. Peter’s Church Of Uganda, 750 Main St., Waltham, MA. at 2pm. Dear friends, It is amazing to see how well loved Semo was, It is also great to see how everyone has pitched in to get [...]
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28 October 2011
KAMPALA, (IRIN) – The shortage of health workers in Uganda is a “crisis”, says the Minister of Health, and activists say expectant mothers are bearing the brunt of the country’s staffing deficiency. Just 56 percent of Uganda’s available health positions are filled. Parliament’s recent refusal to reallocate part of the country’s budget to hire more [...]
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25 October 2011
Dear Gwanga Mujje-DC members and friends, Following the announcement of the sadden death of our founding member and friend, James Kabonge (57), who passed away yesterday, October 24, 2011, his family wishes to inform you that there will be a gathering (okukuma olumbe) this Friday, October 28, 2011 at their home (21202 Sparrow Court, Germantown, MD. 20876). They will receive friends, mourners and sympathizers starting at 6:00 [...]
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25 October 2011
Fellow Ugandans and Friends, Following the earlier announcements of the sadden death of our friend and founder member of Ggwanga Mujje-DC, James Kabonge (RIP), the family wishes to inform you of the arrangements and details for the wake-keeping (okukuma olumbe) and the funeral which will take place this Saturday, October 29, 2011in Germantown, Maryland. Please note the change of venue for the gathering. We [...]
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24 October 2011
By Jennifer Delgado, TribLocal reporter ~ A 26-year-old Chicago man will appear in Skokie court Oct. 28 after he attempted to rob a hotel with a loaded handgun and later stole cash from another hotel using the weapon, Des Plaines authorities said. Musanje James Ntulume, of the 5000 block of North Elston Avenue, allegedly pointed [...]
16 October 2011
By Chris Rogers, BBC News, Kampala ~ The villages and farming communities that surround Uganda’s capital, Kampala, are gripped by fear. Schoolchildren are closely watched by teachers and parents as they make their way home from school. In playgrounds and on the roadside are posters warning of the danger of abduction by witch doctors for the [...]
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15 October 2011
By Ramond Baguma ~ Prince John Barigye of Ankore is dead. According to sources, Barigye, 70, died at 6:00pm at the Agha Khan Hospital in Nairobi, Kenya where he had been admitted. Details of the cause of his death were still scanty by press time, Friday night. But New Vision’s sister media house Radio West, broke the news of Barigye’s death [...]
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10 October 2011
Mumbai, India ~ A 26-year-old African woman was arrested by Customs officials at the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport here for trying to smuggle out five kg heroin, worth Rs five crore in the international market, Nakazibwe Irene, a Uganda national, arrived here via a domestic flight from Delhi and was scheduled to board a flight [...]
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10 October 2011
BBC ~ Former Cape Verde President Pedro Verona Pires has been awarded this year’s $5m (£3.2m) Mo Ibrahim prize for good governance in Africa. The prize committee said Mr Pires, who stepped down in August, had helped make the archipelago off the West African coast a “model of democracy, stability and increased prosperity”. The prize [...]
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08 October 2011
By Faith Karimi, CNN ~ Kenyans gathered in the nation’s capital Saturday for a state funeral honoring Nobel laureate Wangari Maathai, marking a final journey for the first African woman to win the peace prize. Maathai, 71, died last month after a battle with cancer. She was the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace [...]
07 October 2011
KAMPALA, (IRIN) ~ Uganda has one of the highest rates of infection-related cancers in the world. Exploring the links between infections and cancer will be one of the main roles of a new research and treatment centre in Kampala, according to officials at a ground-breaking ceremony on 4 October. The facility, a collaboration between the [...]
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06 October 2011
This is a prepared text of the Commencement address delivered by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, on June 12, 2005. I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this [...]
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28 September 2011
By Solomon W. Jagwe, www.sowl.com | With the world Bank kicking off its global Connect 4 Climate campaign this month, the subject of the protection if the worlds forests is once again in the limelight. In Africa, where many of the participants in the Photo and video competition are going to come from, there has [...]
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28 September 2011
A Legacy of ”I will do the Best I can” ~ By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN, NYT ~ Wangari Maathai, the Kenyan environmentalist who began a movement to reforest her country by paying poor women a few shillings to plant trees and who went on to become the first African woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize, died [...]
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23 September 2011
Top 10 CNN Heroes ~ For the 5th year, CNN has asked its viewers for nominations for their everyday “heroes” – people that make a difference in the world. This year, one of our supporters, Jack Harvey, from Knoxville, TN nominated Global Soap Project founder Derreck Kayongo for the award. When his profile aired in [...]
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23 September 2011
By Teddy (TMS) Ruge ~ Fellow Ugandans, As a creative consultant, it is not often that I get to work on a project that both pays me and also contributes to the development and well-being of Uganda. I would like to introduce you to such a project. I met Pratheepan “Deep” Gulasekaram in DC at the [...]
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15 September 2011
By Arthur Mwenkanya Katabalwa, Dispatch from UK: Stanley Gazemba writes an article; http://www.unaatimes.com/2011/09/an-african-living-away-from-home-a-sad-and-lonely-life-in-the-us/ , about a book, which chronicles the dire life of an African immigrant living in the USA. In the article, a line catches my eye about the book which is meant to make people think about immigrating. It reads, “…….Which is enough [...]
14 September 2011
Christians at St Peter’s Church of Uganda in Boston were honored to host The Rt. Rev. Thomas Shaw, the Diocesan Bishop of The Protestant Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts. The Bishop who has dedicated a larger part of his life as a monk has been known to devote his life to religious service and contemplation in [...]
08 September 2011
By Chris Jordan | HIGHLAND PARK — The Rev. Mark Kiyimba, the founding minister of the Unitarian-Universalist Church in Kampala, Uganda, is set to speak at the Pride Center of New Jersey at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 8. Kiyimba has received international attention for support of gay rights in Uganda. Homophobia is so severe in Uganda that [...]
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06 September 2011
By STANLEY GAZEMBA, The East African ~ Dinaw Mengestu’s book, The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears, won’t inspire you to pack your bags and leave home; it won’t excite you either. That is because Stephanos, the protagonist, is literally stuck in a rut from the first to the last page; more like a cow on a tether [...]
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30 August 2011
By ANITA SNOW – NEW YORK (AP) | Study: US newborn deaths on par with Qatar ~ Pediatrician Dr. Joy Lawn credits a quick-thinking midwife with saving her life when she was born in northern Uganda more than four decades ago. The bush hospital where Lawn’s mother was trying to give birth in the mid-1960s had [...]
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30 August 2011
By Elias Biryabarema | Reuters ~ MBALE, Uganda – The death toll from devastating landslides in eastern Uganda rose to 30 on Tuesday as bodies were retrieved from piles of sludge and rock, and officials warned that unseasonably heavy rains could cause more mudslides and floods. The landslides occurred early on Monday, engulfing the villages of [...]
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29 August 2011
By CELIA W. DUGGER, New York Times, ARUA, Uganda — Jennifer Anguko was slowly bleeding to death right in the maternity ward of a major public hospital. Only a lone midwife was on duty, the hospital later admitted, and no doctor examined her for 12 hours. An obstetrician who investigated the case said Ms. Anguko, [...]
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27 August 2011
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (UPI) ~ A Swedish filmmaker born in Uganda has been denied a visa to the United States because his name matches one on a U.S. terrorist watch list. “Everyone in my family got their visa within a week. But not me. My name is Othman Karim. That’s enough,” the frustrated Karim, 43, told [...]
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27 August 2011
LA CROSSE, WI (WXOW) ~ A special performance at the Children’s Museum in La Crosse gave parents and children a taste of African culture. The Ugandan Orphan Choir is made up of children that are part of a sponsorship program called Childcare Worldwide. The choir travels around the world singing, dancing and drumming for other [...]
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