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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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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, [...]
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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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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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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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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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 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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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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18 August 2011
BBC ~ A south London vicar was arrested on suspicion of conducting sham marriages, it has emerged. The Reverend Nathan Ntege, 52, of St Jude with St Aidan Church in Thornton Heath, was arrested on 4 June, the UK Border Agency (UKBA) said. He was arrested on suspicion of carrying out an act to facilitate [...]
19 June 2011
By Chris Kenning | Courier Journal ~ An anti-gay bill in Uganda that drew global condemnation for proposing the death penalty for “aggravated homosexuality” remains a threat, a Ugandan gay-rights minister said in Louisville on Sunday. The bill, introduced in Uganda’s parliament in 2009 and widely criticized by human rights groups, would have made engaging [...]
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22 April 2011
Kampala, Uganda (CNN) — Ugandan opposition leader Dr. Kizza Besigye was arrested again Thursday — the second time this week — during a “walk to work” campaign protesting the high rate of inflation as well as the increased cost of commodities such as fuel. Besigye has vowed to “walk to work” to protest every Monday [...]
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20 April 2011
By Richard Semitego – Ugandans in the United Kingdom have Hijacked the Ugandan High Commission calling for the immediate release without an condition of those who were arrested during the Walk-to-work protests. About 100 protesters including opposition leaders have been arrested or detained and others charged for allegedly holding demonstrations, in protest of high food [...]
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13 April 2011
JUBA, Sudan (AFP) – More than 800 people have died in south Sudan violence since January and almost 94,000 people fled their homes, posing a major challenge for the fledgling state, the top UN aid official for the region warned on Wednesday. The nation in waiting has seen an upsurge in bloody clashes since January’s [...]
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09 April 2011
KAMPALA (AFP) – Ugandan police on Friday outlawed an anti-government protest called by opposition leader Kizza Besigye at the weekend, vowing that any demonstration will be “dealt with firmly.” But Besigye, who has warned that Uganda is ripe for an Egyptian-style revolution, said Saturday’s demonstration would go on peacefully. “I would like to caution any [...]
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30 March 2011
By Elias Biryabarema | Reuters | KAMPALA — Uganda would consider an asylum application from Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, as it would for anyone seeking refuge in the east African country, a minister said on Wednesday. Al Arabiya television reported that Uganda would welcome Gaddafi after Western and other states suggested the Libyan leader should [...]
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29 March 2011
Washington Post | KAMPALA, Uganda — Police in Uganda say they stopped supporters of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi from marching toward and possibly attacking U.S. and other embassies in Kampala. A group of several hundred Africans from countries like Kenya, Somalia, and Tanzania held an anti-U.S. rally where they held signs like “Down with America” [...]
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07 March 2011
Photographs by Marcus Bleasdale, Article by Joe Bavier | For nearly a quarter century in central Africa, the Lord’s Resistance Army has run a merciless campaign of terror. Led by Joseph Kony, a former altar boy and self-styled Ugandan prophet who claims to take orders from a host of spirits he alone can hear, the [...]
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25 February 2011
By Sheila Kinaheirwe | Program Assistant | The Icon Entrepreneurial and Transformational Leadership Awards, which are being held in commemoration of 100 years of International Women’s Day are scheduled for Monday 7th March 2011, during the first 2011 intergenerational mentoring convening of the Uganda Network of Women Entrepreneurs (UNWE). UNWE is an intergenerational entrepreneurial leadership [...]
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17 February 2011
By Faith Karimi, CNN | A series of fiery blasts killed 20 people and injured dozens more at a military camp in Tanzania, authorities said early Thursday. At least 184 others were wounded in the blasts at an army base in the main city of Dar es Salaam, said Nyancheghe Nanai, assistant director of disaster [...]
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13 February 2011
By: Sunni M. Khalid | For too many Egyptians, sub-Saharan Africa is a stereotypical exotic land of thick jungles and masses of poor, starving and black-skinned savages. Because of my looks, my religion and my name, I have frequently been mistaken for Arab during my travels throughout the Middle East. It has been a mentally [...]
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03 February 2011
From Tom Walsh, Kampala, Uganda (CNN) | Ugandan police announced Thursday the arrest of a 22-year-old man who they say confessed to killing gay rights activist David Kato. In a news conference at which suspect Enock Nsubuga was presented to the media, authorities said he admitted using a hammer to bludgeon Kato to death. Nsubuga was [...]
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30 January 2011
NYTIMES | LONDON — A 29-year-old Ugandan woman who says she is a lesbian won a last-minute stay of deportation on Friday night from a British High Court judge who heard her lawyers plead that her life would be at risk if she was forced to return to her homeland. The judge’s ruling came after [...]
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23 January 2011
UGANDA | On the Road with Kampala Bikers Association | Inside Africa hits the open road and cruises alongside the motorcycle enthusiasts of Uganda.
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20 January 2011
BBC | One of the biggest hauls of illegal ape parts in Central Africa has been seized by officials in Gabon, the global campaign group WWF says. Five people were arrested for the cache which included the head and hands of an endangered gorilla, 12 chimpanzee heads and 30 chimpanzee hands. WWF called for a [...]
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19 January 2011
By Mike Wooldridge | BBC News, World affairs correspondent | A Ugandan Church leader who has played a key role in efforts to bring an end to the conflict involving the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) has said military strategies are not the answer. Archbishop John Baptist Odama told the BBC a negotiated settlement was still [...]
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15 January 2011
By Koojo Mathew Apuuli | GateHouse News Service | WESTON — Note: The following was written by Koojo Mathew Apuuli to the Field School community, which has had a global connection to the Kasiisi School in western Uganda since 1997. Over the years, Field School has sponsored the secondary education of a dozen students. Koojo [...]
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