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24 July 2010
Mogadishu (Alshahid) -The militant rebels in Somalia Alshabab, linked to international terror group al-Qaeda, have claimed responsibility for the triple bomb attacks late Sunday in Uganda which so far has killed 64 people, reports Xinhua. A senior member of the Somali group said the blasts were aimed at retaliating Uganda for sending peacekeepers to Somalia [...]
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22 July 2010
THE GERMAN Shepherd puppy flown to South Africa by its Ugandan owner for a heart operation died just 30 minutes before the end of her surgery yesterday, a hospital spokesman said. “The operation was going really well, but towards the end she started bleeding profusely from the lungs and ultimately died,” said Onderstepoort Veterinary Teaching [...]
17 July 2010
Dear Community Members, With great sorrow, Mrs Cate Wanyana-Nangalama and family announce the death of her beloved husband Joseph Nangalama resident of Long Branch NJ. Mr Nangalama died after a short illness at Jersey Shore Medical Center. At the time of his death he had made remarkable improvement at Gateway Rehabilitation center in Eatontown NJ [...]
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11 July 2010
At least 23 people, including one American, have been killed in twin blast in the Ugandan capital Kampala. It is not known what caused the blasts, which police said went off at a rugby club and at a restaurant, as football fans watched the World Cup final. “These bombs were definitely targeting World Cup crowds,” [...]
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03 July 2010
CNN | At least 230 people were killed and 190 injured when an oil tanker flipped over and exploded in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a government spokesman said Saturday. While the spokesman, Mende Omalanga, said five of the dead were United Nations peacekeepers, an official with the U.N. mission in the capital of Kinshasa [...]
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30 June 2010
Children at Risk Action Network puts on advocacy day to raise awareness of child rights CRANE is a network of 113 organisations that together have over 500 staff and 400 volunteers and care for more than 19,400 children in Kampala. Part of CRANE’s 2010 advocacy strategy is to work together to see that children [...]
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20 June 2010
BBC | Rwanda has said it was not behind the shooting of an exiled former military chief of staff in South Africa. Lt Gen Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa, a critic of Rwanda’s president, remains in a critical condition after being shot outside his Johannesburg home. Rosette Nyamwasa said it was an assassination attempt as the lone [...]
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17 June 2010
The decision to include the crime of aggression under the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court (ICC) is a step forward for international justice but raises expectations that the court may be unable to meet, say analysts. The crime of aggression seeks to criminalize the use of armed force by one state against another in [...]
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13 June 2010
IRIN | The International Criminal Court (ICC) is beginning to deliver justice to survivors of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity, but the world has yet to fully commit to ending impunity for the gravest crimes, according to participants at a conference reviewing the court’s legal foundation. “The Rome Statute has been described as [...]
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13 June 2010
IRIN | African Union members have adopted plans to implement the Kampala convention on the protection of internally displaced people, including increasing their contributions to refugee and IDP funding and accelerating the convention’s ratification, signature and domestication, the AU said. Signed by 26 countries since it was endorsed in the Ugandan capital of Kampala on [...]
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06 June 2010
KAMPALA | IRIN | The Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Luis Moreno-Ocampo, said on 3 June the ICC was assessing information accusing the Ugandan military of war crimes and atrocities committed in the 20-year civil war in the north of the country. Moreno-Ocampo told reporters during the ongoing ICC review conference in [...]
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29 May 2010
Koforidua, Ghana | A Uganda Government delegation, on Friday paid a courtesy call on Mr. Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo, Eastern Regional Minister, in Koforidua. The two-member delegation led by Mr. Gabriel Opio, Minister for Gender, Labour and Social Development, is on a two-day visit of the country to study the relationship between Central Government and leaders of traditional [...]
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28 May 2010
Berlin – Uganda has reassured Germany it does not support a bid by one parliamentarian to outlaw homosexual acts, in order to win an extension of existing aid payments, German officials said Friday. The German development aid ministry said in Berlin it had cleared pledges totalling 120 million euros (148 million dollars) to Uganda over [...]
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28 May 2010
BBC | Hundreds of bodies buried in a mudslide in Uganda three months ago have yet to be recovered, the rescue team says. Three villages on the slopes of Mount Elgon, near the eastern town of Bududa, were swept away in mudslide. About 200 people are still unaccounted for, while around 100 bodies have been recovered, [...]
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24 March 2010
NAKIVALE, (IRIN) – All Pherebonia Nyiramatabaro, 85, wants is land where she and her 15-year-old grandson can grow a few crops. Nyiramatabaro, living in a two-roomed hut in Juru A camp in the Nakivale Refugee Settlement, southwestern Uganda, is one of thousands of Rwandans hit by a Uganda government directive barring refugees from cultivation. Under [...]
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26 February 2010
By DANA HUGHES | ABC News | Witch Doctors, Films May Propagate Belief That Burial of Body Parts Brings Riches | Uganda is a country so beautiful that Winston Churchill once called it “the pearl of Africa.” It has world-class wildlife, fertile rolling hills and a breathtaking lakeshore. Asima Baguma describes the horror of finding [...]
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27 December 2009
It was her first trip to Africa. She arrived late at night and had barely gotten up the next morning when word came to her: She had visitors. Peggy says: “Unbelievable. In a city of 2 million people – a huge city, with all its refugee areas and slums that could take hours to walk [...]
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27 December 2009
LONDON – A top Anglican cleric who was born in Uganda spoke out Thursday against a proposed law in his native country that would impose the death penalty on some gays. Archbishop of York John Sentamu — who along with the archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, is one of the global fellowship’s most senior priests [...]
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19 December 2009
At Copenhagen on Tuesday 15th December, Welsh Environment Minister Jane Davidson today announced a new deal between the Welsh Assembly Government and the Mbale region of Uganda to help prepare the area for the impacts of climate change. The Mbale Territorial Approach to Climate Change project is a three year partnership between Wales, the Mbale [...]
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02 December 2009
WAKISO, Uganda (AFP) – Unable to face explaining to her younger daughter Winnie Namagga, that, after losing her husband and eldest child to AIDS, she herself had tested positive for the disease, Harriet Balakyabwe decided to say it in writing. “I was fearing to talk about it,” Harriet Balakyabwe, Winnie?s mother, told AFP. “When her [...]
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25 November 2009
Mrs.Marjorie Juliet Nalika Kavuma, died on November 25th, 2009 at Valley Presbyterian Hospital, in Van Nuys, California from complications related to Parkinson’s disease. Mrs Kavuma was born on August 4th, 1939 at Rubaga Hospital, the daughter of the Late Owekitiibwa Ezekiel Walusimbi, former Regent and Chancellor of the Exchequer during the late Sekabaka Muteesa II’s [...]
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23 November 2009
By Pius Bugembe | Richard Namisano( Namisi) of New York City and Peter Mukasa of Waltham Massachusetts announce the death of Maama Irene Nambafu Mukasa of Bweya, Kampala Uganda. Maama Irene passed away this morning 11/23/2009 at 5.30 AM in Kampala Hospital. She had a surgery on her back in September, two weeks just after [...]
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14 November 2009
By Keith Vass | Saanich News | For Canadian kids, getting your eyes checked is just part of growing up. In Uganda, it just doesn’t happen. It’s why many children in that African nation never know why they’re struggling in class. “Since they have never been tested, they wouldn’t be able to tell if its [...]
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09 November 2009
KAMPALA (AFP) – Human Rights Watch on Friday criticised Uganda’s HIV/AIDS bill, some of whose clauses call for mandatory testing of pregnant women, sex offenders and victims, and disclosure of HIV status. The New York-based group said the bill “promotes dangerous and discredited approaches to the AIDS epidemic”. The HIV and AIDS Prevention and Control [...]
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09 November 2009
By JOSEPH DITS | Tribune Staff Writer | SOUTH BEND — They came to the dying man’s village in Uganda down a weaving, rutted dirt road. They found him lying in his dark hut. No windows, just a door. The cancer bulged near his eye. It reeked because of a lack of care — so [...]
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29 October 2009
The U.S. Embassy in Uganda announced a grant of $246 million in new aid for improving the Uganda’s agricultural and health systems, Reuters reports. “More than $170 million will be spent on health and education to combat the HIV/AIDS pandemic, fight tuberculosis, eradicate malaria, improve maternal and child health and increase access to family planning [...]
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19 October 2009
AWER, Ambrose Obiya, 70, and his family returned home in March after spending 13 years in a nearby camp, or protected village, because the war between the army and the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army had subsided. Although life improved with the move, it was something of a hard homecoming, explains Obiya, who lost his sight [...]
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29 August 2009
NAIROBI, August 2009 (IRIN) – Hundreds of children in northern Uganda have been affected by a rare and unexplained “nodding disease” that causes seizures, physical and mental stunting and at times leads to blindness and even death. Previously reported in Southern Sudan, its cause is being investigated, according to the Ugandan health ministry. IRIN contacted researchers [...]
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10 July 2009
Ssanyu Nutt-Birigwa believes in serendipity. And why wouldn’t she? The path that’s led her to her current role as a partner in the recently launched Peace & Happiness Group — an organization she started with her sister to shed light on the ongoing aftermath of the civil war in Uganda and help stimulate economic and [...]
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24 June 2009
NAIROBI, (IRIN) | About 40 percent of HIV-positive Ugandan patients are already ill or displaying symptoms of AIDS when they are diagnosed, a new study in the latest issue of the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes http://journals.lww.com/jaids/Abstract/publishahead/Late_Disease_Stage_at_Presentation_to_an_HIV.99240.aspx has found. The study, conducted by western Uganda’s Mbarara University Teaching Hospital, noted that more than one-third [...]
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08 May 2009
At Brookline Community Acupuncture, treatments are provided in a group setting and offered on a sliding scale. Therefore, you can come more frequently and thus optimize the effects of the treatments. Everyone's needs and financial situation are different. Your practitioner will suggest how often she/he feels you need to receive a treatment, but the decision is yours. Although we have a suggested fee scale based on income, you pay what you feel you can afford.
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19 April 2009
MADISON – Impoverished schoolchildren in Masajja, Uganda, will receive some much-needed help this summer from students at Drew University in Madison. Raising the funds to extend that help will begin with a “family fun day” offered to the Madison community from 1 to 5 p.m. this Sunday, April 19, with dodge ball, kickball and three-legged races [...]
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07 April 2009
Rwanda is one of the most enchanting places on earth—and one of the most haunted. With its rolling hills and lush greenery, it could easily pass for paradise—if not for memories of 1994. Fifteen years ago, on April 6, the plane carrying Rwanda's president, Juvénal Habyarimana, was shot out of the sky. The murder set off an orgy of slaughter and cruelty so extreme that it defied description or understanding.
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06 April 2009
By James Bakama, Cash at stake in bodybuilding contest | A bodybuilding and fitness show featuring over 100 competitors will be staged in Kampala next month. The inaugural Bob Classic Show will have cash prizes at stake, according to its California-based organiser Robert Ssebugwawo. The first edition will entirely be for Ugandans. Ssebugwawo said,” We [...]
27 March 2009
JOHANNESBURG, (IRIN) – In a time of growing food shortages and high prices, humanitarian agencies have begun exploring ways to respond to crises sooner. Pre-positioning food aid closer to where it is needed to save money and time is one idea gaining ground. Leading the efforts to scale-up positioning food ahead of a crisis [...]
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19 March 2009
By Daniel Howden, Kampala | In the fertile fields of Uganda there are the first green shoots of a possible answer to the food crisis. The green revolution of the 1960s, which saw food production catch and outstrip population growth for the first time, left Africa behind. That revolution was driven by a drought [...]
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