02 August 2010
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) – A Delaware native killed in a terrorist bombing in Uganda is being memorialized in his boyhood church in Wilmington. A spokeswoman says Bethel Baptist Church was preparing for an overflow crowd of 800 at Nathan Henn’s memorial service Saturday morning. The 25-year-old humanitarian aid worker was among 76 people killed July [...]
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Posted in Life Stories, News, Obituary
02 August 2010
MOGADISHU, (IRIN) – Somali citizens among thousands recently deported from Saudi Arabia have failed to trace their families in Mogadishu, the capital, due to the frequent displacement caused by ongoing fighting between government troops and Islamist insurgents. Somali officials have urged Saudi Arabia to halt the deportations, saying conditions in the Horn of Africa country [...]
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22 June 2010
By Dennis Matanda | www.unaatimes.com | If, and when, he becomes President after the 2011 Uganda Presidential Elections, Norbert Mao knows who is going to form his cabinet. He has already picked out a Vice President, a Prime Minister, cabinet ministers – and if he has his way, he’ll maintain Prof. Ephraim Kamuntu, [currently Minister [...]
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29 May 2010
By RAPHAEL TENTHANI, Associated Press Writer | BLANTYRE, Malawi – Malawi’s president on Saturday pardoned and ordered the release of a gay couple sentenced to 14 years in prison, but said that homosexuality remains illegal in this conservative southern African nation. Activists were searching for a safe house for the couple, fearing they could be attacked upon [...]
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26 October 2009
Patrick Olobo, Uganda’s top-ranked tennis player, struggles to leave behind a devastating civil war, finding a new set of obstacles after emigrating to the US. Uganda is in the midst of the world’s longest-running civil war, a 22-year conflict that has displaced over 2 million people from their homes, resulting in the abductions of over [...]
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26 October 2009
Ugandan descendants of the Bunyoro-Kitara and Toro kingdoms met in Boston for the official inauguration of the Banyakitara Association on October 24th 2009 in what was a very well organised and colorful ceremony under the Chairmanship of Dr. Michael Kisembo and Emceed by Michael Mangeni a resident of Rhode Island. The Keynote speech was delivered [...]
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21 October 2009
By Olinka Rubadiri Yancey
My name is Olinka and I was 37years old when I found a lump in my left breast. I could remember that moment like it was yesterday. June 9th 2007 my husband Damon had taken me on a trip to San Diego to celebrate my birthday.
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Posted in Charity, Life Stories, News
27 September 2009
Jajja Malia’s wedding in boston drew lots of well wishers from far and near. Guests flew in from the UK, Denmark and distant States like Carlifonia. In his very brief speech the groom Mr. James Stockwell said he was happy that on this day he became a husband, a father, grand father and a great [...]
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21 August 2009
By Arthur Mwenkanya | www.unaatimes.com | Late 20th Century King’s College Budo in Uganda had quite a number of memorable theatrical speeches. Olangos’ campaign speech for the post of Head Prefect in November 1985 was a master class. It left the whole school with the attending members of staff in the school main hall absolutely [...]
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Posted in Inspiration, Life Stories, News, Travel
16 July 2009
July 2009, Karisoke Research Center Field News | For the second time this year, an infant gorilla residing in one of the mountain gorilla groups we monitor in Rwanda became trapped in a snare set by poachers. And once again, the youngster was rescued by our staff at the Karisoke Research Center. The area used [...]
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Posted in Galiwango, Life Stories, News
07 July 2009
Dear fellow Ugandans, I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for the trust you vested in me to serve the Ugandan community in North America, USA in particular by electing me as a Committee member of the UNAA Executive Committee and at the same time as the President for UNAA Atlanta Chapter. [...]
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28 June 2009
My Driver, By Maggie Gee | Reviewed by Angela Smith | A silverback gorilla plays the improbable role of Oberon in Maggie Gee’s 21st-century version of a Shakespearean romantic comedy. In the rainforest of western Uganda, a transformation effects reconciliation within a British and an African family. An ornate and witty series of coincidences, cultural misunderstandings [...]
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Posted in Inspiration, Life Stories
22 June 2009
June 2009, DFGFI Field News Sandy Jones, an experienced caregiver for orphaned primate infants, became the new DFGFI Gorilla Rehabilitation Manager in March. She spent her first two months making the acquaintance of each of the 11 young gorillas that are cared for by the Fossey Fund and the Mountain Gorilla Veterinary Project in temporary [...]
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Posted in Galiwango, Life Stories
22 June 2009
U.S. Senator Russ Feingold, Wisconsin | Bipartisan Legislation Would Help Protect Region from Attacks by the Lord’s Resistance Army and Support Recovery in Northern Uganda | Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senators Russ Feingold (D-WI) and Sam Brownback (R-KS) and U.S. Representatives Jim McGovern (D-MA), Brad Miller (D-NC) and Ed Royce (R-CA) are introducing legislation today [...]
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19 April 2009
By Lucinda Ryan | “I’m passionate about helping people,” said Tigray Kahsai, a junior at Alameda Community Learning Center charter school. That passion has led to Kahsai’s latest venture — a benefit concert by two alternative rock bands to raise money for former child soldiers in Northern Uganda.
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19 April 2009
In two weeks, Rennie Duncan of Palm Desert will travel to live in a country she’s never been to and care for children she’s never met. Duncan, 61, said Saturday she decided a year ago that she was leaving the United States to live in Uganda to care for children orphaned by HIV, poverty and [...]
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Posted in Charity, Inspiration, Life Stories, News
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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Posted in Inspiration, Life, Life Stories, News
20 March 2009
By Rob Mrkonich | The Wizard of the Nile: The Hunt for Africa’s Most Wanted: Written by Matthew Green | Olive Branch Press 322 pp. $20 | Africa faces many problems, from disease epidemics to genocide to civil war. But none of these problems is as confusing or intriguing as the problems caused by the [...]
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25 February 2009
By Mark Jenkins | Emmanuel de Merode is a man on a dangerous mission: to save Congo’s mountain gorillas, one of the most imperiled creatures on Earth. There are only about 720 mountain gorillas left on the planet, 200 of which live in war-ravaged Virunga National Park in the far eastern corner of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (the other 500 thrive just across the border in peaceful Uganda and Rwanda, and lure millions in tourist dollars each year).
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Posted in Galiwango, Life Stories, News
09 February 2009
On saturday, February 7th, Omega attended the 40th NAACP Image Award nominee luncheon. This was an event attended by many notable hollywood stars. We spoke to Omega after the event and asked her what her overall assessment was of the star studded occassion. Amazing and humbling is how she described the evening.
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Posted in Artists, Life Stories, News
06 February 2009
When you finally go to Namirembe Cathedral one of these days, amongst the tombstones that conceal many a great and honorable man is one that has the inscription: “Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God – Mathew 5:9.”
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17 January 2009
By Dennis Matanda
The Great Philosopher, Plato once said: ‘One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.’ For many years, this was true for Africans. As a people, they were penalized through underdevelopment, death and political stagnation by dictators such as Bokassa, Amin; and of course, Mugabe.
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27 December 2008
Article by Sharline Nabulime, US ELECTIONS A number of Ugandans living in the US hit the campaign trail to mobilise votes for Barack Obama. One of them, Sharline Nabulime, a born-again single mother, relives her experience UNTIL a year ago, I considered myself a republican; a born-again conservative. That, however, changed the day my daughter, [...]
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21 December 2008
Where Has All The Silence Gone? By Kim Jagwe When I was a little girl probably no more than five years old, my mother would dress my oldest sister, myself and the baby for our regular trip to the city an hour away. I loved those outings because we got to ride on the bus with [...]
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Posted in Life Stories