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30 August 2011
By Matt O’Brien – Contra Costa Times, OAKLAND, Carlifornia ~ Being gay in Uganda was never easy for gospel singer Daniel Dyson, but the anti-gay hysteria that erupted in the African nation two years ago forced him to flee. Prominent Christian pastors had launched a political movement to eliminate homosexuality in the country. They employed [...]
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02 June 2011
By Laurie Monsebraaten, Toronto Star | At 21, Lilliane Namukasa left Uganda to make a new life in Canada as a live-in caregiver for two small children. But after working full-time for two years, she was paid just $2,100 by her Brampton employer and then fired without cause, forcing her into a homeless shelter, Namukasa [...]
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30 May 2011
Saturday May 28th 2011, was a colorful evening as Mr. Pius Bugembe, the Chairman of the Ugandan American Association of Greater New York, wed his long time girlfriend and sweetheart Hedwig Tushabe at the Holy Rosary Catholic Parish in the Bronx, New York. The wedding was attended by a host of dignitaries that included the [...]
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24 May 2011
Barbara Birungi | South Africa Dispatch | Coming home to (Uganda) used to be a very exciting feeling, as they say “East or West home is best” As we drove from Entebbe airport, I was looking for the sign post ” Welcome to Kampala City”, but there was none. My first welcome experience, when I [...]
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16 May 2011
(CNN) — Olympic marathon gold medalist Samuel Wanjiru died early Monday from injuries sustained after jumping from the balcony of his Nyahururu home in central Kenya, a senior police official said. Wanjiru jumped from the second-floor of his home late Sunday after his wife caught him in the company of another woman, said Jasper Ompati, [...]
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13 May 2011
By MATTHEW LEE, Associated Press | WASHINGTON – Jackpot! Not so fast. For a few joyful days, more than 20,000 people around the world thought they literally had hit the lottery and won a chance to come and live legally in the United States. Oops, the State Department said Friday, we had computer problems and have to [...]
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10 May 2011
GULU, (IRIN) – Women and girls returning to northern Uganda from forced conscription into the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) struggle to resettle in their home communities because of stigma and a severe shortage of reintegration facilities tailored to their needs, say analysts and returnees. The LRA, which was formed in northern Uganda in 1986 as [...]
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05 May 2011
By Robert Evans | GENEVA (Reuters) – Kasha Jacqueline Nabagesera, founder of a gay rights movement in Uganda where as in many African countries homosexuality is illegal, has won a major international award for her work, it was announced Tuesday. The Geneva-based Martin Ennals Foundation said it was honoring Nabagesera with its annual prize, worth some [...]
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02 May 2011
By Dennis Matanda | USA | I called my mother yesterday after what seems like donkeys’ years. Because this life is full of bees, my excuse for irresponsibility is unacceptable but plausible. All that, however, went to the wind after I saw videos and news coming out of Uganda. After being glued to the clear videos [...]
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20 April 2011
By Solomon W. Jagwe | North Carolina | I have lived through some really powerful storms back in Uganda but nothing prepared me for the harrowing experience of the power of a tornado. Altogether, 45 five people died in the storms that swept through North Carolina all the way to Virginia. The memories are imprinted [...]
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11 April 2011
(CNN) — Laurent Gbagbo, the self-declared president of Ivory Coast, was arrested Monday, sources said, potentially ending a civil war that has claimed hundreds of lives in the cocoa-producing West African nation. After days of holding out, his compound was stormed by troops Monday, according to Ivorian, French and United Nations sources. Gbagbo “is well [...]
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09 April 2011
SAN DIEGO NEWS | 10News | Joseph Bokombe is Being Held By U.S Immigration Officials ~ A petition drive has been launched for a local man whose friends say will see a death sentence if he is deported back to his homeland. In a picture obtained by 10News, a smiling Joseph Bokombe stands inside a [...]
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12 October 2010
By Elias Biryabarema | KAMPALA (Reuters) – Uganda’s government said on Monday it had seized copies of a book critical of President Yoweri Museveni written by the sister of the country’s opposition leader on grounds it could spark social unrest. Olive Kobusingye, sister to the east African nation’s opposition flag-bearer Kizza Besigye told Reuters 500 [...]
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12 October 2010
Shooting on Monday night by northern Sudan soldiers was an attempt to start clashes in the oil-rich region of Abyei, southern former rebels say. SPLM spokesman Kuol Deim Kuol said four soldiers went into Abyei town’s market and fired at random, wounding a trader. He told the BBC it was a pretext to start trouble, [...]
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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