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05 April 2012
By Dylan Stableford | The Envoy ~ Invisible Children, the organization behind the viral smash hit “Kony 2012” video, released the sequel on Thursday. Like the original, half-hour documentary, this 20-minute film titled, Kony 2012 PART II: BEYOND FAMOUS,” attacks Joseph Kony, the Ugandan warlord featured in the first video. The new video also addresses critics [...]
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05 April 2012
By NICOLE PERLROTH – New York Times. Published: April 4, 2012 ~ SAN FRANCISCO — Yahoo said on Wednesday that it would lay off 2,000 employees, or about 14 percent of its work force, in the latest in a string of failed efforts to turn around the pioneering Internet company and make it once again [...]
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04 April 2012
Source – The New Vision, Statement from the Inspector General of Police. UNLAWFUL SOCIETIES ORDER “Under section 56(2)(c) of the Penal Code Act, Cap.120, Attorney General Hon. Peter Nyombi today (Wednesday the 4th of April 2012) issued a Declaration Of Unlawful Societies Order in respect of Activists for Change (A4C). This statutory order was exercised [...]
03 April 2012
Source – The Uganda Independent News Magazine, Article by Andrew Mwenda How the documentary projects a picture of helplessness and how we can use its marketing lessons to portray a better one The dust has now settled on the documentary about Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) rebel leader, Joseph Kony. I was impressed by Invisible Children [...]
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01 April 2012
Western Union (NYSE:WU), a leader in global money transfer and payment services launched its cross-border money transfer service using just their mobile phones to Uganda on March 28th. This partnership service between western union and MTN comes after the successful Safaricom M-PESA mobile money launch in Nairobi, Kenya. TOP PHOTO: Hon. Edward Kiwanuka Ssekandi Vice [...]
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31 March 2012
Mtheto Lungu, AfricaNews reporter in Lilongwe, Malawi Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika this has finally bowed down to civil society organizations’ (CSOs) pressure to scrape the First Lady’s pay from government coffers of around MK1.3 million (about US$7,840) monthly. The release, co-signed by the CSOs head of negotiations, Voice Mhone, and the PCDG’s head of [...]
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30 March 2012
Western Union has announced a money transfer partnership with MTN uganda in a move viewed to signify the growing relevance, and in equal measure, the challenge of the mobile based money transfer service to the traditional service providers. The new partnership according to officials from both companies will enable money transfers across borders using the [...]
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28 March 2012
New York Times – By JOSH KRON KAMPALA, Uganda — The African Union announced Friday that it would launch a new regional military operation against the Lord’s Resistance Army, the vicious Ugandan rebel group that has been terrorizing parts of central Africa for more than 20 years. The operation, which aims to bring together 5,000 [...]
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28 March 2012
Press release - The Western Union Company (NYSE: WU) and MTN Group (JSE: MTN) today announced the launch of a mobile money transfer service in Uganda, allowing MTN customers to send and receive money across borders using just their mobile phones for the first time. The service, announced today at a press conference in Kampala, [...]
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27 March 2012
Counting Down To The Uganda -Canadian Business and Social Convention 2012 (HD)
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26 March 2012
Because Invisible Children wants to engage Ugandan and Central African diaspora members in the most constructive format possible we are postponing our scheduled meeting for Saturday March 31st to a later date to be determined. We have a strong desire to engage diaspora members on important issues relating to the LRA crisis, but we want [...]
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26 March 2012
By ADAM NOSSITER – New York Times DAKAR, Senegal — The elderly president of this West African nation conceded defeat after elections here on Sunday, a rare example of a prompt and peaceful political turnover in a region tormented by coups and leaders who refuse to give up power. But that quest appears to have [...]
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23 March 2012
New York Times – By JOSH KRON KAMPALA, Uganda — In its own way, Uganda is trying to claim its moment in an unfortunate spotlight. A video posted online this month, “Kony 2012,” which is trying to call attention to the brutality of the Ugandan rebel leader Joseph Kony and his penchant for kidnapping and [...]
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23 March 2012
Thursday, March 29, 2012, at Atlas Performing Arts Center, African Diaspora for Change is having the event of the year: The Spirit of the Diaspora Extravaganza. If you attended our Inaugural Ball, you won’t want to miss this. Building on the UN’s declaration of 2011 as International Year for People of African Descent, ADC has [...]
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23 March 2012
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will nominate Dartmouth College President Jim Yong Kim to head the World Bank, a surprise pick for the international financial institution’s top job, senior administration officials said. The Korean-born Kim is a physician by training and a prominent figure in global health and development circles. Officials believe his experience will [...]
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08 March 2012
By HLNtv.com Staff ~ Rarely does a 27-minute documentary on an alleged Ugandan war criminal became a “viral hit.” The average YouTube attention span typically lasts only long enough to see the cat finally swat away the balloon. Well, that changed when Jason Russel’s film took over the Internet Wednesday. With over seven million YouTube views [...]
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04 March 2012
Stunned residents of Congo’s capital surveyed damage caused bydeadly blasts at a weapons depot Sunday that levelled homes, destroyed military barracks and blew out windows in aneighbouring city. “I experienced the apocalypse,” said Jeanette Nuongui, the soul survivor from a family home that was destroyed in one of the blasts that rocked Brazzaville. “It is by the grace of God I am here. [...]
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04 March 2012
Uganda Wildlife Authority acting executive director Dr. Andrew Seguya displays some the 162 kilograms of ivory and other animal products impounded while being smuggled, in the capital Kampala. Officials in Uganda say seized nearly 360 pounds (162 kilograms) of ivory and other animal parts and products that were being smuggled in and out of the [...]
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04 March 2012
Assistant producer Katheryne Fuller of the U.S. television show “The Amazing Race” is assisted by Brad Nathanson (L), a private South African investigator, and her father Steward Fuller (R), as she departs the courthouse after pleading guilty of cocaine usage in the Ugandan capital of Kampala, March 1, 2012. “The Amazing Race” television producer Jeff [...]
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04 March 2012
Photographer Anthony Karen visited the Somali capital to document life in the region. “I’m drawn to places that most aren’t willing to go,” he says. Photojournalist Karen’s Somalia Photo Essay Anthony Karen is a photojournalist based in New York. His passion for photography began in Haiti, where he documented the various Vodou rituals and [...]
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12 February 2012
By Faith Karimi and Azadeh Ansari, CNN ~ Another musical titan whose soaring voice ruled the charts for decades has fallen. Whitney Houston joins an august list of the departed since Michael Jackson’s death nearly three years ago. “First there was MJ, then there was Heavy D and now Whitney,” said Shaun Jones, 47, of Titusville, Florida, adding [...]
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28 January 2012
THE WHITE HOUSE, Office of Communications, FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, January 27, 2012 ~ WASHINGTON, DC – On Monday, January 30th, the White House will honor TMS Ruge as one of fourteen Champions of Change who are leaders in American Diaspora communities with roots in the Horn of Africa. These leaders are helping to build stronger [...]
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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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22 January 2012
JUBA/BEIJING (Reuters) - South Sudan will announce plans for an oil export pipeline through East Africa next week, a priority for the new nation because its crude is “no longer safe” in Sudan, a government spokesman said on Saturday. Landlocked South Sudan took about three quarters of Sudan’s roughly 500,000 barrels per day of oil production when it [...]
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22 January 2012
By David Carroll, Anchor, CLEVELAND, BRADLEY COUNTY (WRCB) ~ Around the Bradley Central High School campus, the new teacher in town is known as “Mr. Walter,” always with a welcoming smile and a gentle nature. Otim Walter Knox is principal of the Paboss Secondary School in Northern Uganda. He’s enjoying his new students, almost as [...]
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22 January 2012
By Jasmina Wellinghoff, For the Express-News ~ Peter Kasule can empathize with his young performers in the touring troupe Spirit of Uganda, all of whom are either orphans or at-risk youths. An orphan whose parents died of AIDS, like so many of his adult countrymen in his native Uganda, Kasule, 30, got his start as a [...]
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22 January 2012
By William Maclean | MARRAKESH, Morocco (Reuters) - Al Shabaab would “do anything” to strike inside Uganda in retaliation for Kampala’s military role in Somalia, and good regional intelligence as well as inter-community relations would mean the militant group was unlikely to succeed, a Ugandan general said on Friday. Lieutenant General Ivan Koreta also said that plans to increase theAMISOM peace force in which Uganda participates [...]
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02 January 2012
By Ugandan Diaspora News Team and Agencies, KAMPALA ~ In what was dubbed as the first Ugandan Diaspora Social Networking Gala held on 29th December 2011, all roads led to Kampala Serena Hotel. The program started off on time with social networking in the Conference lobby area that allowed guests to mingle, greet and visit [...]
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25 December 2011
Daily Gazette ~ A BOTTLE of whisky signed by Britain’s three biggest political leaders has raised more than £400 for a school’s charity fund. Pupils at Colchester County High School for Girls are trying to raise £10,000 to build a school for orphans in Uganda. After hearing about the appeal Colchester MP Bob Russell bought a bottle [...]
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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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15 December 2011
THE HAGUE, 15 December 2011. The General Assembly and the Security Council of the United Nations elected on Tuesday 13 December Ms Julia Sebutinde as a Member of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for a term of office of nine years, beginning on 6 February 2012. Read the biography of Ms Sebutinde. It is [...]
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15 December 2011
By Ronnie Mayanja, Dispatch from Kampala ~ The fourth Ttabamiruka Conference kicked off at Hotel Africana with a call to creating wealth to benefit the people in Buganda. This year the conference is organised under the theme “Promoting Investment in Buganda and Uganda: Opportunities and Challenges.” Speaking during the opening the Buganda Kingdom Attorney General [...]
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12 December 2011
By Kyle Almond, CNN ~ Los Angeles (CNN) — Robin Lim, an American woman who has helped thousands of poor Indonesian women have a healthy pregnancy and birth, was named the 2011 CNN Hero of the Year on Sunday night. Through her Yayasan Bumi Sehat health clinics, “Mother Robin,” or “Ibu Robin” as she is [...]
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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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