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11 December 2011
By Farouk Chothia | BBC Africa ~ With the African Union (AU) having been a fierce critic of outgoing International Criminal Court chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo, it will be hoping for a better relationship with his successor, Fatou Bensouda – the first African to hold a top post at the ICC. The AU lobbied intensely [...]
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11 December 2011
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel’s government approved on Sunday a $167 million plan to try to stem the flow of African migrants who cross into the country through its porous border with Egypt. Announcing the government’s intention to raise fines for employers who hire illegal workers, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said: “If necessary, we will close businesses so that the enterprise [...]
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09 December 2011
Western Union and USAID Launch Second African Diaspora Marketplace | With Small Business Workshops in Seven Cities ~ Tour kicks off second phase of successful initiative designed to create entrepreneurial solutions to economic and social challenges.
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06 December 2011
By Max Delany | AFP ~ Chris Nsamba says that at one time or another every successful scientist has been called a madman, and some think he is crazy about working to send the first Ugandan into space — from the backyard of his mother’s home. “People around here used to come and see and say he was mad, but [...]
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06 December 2011
By Elias Biryabarema, KAMPALA (Reuters) – The Uganda shilling firmed against the dollar for the second straight session on Tuesday, as greenback inflows from charities, offshore investors and Ugandans living overseas comfortably outweighed diminishing importer dollar demand. Traders forecast the local currency would extend its gains further in the days ahead, with an expected surge in remittances from Ugandans in the Diaspora [...]
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01 December 2011
By Ronnie Mayanja | Editor, UNAA Times Online | Greetings folks and welcome to last calender month of the year 2011. It’s International Aids Day and ofcourse a call to all of us for more responsible living. My second month in Kampala has been quite eventful. As soon as I arrived at the end of [...]
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01 December 2011
Jazzy singer-songwriter Somi will win you over with her warm smile and quiet, soulful voice that’s infused with the African spirit. The daughter of Rwandese and Ugandan parents, this Illinois-born chanteuse writes poetic lyrics shrouded in intimacy, and laced with Swahili, Kinyarwanda, and Rutoro. Her deep, honeyed voice intones what she calls “holistic new African [...]
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27 November 2011
By Birungi Katongole ~ On behalf of the family of the Late Prof. Charles Katongole and Mrs. Jean Katongole siblings Kabalaya, Kaikara, Birungi, Kaliisa, Mugisa, Paula, Katusabe, Kagoro, we would like to express immense gratitude for the generosity shown during the passing away of our youngest brother Kisembo Katongole. Words can not express how grateful [...]
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26 November 2011
By JOSH KRON, New York Times ~ Despite Ugandans’ dreams of industrialization, the country’s most lucrative export is coffee, and fish is second. Nearly 40 percent of the population survives on less than $1.25 a day, according to the World Bank. But when oil starts pumping within the next several years, the expected revenue of [...]
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26 November 2011
Technocrats handling the digital migration process are concerned that the process is not moving according to plan, largely due to financial constraints. Executive Director of the Uganda Communications Commission Godfrey Mutabazi is worried that Uganda may fail to beat the 2015 deadline for switching off from analogue TV broadcasting to digital because of delay by [...]
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23 November 2011
Here is a presentation by the MD for Knight Frank at the recent East Africa Real Estate Investment-2011 Conference. Focus on East Africa, in conjunction with its strategic partners, is organising the East Africa Real Estate Investment-2011 (the conference). The conference will be held on 22 – 23 November 2011 in Kampala, Uganda and is supported [...]
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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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20 November 2011
By Ronnie Mayanja, Dispatch from Kampala, UNAA Times Online ~ If you asked me what I enjoy in my free time, fashion and design will always feature right up there. Some might even ask, how can a guy enjoy fashion and design?, but I do, and will go to great lengths to attend such events. I’ve [...]
20 November 2011
By Ronnie Mayanja, Dispatch from Kampala, UNAA Times Online ~ A campaign dubbed ‘Kampala City Yange’ was launched on 11.11.11 at 11am at Kampala Capital City Authority grounds by a group of young city activists advocating for keeping Kampala Clean through a series of monthly social themes of creating a more vibrant city that all [...]
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14 November 2011
By Doug Bandow, Contributor ~ FORBES ~ Another Veterans Day has passed. Tragically, Washington creates more veterans every day. American politicians are constantly going to war for no good reason. Special Forces to Uganda. What vital U.S. interest is threatened there? Bombing Libya. Why should Washington bail out the Europeans yet again? Nation-building in Afghanistan. [...]
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14 November 2011
Posted by Richard M Kavuma, The Guardian ~ In an age of technological marvels, it may not be earth-stopping news that young engineers at Uganda’s Makerere University have made an electric car. But, as a university professor reminded me, this is big news for Uganda. Last week, the College of Engineering Design, Art and Technology at Makerere conducted [...]
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14 November 2011
(AP) KINSHASA, Congo – A national park in Congo best known for its endangered mountain gorillas is now inviting tourists to go on overnight treks to see a volcano spurting fountains of lava nearly 1,000 feet into the air. Mount Nyamulagira began erupting on Nov. 6 and could continue to do so for days, or [...]
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14 November 2011
By Marlowe Hood | AFP ~ Southern Europe will be gripped by fierce heatwaves, drought in North Africa will be more common, and small island states face ruinous storm surges from rising seas, according to a report by UN climate scientists. The assessment is the most comprehensive probe yet by the 194-nation Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) into the impact of [...]
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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, [...]
12 November 2011
By Elias Biryabarema | Reuters ~ KAMPALA (Reuters) – The Ugandan shilling edged higher against the dollar on Friday as tight shilling liquidity forced banks to unwind dollar positions to ensure their local currency holdings. Some traders forecast the shilling would strengthen further next week, lifted by dollar inflows from offshore investors purchasing government paper [...]
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09 November 2011
By Ronnie Mayanja, UNAA Times, Dispatch from Kampala ~ On Saturday November 4th, Kampala city came to a complete stand still when American based business mogul and entrepreneur Mr. Flex Kabuye Kawooya introduced his fiancee Princess Mable Nakamaanya in a colorful ceremony held at Najjanankumbi in Kampala. Many of Kampala’s socialites that included General Katumba [...]
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09 November 2011
By Uncle Isaac Sebakijje ~ Dear friends, family, co-workers, We want to express our deepest gratitude to all of you who made this sad occasion a little more bearable. Your generous gifts of time, money, food, flowers and emotional support at our time of great need was immensely appreciated. We also appreciate outpouring messages of condolences [...]
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06 November 2011
Analysis by Jesse Emspak, DISCOVERY NEWS ~ Electric vehicle manufacturing isn’t limited to big countries with huge auto industries. At Makerere University in Uganda, a group of engineering students and their professors showed they can do it too (and with fewer resources). It’s called the Kiira EV, and it isn’t fast or flashy, although it has the [...]
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06 November 2011
Washington Post ~ PARIS — Once among the world’s most feared masterminds of terror, the man known as Carlos the Jackal is now a graying convict who has been behind bars for 17 years. On Monday, he goes on trial for four deadly attacks that occurred nearly three decades ago, and the verdict could determine [...]
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06 November 2011
By Ed Stoddard | CAPE TOWN (Reuters) – Over 10,000 sq km with “high petroleum potential” has been relinquished in Uganda and will soon be available for relicencing along with unlicenced areas in acompetitive bidding process, an Africa oil conference heard on Friday. The discovery of commercially viable oil reserves in land-locked Uganda which are estimated to amount to 2.5 billion [...]
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06 November 2011
By Jocelyn Edwards, Special to the Star ~ Lushi Rashid throws her arm up in the air, stretches out on the yellow sheets and ululates in pain. “Jiijiijiiijiii,” she cries as the contractions grow stronger, emitting the high-pitched trilling noise that South Sudanese women make to show emotion. Sitting on a stool at Rashid’s bedside, midwife [...]
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06 November 2011
By Dominique Debucquoy-Dodley, New York (CNN) – Kenya’s Geoffrey Mutai set a course record in the ING New York Marathon on Sunday, cutting nearly three minutes from a previous best time that had stood for a decade. Mutai finished in 2 hours, 5 minutes and 6 seconds, according to the official website for the race, breaking [...]
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03 November 2011
Focus on East Africa, in conjunction with its strategic partners, is organising the East Africa Real Estate Investment-2011 (the conference). The conference will be held on 22 – 23 November 2011 in Kampala, Uganda and is supported by the Uganda Government, AREA-Uganda, Uganda Investment Authority among others. The conference, which is supported by the Uganda [...]
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03 November 2011
U.S Department of State ~ Green Card Lottery 2013 ~ Important Notice: DV 2013 Program - The online registration period for the 2013 Diversity Visa Program (DV-2013) began on Tuesday, October 4, 2011, at noon, Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) (GMT-4), and will conclude on Saturday, November 5, 2011, at noon, Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) (GMT-4). See the Diversity [...]
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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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30 October 2011
US UPDATE: Funeral Service & Fundraising for Kisembo “Semo” Katso” Katongole will be this SATURDAY NOVEMBER 5TH at St. Peter’s Church Of Uganda, 750 Main St., Waltham, MA. at 2pm. Dear friends, It is amazing to see how well loved Semo was, It is also great to see how everyone has pitched in to get [...]
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30 October 2011
(CNN) – A South Sudan rebel group warned the United Nations and residents to leave a remote border state within three days or risk coming under fire as it launches an attack on the local government. The South Sudan Liberation Army said Saturday it was headed to Warrap state after an earlier attack on Mayom town [...]
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29 October 2011
“Straight Talk Africa” on October 26, 2011 – VOA’s “Straight Talk Africa” guest, Betty Makoni of Girl Child Network Worldwide joined host Shaka Ssali from the London studios to discus how being rape at the age of six in Zimbabwe is why she works closely with girls and children in rural areas, including victims of [...]
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29 October 2011
“Straight Talk Africa” on October 26, 2011 – VOA’s “Straight Talk Africa” studio guest, Derreck Kayongo, Social Entrepreneur of the Global Soap Project discuss how his initiative to recover and recycle soap from American hotel and distribute in African communities has landed recognition from an American cable news networks.
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29 October 2011
“Straight Talk Africa” on October 26, 2011 – VOA’s “Straight Talk Africa” studio guest, Ronnie Mayanja, Editor of UNAA Times Online Newspaper discusses how he uses his blog newspaper to connect with other Ugandans throughout the diaspora to highlight special accomplishment of individuals through public service.
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29 October 2011
By Ronnie Mayanja ~ A couple of weeks ago Ugandans commemorated their 49th independence anniversary in the US, various community local chapters celebrated this independence day with festivities and meetings of their own. In Boston a number of events were held to mark this memorable day. First came the independence day dance organised by Tuli Mukintu and DJ [...]
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