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07 December 2009
United Nations, New York, 30 November 2009 – The United Nations is calling for $7.1 billion to provide urgent humanitarian aid to 48 million people in 25 countries worldwide in 2010. The 2010 Humanitarian Appeal is the biggest Appeal ever launched since the creation of the Consolidated Appeal Process (CAP) in 1991, according to the [...]
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07 December 2009
AfricaNews sports desk The 32 teams participating at next year’s FIFA World Cup finals discovered their fate this evening when the Final Draw for South Africa 2010 took place in Cape Town. While South Africans learned that the host nation’s Opening Match on 11 June would be played against Mexico at Soccer City, it was [...]
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06 December 2009
By Jeff Malachowski | SHREWSBURY | Oak Middle School students and teachers abandoned their desks, chairs and materials in an effort to raise money and awareness for schools in Uganda and also learned all they have to be grateful for. Armed with just a pencil and their assignments, seventh and eighth graders at the middle [...]
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06 December 2009
MOGADISHU, Somalia – The Somali government replaced its police and army chiefs Sunday ahead of a planned military offensive, the Somali information minister said. The reshuffle came as fresh clashes between insurgents and government forces in the ruined capital of Mogadishu killed six people, including a mother and two young children. Government spokesman Abdi Haji [...]
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06 December 2009
By MOHAMED OLAD HASSAN, AP Writer | BOSSASO, Somalia – A parcel of land here that sold for $12,000 two years ago now costs more than $20,000. The price of a nice pair of men’s shoes has gone up from $20 to $50. The reason: pirates. The influx of millions of dollars in ransoms has [...]
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06 December 2009
KHARTOUM (AFP) – Two Rwandan peacekeepers were killed in an attack on Saturday in Sudan’s war-torn region of Darfur where insecurity is rampant, in the second such deadly incident in as many days, a UN source said. “Rwandan soldiers were distributing water at the gate of a camp for the displaced in Shangil Tobaya when [...]
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03 December 2009
By MOHAMED OLAD HASSAN, AP Writer | MOGADISHU, Somalia – A male suicide bomber dressed as a woman attacked a university graduation ceremony Thursday, killing at least 15 people, including three Cabinet ministers and three journalists. The attack raised new questions about the ability of Somalia’s weak government to control even the small area of [...]
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02 December 2009
Thaksin’s new name : Takki Shinegra Runaway ex-PM Thaksin Shinawatra has used new name in his passports issued by some African countries, Thai Vice foreign minister Panich Vikitsreth said Wednesday. Thaksin’s name in passports issued by Nicaragua, Uganda and Montenegro has been changed to “Takki Shinegra,” he said. The Thai government has revoked Thaksin’s diplomatic [...]
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02 December 2009
STOCKTON – University of the Pacific’s Invisible Children Club will hold a fundraiser from 7 to 9 p.m. today at the Grace Covell Tiger Lounge to benefit children in Uganda. The club was founded last year to raise awareness about children in Uganda who are being abducted from their homes and forced to join rebel [...]
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02 December 2009
IRIN | As donors tighten their belts in the global recession, health experts in Uganda worry that the national antiretroviral (ARV) programme, which is almost entirely dependent on foreign aid, will be unable to keep providing the life-prolonging drugs. Uganda is only able to provide ARVs to 57 percent of the 240,000 people who require [...]
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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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02 December 2009
Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Congo, Sudan. In a bleak partnership, civil war and natural resources, like oil or diamonds, go together in Africa. As Uganda’s oil discoveries at last offer an unimagined vision of future prosperity, Ugandans should be thinking hard about what has gone wrong in the past. It was the economist Paul Collier who [...]
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02 December 2009
By Richard M Kavuma | Uganda is on course to become one of the top 50 oil producers in the world. But will the proceeds change the lives of the country’s poorest? | Fishermen near an oil rig on the edge of Lake Albert in Uganda. Photograph: Xan Rice When Martin Eceku, 62, from Katine, [...]
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01 December 2009
We at the Multiprofessional Consultants LLC (MPC) do welcome you our patron to this 2009 Annual Community Workshop. The MPC management three years ago decided to conduct an appreciation annual event as a way of giving back and a thanking our patrons who have been so loyal in allowing us to continuously serve you with [...]
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01 December 2009
On Sunday 29th November a group of patrons called the Multi-Professional Consultants held a Business Seminar at the French Club in Waltham, Massachusetts as way to thank their Ugandan Community for supporting their business. Headed by Dr. Micheal Kisembo the group shared some insightful information on Tax, Immigration, Real Estate and Resume Writing. UNAA Times [...]
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01 December 2009
Tuli Mu Kintu Productions held their Thanksgiving Bash on Saturday November 28 at Mount Auburn Street in Watertown, Massachusetts. The event Ugandans, many of who had travelled from out of State to celebrate America’s Thanksgiving holiday. DJ’s Benarzo and Paddy were on hand to spin the wheels of steel while new comers to the Boston’s [...]
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01 December 2009
Mr. Sam Kiwanuka a Real Estate Consultant based in Boston was among the guest speakers at the Multi Professional Consultant’s Seminar held in Waltham on Sunday November 29th 2009. In his remarks Mr. Kiwanuka encouraged members of the Ugandan community who bought homes in the last five years and are facing financial problems not to [...]
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01 December 2009
Dear Readers, Welcome to our anniversary issue of UNAA Times. How the year has flown by so quickly. It was only yesterday that I recall discussing this vision for an online edition with my Old Budonian colleague and now business partner Mr.Solomon Jagwe. And look at how far we have come. In this regard I [...]
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27 November 2009
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27 November 2009
By Hector Kanyike | The UNAA president Moses,R.Wilson addressed a press conference at the media centre in kampala and discussed among other issues the promotion of UNAA activities and the upcoming 2010 UNAA convention in Washington DC. Present at the Press Conference were Hotel Africana Managing Director Mr. BMK Kibirige, UNAA envoy in Uganda Kizza [...]
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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24 November 2009
Evelyn Matsamura Kiapi 24 November 2009 Kampala — Seated at a u-shaped table is an assembly of middle-aged men and women clad in business suits, faces stern and expressionless. Refreshments – bottled water, sodas and giant flasks of tea – clutter the long table, competing for space with piles of documents. The rattling of china [...]
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23 November 2009
Promoter Eddie Bazira and Baltic Pro Box Promotions, in association with Real Deal Events LLC, SES Boxing, Fight Production and Risum Boxing, are proud to announce that contracts has been signed for legendary former four-time heavyweight champion of the world Evander “The Real Deal” Holyfield to challenge Francois Botha for the South Africans World Boxing [...]
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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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23 November 2009
New report provides detailed analysis of the Construction market. Uganda’s infrastructure is getting a much-needed boost, with a large number of projects in the transport and utilities sectors under way and in the pipeline. As such, in BMI’s Q409 Uganda Infrastructure Report, we are forecasting the construction industry to grow by 4.41% in 2009 to [...]
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23 November 2009
UNAA Times Online and Agencies | Boxing legend and four time heavy weight Champion of the world Evander Holyfield is slated to fight Francious Botha in Kampala on January 16th 2009. UNAA Times News can exclusively reveal that Holyfield who was supposed to fight in South Korea on November 8th had his fight cancelled because [...]
23 November 2009
By Matthew Campbell | Bloomberg | Heritage Oil Plc will sell its fields in Uganda to Eni SpA of Italy for more than $1.5 billion, the London-based Sunday Times said, without saying where it got the information from. Heritage will pay a special dividend of between 90 pence and 100 pence per share as part [...]
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21 November 2009
Leaders from five East African nations have signed a common market treaty. The presidents of Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Uganda and Burundi have agreed to the free movement of people and goods across the region. It is hoped that the deal will lead to greater economic clout for the region. The common market is due to [...]
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21 November 2009
The number of people in Africa has passed the one billion mark, the UN Population Fund says in a report. UNPF’s Executive Director Thoraya Obeid told the BBC that the annual figures showed the continent’s population had doubled in the last 27 years. “Africa countries are all growing fast… because there is large number of [...]
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20 November 2009
Algeria booked a first trip to the World Cup in 24 years by beating Egypt 1-0 in a tense play-off in Sudan. Centre-back Antar Yahia settled the contest with a stunning first-half volley at an angle eight yards out from Karim Ziani’s punt into the box. Rookie goalkeeper Fawzi Chaouchi was the night’s other hero [...]
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19 November 2009
KAMPALA, Nov 19 (IPS) – The growth of cellphone use, particularly in the developing world, is providing health experts with a new channel of communication to provide family planning information. “The number of mobile subscribers is increasing at a dramatic rate with the number of global cellphone subscribers in 2006 being estimated at 2.5 billion [...]
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18 November 2009
Migrant workers have sent less money home during the economic crisis, but new data indicate remittances overall will decline less than expected in 2009, thanks mainly to a remittances “boom“ in South Asia and strong flows to East Asia and the Pacific. New data indicate global remittances will fall to $317 billion in 2009, down [...]
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17 November 2009
Harare — A Harare magistrate yesterday threw out the application for refusal of remand by MDC-T transport manager, Pascal Gwezere, who is facing allegations of stealing 20 AK-47 rifles and a shotgun from Pomona Army Barracks. Gwezere was, however, removed from remand on charges of undergoing military training in Uganda. Dismissing the first application, magistrate [...]
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17 November 2009
Corruption remains deep rooted in countries in Sub Saharan Africa, results of the corruption perception index for the year have shown. South Africa has been ranked 55th most corrupt country out of 180 countries surveyed by Transparency International with a scored of 4.7 out of ten on the index. New Zealand with a score of [...]
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17 November 2009
Police in Germany have arrested two Rwandan militia leaders on suspicion of crimes committed in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, BBC has reported. Ignace Murwanashyaka, the leader of the FDLR rebel group, and his aide Straton Musoni were held on suspicion of crimes against humanity and war crimes. FDLR leaders fled to [...]
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16 November 2009
The Ruias’ Essar Group is to acquire a 51 per cent stake in the telecom operations of the Dhabi Group, an investment company led by Abu Dhabi’s royal family, in Uganda and Congo for around $150 million (Rs 692 crore). In Dhabi’s Warid Telecom Uganda and Warid Telecom Congo, Essar Telecom will invest for the [...]
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