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28 October 2011
www.ugandandiaspora.com ~ Part 1 of An interview of NASA’s first Black Flight Director, Ugandan National, Kwatsi Alibaruho ~ Join us as we celebrate Uganda’s Success Stories in the Diaspora. The first African-American to lead Mission Control is working shifts as a flight director for the International Space Station. Kwatsi Alibaruho completed more than 700 [...]
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28 October 2011
By Associated Press, Washington Post ~ NAIROBI, Kenya — While putting few U.S. troops at risk, the United States is playing a growing role in Africa’s military battles, using special forces advisers, drones and tens of millions of dollars in military aid to combat a growing and multifaceted security threat. Once again, the focus is [...]
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28 October 2011
KOTIDO, (IRIN) – Catherine Namoe straightens up from the back-breaking task of harvesting cow pea leaves to answer some questions. It is tough work, she says, and the men do not help much. Even if the rain does not come again to turn the plant’s yellow flowers into pea pods, the leaves can be dried [...]
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28 October 2011
KAMPALA, (IRIN) – The shortage of health workers in Uganda is a “crisis”, says the Minister of Health, and activists say expectant mothers are bearing the brunt of the country’s staffing deficiency. Just 56 percent of Uganda’s available health positions are filled. Parliament’s recent refusal to reallocate part of the country’s budget to hire more [...]
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25 October 2011
By MICHELE KELEMEN ~ Human rights groups don’t usually cheer military forays. But they have offered loud applause for the Obama administration’s decision to send 100 military advisers to several countries in Africa to help those nations fight one of the continent’s most notorious rebel groups, the Lord’s Resistance Army. The Lord’s Resistance Army, or [...]
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25 October 2011
By Alexis Okeowo | The New Yorker ~ When President Obama announced his plan a week and a half ago tosend a hundred United States troops to central Africa to aid in the search for Lord’s Resistance Army rebels, the American public was, predictably, a little confused, and Rush Limbaugh was, predictably, a little off his rocker. “Uganda” soon became a trending topic on Twitter, [...]
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25 October 2011
The White House, Office of the Press Secretary ~ For Immediate Release, October 25, 2011 Presidential Proclamation — African Growth and Opportunity Act BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION Section 506A(a) (1) of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended (the “1974 Act”) (19 U.S.C. 2466a(a)(1)), as added by section 111(a) of the [...]
25 October 2011
Dear Gwanga Mujje-DC members and friends, Following the announcement of the sadden death of our founding member and friend, James Kabonge (57), who passed away yesterday, October 24, 2011, his family wishes to inform you that there will be a gathering (okukuma olumbe) this Friday, October 28, 2011 at their home (21202 Sparrow Court, Germantown, MD. 20876). They will receive friends, mourners and sympathizers starting at 6:00 [...]
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25 October 2011
By Jim Mannion ~ US special forces will be deployed with front-line units as advisors to central African militaries hunting down the leaders of Uganda’s Lord’s Resistance Army, a senior US official said Tuesday. Alexander Vershbow, a top Pentagon official, assured lawmakers that the deployment would likely last no more than “months” and was limited to aiding regional [...]
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25 October 2011
Fellow Ugandans and Friends, Following the earlier announcements of the sadden death of our friend and founder member of Ggwanga Mujje-DC, James Kabonge (RIP), the family wishes to inform you of the arrangements and details for the wake-keeping (okukuma olumbe) and the funeral which will take place this Saturday, October 29, 2011in Germantown, Maryland. Please note the change of venue for the gathering. We [...]
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24 October 2011
Flying to Uganda this December ~ For those of you planning on travelling to Uganda to attend the Ugandan Diaspora Social Networking Event on December 29th, at the Kampala Serena Hotel, here are the CODES to use for a SPECIAL EVENT DISCOUNT. Call this Number and give them the codes. 1-800-445-2733 From 01DEC to 07DEC $1499.32 [...]
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24 October 2011
By JOSH KRON, NAIROBI, Kenya — While Libya’s former rebels and many Western nations welcomed the end of the country’s long and brutal dictatorship, many sub-Saharan Africans are mourning the death of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, celebrated as much for his largesse as for his willingness to stand up to the West. To them, his violent death [...]
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24 October 2011
By Jennifer Delgado, TribLocal reporter ~ A 26-year-old Chicago man will appear in Skokie court Oct. 28 after he attempted to rob a hotel with a loaded handgun and later stole cash from another hotel using the weapon, Des Plaines authorities said. Musanje James Ntulume, of the 5000 block of North Elston Avenue, allegedly pointed [...]
24 October 2011
Joseph Kony, leader of the rebel group the Lord?s Resistance Army that has been fighting a war against the Ugandan government for the past twenty years, makes a rare statement to the media during peace talks on August 1, 2006 on the Congo-Sudan border. Editor’s Note: Daniel R. DePetris is an MA Candidate at the Maxwell [...]
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24 October 2011
By Moni Basu, (CNN) – What does a 22-year-old see when she looks at herself in the mirror? Evelyn Apoko sees a face marred by war, one that is jarring to others. Even she can’t stand to look sometimes. Doctors reconstructed her jaw, removed scars and balanced her lips. In the coming days, she will get a [...]
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24 October 2011
By Paul Cruickshank, CNN Terrorism Analyst ~ The mysterious visitor stands in a patch of scrubland in Somalia, surrounded by Islamic militants wielding AK-47s. His face is covered by a white-and-red headscarf; he is slim and seems young. But there is something puzzling about him: His skin is fair, and when he speaks in an [...]
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24 October 2011
By Jack Maddox, (CNN) – Twelve people were injured when someone either placed or threw a grenade into a Nairobi night club early Monday morning, Kenyan police said. Police have not linked the attack to any particular group, but it comes a day after the U.S. Embassy in Kenya warned it had credible information of an [...]
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20 October 2011
By SUSANNA KIM | ABC News ~ Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi’s war chest might have been large enough at one point to support fighting against rebel forces, but how much Libya’s Transitional National Council can extract after Gadhafi’s reported death remains to be seen. Gadhafi and his family had an estimated $33 billion and $60 billion in unaccounted money around the [...]
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20 October 2011
By JOEL SIEGEL | ABC News ~ He was one of the world’s most ruthless heads of state. He also was one of the most outlandish. Rarely has the leader of such a small nation played such a large role on the international stage. Moammar Gadhafi, who had weathered assassination attempts, U.S. air strikes, and years [...]
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20 October 2011
By Mahmood Mamdani ~ Al Jazeera ~ ”Kampala ‘mute’ as Gaddafi falls,” is how the opposition paper summed up the mood of this capital the morning after.Whether they mourn or celebrate, an unmistakable sense of trauma marks the African response to the fall of Gaddafi. Both in the longevity of his rule and in his style [...]
20 October 2011
By JOSH KRON, New York Times ~ KAMPALA, Uganda — Sam Katende wipes his brow as a burst of steam from his frying pan blows into his face. This business used to be a lot easier, dishing out rolled eggs — or “Rolexes,” as the ubiquitous and beloved snack is known here — for about [...]
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16 October 2011
By David McKenzie, Nairobi (CNN) – Kenyan troops are pursuing suspected Islamic militants from Al-Shabaab across the border into Somalia, Kenyan government spokesman Alfred Mutua told CNN Sunday. The move marks a dramatic shift in security tactics for the east African powerhouse, which is evoking the United Nations charter allowing military action in self-defense against its largely [...]
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16 October 2011
By Chris Rogers, BBC News, Kampala ~ The villages and farming communities that surround Uganda’s capital, Kampala, are gripped by fear. Schoolchildren are closely watched by teachers and parents as they make their way home from school. In playgrounds and on the roadside are posters warning of the danger of abduction by witch doctors for the [...]
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16 October 2011
By Ashley Killough, Washington (CNN) – Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona on Sunday questioned the president’s recent order to send American troops to central Africa, saying the move could put the United States on a slippery slope. “I worry about, with the best of intentions, that we somehow get engaged in a commitment that we can’t [...]
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15 October 2011
By Ramond Baguma ~ Prince John Barigye of Ankore is dead. According to sources, Barigye, 70, died at 6:00pm at the Agha Khan Hospital in Nairobi, Kenya where he had been admitted. Details of the cause of his death were still scanty by press time, Friday night. But New Vision’s sister media house Radio West, broke the news of Barigye’s death [...]
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14 October 2011
Washington (CNN) — President Barack Obama is sending about 100 U.S. troops to Africa to help hunt down the leaders of the notoriously violent Lord’s Resistance Army in and around Uganda. “I have authorized a small number of combat-equipped U.S. forces to deploy to central Africa to provide assistance to regional forces that are working [...]
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14 October 2011
By MIKI MEEK, New York Times ~ Nick Brandt’s stark and soulful portraits are an intimate glimpse at a world under siege. A mournful ranger holds poached ivory tusks, an abandoned ostrich eggs sits on a stretch of parched earth and a small herd of elephants surrounds a skull. Mr. Brandt has been photographing the [...]
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14 October 2011
By Rev. Joseph W. Kamugisha, DALLAS ~ The Executive Director of the Kampala Capital City Authority, Mrs. Jeniffer Semakula Musisi, safely landed at the Dallas Fort worth Airport, where she was met by a sizeable group of people lead by Ms. Sylvia Karuga, one of the Chamber Board members from the Dallas East African Chamber [...]
10 October 2011
Mumbai, India ~ A 26-year-old African woman was arrested by Customs officials at the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport here for trying to smuggle out five kg heroin, worth Rs five crore in the international market, Nakazibwe Irene, a Uganda national, arrived here via a domestic flight from Delhi and was scheduled to board a flight [...]
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10 October 2011
BBC ~ Former Cape Verde President Pedro Verona Pires has been awarded this year’s $5m (£3.2m) Mo Ibrahim prize for good governance in Africa. The prize committee said Mr Pires, who stepped down in August, had helped make the archipelago off the West African coast a “model of democracy, stability and increased prosperity”. The prize [...]
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10 October 2011
Two postgraduate students from Queen’s University, Belfast, have completed the first phase of a pioneering trip to assist in the treatment of psychological distress among child soldiers in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Paul O’Callaghan and John McMullen spent the summer months in the heart of the vast African country providing psychological support and treatment [...]
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10 October 2011
By Joseph Ngugi in London, DAILY NATION ~ African countries which persecute gays will have their aid cut, International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell has said. Mr Michael was quoted by the Britain’s Mail on Sunday saying that already his country has cut aid to Malawi by £19million after two gay men were sentenced to 14 [...]
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10 October 2011
By Ijuka Agnes Barongo and Jeremy Green ~ KAMPALA, Uganda ~ Emmanuel, 17, from Masindi District, Uganda, sits contemplatively near a window, with an expression of quiet determination on his face. Bathed in the golden light spilling forth through the pane, his academic journey thus far has been anything but sunny. As he discussed the [...]
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08 October 2011
By Rosie Goldsmith, BBC ~ The young nation of South Sudan has chosen English as its official language but after decades of civil war, the widespread learning of English presents a big challenge for a country brought up speaking a form of Arabic. I knew there might be problems as soon as I arrived at [...]
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08 October 2011
Uganda host traditional rivals Kenya in one of the most eagerly-anticipated 2012 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers of the weekend Uganda coach Bobby Williamson has confirmed that David Obua will not take part in Saturday’s decisive Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against Kenya. The midfielder initially walked out of camp after learning he could not [...]
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08 October 2011
By Faith Karimi, CNN ~ Kenyans gathered in the nation’s capital Saturday for a state funeral honoring Nobel laureate Wangari Maathai, marking a final journey for the first African woman to win the peace prize. Maathai, 71, died last month after a battle with cancer. She was the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace [...]
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