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Tullow halts work on two oil blocks in Mid-Western Uganda
11 November 2010
By Tabu Butagira & Flavia Lanyero | Tullow Oil Uganda has stopped operations at two of three oil blocks in mid-western Uganda following an unresolved capital gains tax dispute with government. The firm’s General Manager, Mr Brian Glover, told this paper last night that they, however, are continuing with drilling on Block 2, but not blocks [...]
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Uganda gets two trillion from kyeyo
11 November 2010
By Sylvia Juuko | MONEY remitted by Ugandans living abroad is expected to reach $773m (sh1.7 trillion) this year, up from $694m (sh1.56 trillion) the previous year, a World Bank report has said. The World Bank publication titled “Migration and Remittances Factbook 2011”, which tracks documented private transfers of funds and migratory patterns around the [...]
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LRA Victims Appeal to Obama | Arrest War Crimes Perpetrators
11 November 2010
Washington, DC — Victims of atrocities by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) have sent emotional personal pleas to US President Barack Obama, calling for urgent action to end attacks by the rebel group, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch conducted five research missions to northern Democratic Republic of Congo and the Central African [...]
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Uganda: Kabaka Calls for Review of Entire Education System
10 November 2010
Kampala — Kabaka Ronald Muwenda Mutebi has called for immediate review of the Ugandan education curriculum to curb the increasing unemployment problem in the country. He was speaking at a function to pass out 1,200 graduands at Buganda Royal Institute on Friday. // The Kabaka of Buganda said Uganda has lost a lot of time [...]
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VP told to defend himself on CHOGM
10 November 2010
By Joyce Namutebi | THE Prime Minister, Prof. Apolo Nsibambi, yesterday directed that the Vice-President, Prof. Gilbert Bukenya, must appear in Parliament in person to defend himself against reports of mismanaging CHOGM funds. “His Excellency, the Vice-President, like any other, should be around to answer questions,” said Nsibambi. This was after the State Minister in [...]
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Uganda: More Journalists Arrested in Alleged Extortion
10 November 2010
The parliamentary police are holding two Ugandan journalists, including a Daily Monitor scribe, over allegations that they tried to extort Shs40 million from Dr William T. Muhairwe, the managing director of National Water and Sewerage Corporation (NWSC). “They used our committee name and said we would treat the MD ( Dr Muhairwe) very well when [...]
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Wife of terrorism convict pleads guilty; will have to leave U.S.
10 November 2010
The Ugandan wife of an American-born man who pleaded guilty to providing material support to terrorists entered her own guilty plea on Monday. Proscovia Kampire Nzabanita, dressed head-to-toe in conservative Muslim dress with her face covered, pleaded guilty to making a false statement when questioned by a federal investigator about her husband, Zachary Chesser. Chesser, [...]
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Bukedea District boss accuses NRM of abandoning ideologies
07 November 2010
The Bukedea District chairperson, the Rev. Sam Ebukalin, has criticised the NRM for allegedly abandoning the leadership ideals it has been promoting. He said the NRM party, which fought Obote II government for alleged vote rigging, has failed to emulate what its leadership stood for when it protested the outcome of the elections in 1981. [...]
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Uganda: Corruption Body Advises Against Bribery
07 November 2010
ByRaymond Baguma | Kampala — THE international corruption watchdog, Transparency International, wants Ugandan voters to desist from receiving bribes from politicians seeking for votes in the ongoing election period. Martin Okumu, the board chairman of Transparency International Uganda chapter, told journalists on Tuesday that it was good that all presidential candidates have promised to address [...]
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Ugandan Parliamentary Candidate Wanted by UK Police.
07 November 2010
A UK resident who recently returned to his native Uganda, and was elected as the ruling (NRM) party’s parliamentary candidate of Moroto District in Northern Uganda is wanted by the police over alleged fraud. PRLog (Press Release) ? Oct 24, 2010 ? LONDON – A UK resident who recently returned to his native Uganda, and [...]
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Parliament grills minister over Chogm
05 November 2010
By Joyce Namutebi and Catherine Bekunda AGRICULTURE minister Hope Mwesigye yesterday had a tough time defending herself in Parliament against reports of mismanaging CHOGM funds and abuse of office. At the start of the debate on the report of the public accounts committee (PAC), Mwesigye was directed to explain her role in the mess. She [...]
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Chaos mars city mayoral contest
05 November 2010
It is perhaps not surprising that the battle to take over a city as messy as Kampala would be marred in chaos, conflict and controversy. The nominations for mayoral candidates yesterday began with their fair share of drama—with the opposition coalition disowning MP Erias Lukwago while court blocked NRM’s Peter Sematimba. ‘Defiant’ Lukwago Mr Lukwago, [...]
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Uganda: Nation to Train 1,000 Somali Soldiers
03 November 2010
By Risdel Kasasira | Kampala — At least 1,000 Somalis will arrive in Uganda for a nine-month basic military training before they can be deployed as soldiers by the Transitional Federal Government in Somalia. The recruits will be trained jointly by the European Union and the UPDF at Bihanga Military Training School, in Ibanda District [...]
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Kampala boundaries to be retained
03 November 2010
By Catherine Bekunda | THE Government has agreed to retain the boundaries of Kampala City and have a directly elected mayor. The Government had under the Kampala City Bill, proposed that a metropolitan area including, the Entebbe-Kampala corridor, Makindye-Ssebagabo sub-county, Kira town council in Wakiso district and part of Mukono be added to the current [...]
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Uganda: Tullow Silent Over Ura’s $283 M Agency Notice
03 November 2010
By Micheal Wakabi | Nairobi — The news came like a bolt of lightning out of the blue but more than a week later, Irish oil explorer Tullow is yet to make any comment on reports that it has agreed to pay Uganda $283 million in settlement of a tax dispute that has put at [...]
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Top UPC party bosses cross to NRM
02 November 2010
By Milton Olopot | TOP UPC stalwarts Hajji Badru Wegulo, Osinde Wangor and Henry Peter Mayega defected to the ruling party yesterday. The UPC historicals crossed at the launch of the NRM 2011 manifesto at Kampala Serena Hotel. Welcoming them, President Yoweri Museveni, the NRM head, said: “I introduce Hajji Badru Wegulo to you. This [...]
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Japan gives Sh230b for new Jinja bridge
02 November 2010
By Tadeo Bwambale | JAPAN has granted Uganda sh230b to build a new bridge on River Nile in Jinja. It is expected to serve as a major trade route connecting Uganda to the Kenyan port of Mombasa, Rwanda, Burundi, the DR Congo as well as Central Africa. It will replace the bridge at the Nalubaale [...]
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Kizza Besigye campaigns in Masaka
02 November 2010
FORUM for Democratic Change (FDC) leader Dr Kizza Besigye launched his campaign for the presidency in Masaka district with a bold message of hope. Besigye urging residents not to despair that change towards better governance was imminent. “Be strong and determined to choose a better destiny. If you take a firm decision to vote out [...]
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Letter from the Editor | Ronnie Mayanja | November 2010
31 October 2010
Dear Readers, welcome to November the second last month in the Calendar year 2010. It’s midterm elections here in the US. The republicans, democrats and the newly formed tea party movement are all pushing their agendas at the polls this November. One thing that is most certain to happen will be Speaker Nancy Pelosi losing [...]
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Trip to Uganda: A Sunday Accident, A mother’s Love, Safety without Car seats for Babies?
31 October 2010
By Solomon W. Jagwe | Trip to Uganda | Today I witnessed the power of a mother’s love for her baby. The experience left me with a knot in my throat and emotions churning up inside; anger, frustration and amazement. What do you do when placed in a situation where your car is side swiped [...]
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African Americans and US Foreign Policy Conference – Africa in Focus
30 October 2010
By Ronnie Mayanja | UNAA Times Online | Leaders within the African American academia converged in Boston at the Boston University Photonics center to participate in the African Americans and US Foreign policy conference, hosted by the Boston University African American studies program and the African Presidential Archives and Research Center. Among the keynote speakers [...]
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Candidates fight for Buganda vote
30 October 2010
By John Semakula | THE Buganda vote is hotter than ever before. All political parties have decided to launch and end their presidential election campaigns in the central region. It is the region with the biggest number of voters, and home to half the presidential candidates; Beti Olive Kamya of the Uganda Federal Alliance (UFA), [...]
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Polio vaccination campaign targeting 72M children in 15 African countries announced; Ugandan health authorities declare polio outbreak
30 October 2010
The WHO on Tuesday announced a mass polio immunization campaign in 15 African countries targeting a total of 72 million children, Agence France-Presse reports. “Polio has spread again in recent years with cases imported from some of the four endemic nations in Asia and Africa, mainly Nigeria, in a setback to global attempts to eradicate the crippling and [...]
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LRA’s Kony now in Darfur-Ugandan army
30 October 2010
* Uganda says Sudan aware of Kony’s presence in Darfur * Kony is wanted by the ICC By Elias Biryabarema | KAMPALA, Oct 29 (Reuters) – Joseph Kony, leader of Uganda’s Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) rebels, is hiding in Sudan’s Darfur region after fleeing a pursuit by the Uganda army in Central African Republic (CAR), [...]
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American Football: Giants place Kiwanuka on injured reserve with neck injury
29 October 2010
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — Defensive end Mathias Kiwanuka’s season is over, and there is a chance his career with the New York Giants could be at an end. The Giants have placed the five-year veteran on injured reserve on Thursday with a herniated cervical disk after waiting more than a month to see if rest [...]
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Congolese women raped on Congo-Angola border, U.N. officials say
27 October 2010
United Nations (CNN) — Thirty Congolese women on the border of Angola and Congo were held in a dungeonlike prison and systematically raped by uniformed men, according to U.N. officials. The Congolese women were part of a group of 150 people who had recently been expelled from Angola. The United Nations said the women reported [...]
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2011 Presidential nominations close
27 October 2010
UPC Presidential flag bearer Olara Otunnu sought and received clearance to run for the Presidency, from the Electoral Commission, an institution he has bitterly been opposed to since his return to active politics last year.
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Uganda’s Political Pulse | 8 Candidates to battle for Uganda’s Presidency
27 October 2010
From fifty six aspirants, the battle for Uganda’s top job will now be a race of seven men and one woman. Incumbent Yoweri Museveni is in the race for the fourth term and if he wins he will extend his stay at the helm to thirty years.
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Blood Sucking Jiggers Hit Uganda
27 October 2010
By Ruth Manuel-Logan | Jiggers can devastate a population of people, despite their tiny size. An infestation of jiggers, once considered a thing of the past, has emerged again and this time it is wreaking havoc on the nation of Uganda, killing 20 thus far and making 20,000 people sick. Formally known as the chigoe, [...]
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TRIP TO UGANDA | Ugandan Political Campaigns: Caught in the Middle
27 October 2010
By Solomon W. Jagwe | The political campaigns are in full swing in Uganda and Kampala city is experiencing its fair share of the ramped up get out the vote push. I headed into Kampala a few days ago to meet with a client only to be inundated with a sea of yellow and green [...]
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Governor Deval Patrick’s Town Hall Meet and his re-election bid
26 October 2010
By Ronnie Mayanja | www.unaatimes.com | This year the US will hold its mid term elections that many have described as a litmus text for The Obama’s Presidency. Some states will also elect new Governors while others will send new legislators to Washington. In Massachusetts these elections are particularly important given the role the state plays in [...]
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Ezra’s passport blacklisted worldwide
24 October 2010
By Raymond Baguma |MICHAEL Ezra’s diplomatic passport has been cancelled. This renders the embattled businessman unable to travel out of the country. According to sources, this action was initiated by the Ministry of Internal Affairs which wrote to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs demanding that Erza’s travel documents be revoked. “Ezra’s diplomatic passport has been [...]
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NRM, DP, FDC kick off 2011 campaigns
24 October 2010
By Moses Mulonde| THREE major political parties, the National Resistance Movement (NRM), the Democratic Party (DP), and the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) will tomorrow compete for attention in Kampala as each mobilises supporters to attend their inaugural rallies for the 2011 elections. Their presidential candidates, President Yoweri Museveni, Norbert Mao and Dr. Kizza Besigye [...]
How far can the telecom price war go?
24 October 2010
By David Mugabe| EXPERTS predict that the airtime price war will go on until some of the phone companies are sold off, collapse or merge with others. “The telecoms will have to merge, some will even collapse if they don’t take a long term strategy,” said Edgar Isingoma, KPMG partner for advisory services. Warid Telecom [...]
EC rejects Besigye nomination papers
22 October 2010
By milton Olopot |THE Electoral Commission has rejected nomination signatures from 62 districts presented by Kizza Besigye of the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC). A presidential aspirant must submit 100 signatures of supporters from each of at least 75 of the 112 districts. If Besigye fails to get the required signatures, he will not be [...]
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INSPIRATION: Uganda Bomb Blast Survivor | Ben Ojara | A Living Miracle
19 October 2010
By Solomon W. Jagwe | Meet Ben Ojara, Part 1 | It is not often that one stands face to face with a living miracle; I believe I did just that when I met Ben Ojara, a young Ugandan who survived the horrible tragedy that struck Uganda on July 11th, 2010. A terrorist plot that [...]
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