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Sudan Watch (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Report from Sudan Tribune by Richard Ruati Friday 6 November 2009: Leading LRA rebel commander surrenders to Ugandan army November 5, 2009 (KAMPALA) — Lt Col Charles Arop, a leading Ugandan LRA rebels (the Army of the Lord’s Resistance), has decided to surrender himself to the Ugandan army. Arop is responsible for a bloodbath perpetrated on Christmas Day last year in Faradje in the DRC...
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
FIVE people died on the spot and 11 were injured when an army truck collided with a commuter taxi on the Gulu-Kampala highway yesterday morning.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
IN this year of wrongly organised (Miss Uganda), postponed (PAM Awards) or completely cancelled (The Ascot Goat races) events, it comes as a relief that even after a six months' delay, the annual Amakula Kampala International Film festival kicks off today at the National Theatre.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
SILVERBACKS left for Kampala this morning with ambitions of winning silverware at this year's Hima-Mak 10s tournament.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
A total of 76 Rwandan Students were yesterday awarded post graduate degrees, undergraduate degrees and diplomas in various disciplines at Kampala International University (KIU) in Uganda.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
MPs want Kampala City Council (KCC) to refund over sh3b it has been collecting from the traders through illegal trading licences.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Three people sustained severe injuries when the vehicle in which they were travelling in overturned on the Gulu-Kampala highway.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
KAMPALA City Council (KCC) on Tuesday auctioned 21 cattle belonging to Margaret Rwomushana, a city resident. The cattle were seized in an operation against stray animals.
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Human Rights Watch (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
(Kampala) - A proposed Ugandan law on HIV/AIDS promotes dangerous and discredited approaches to the AIDS epidemic and would violate human rights, a group of more than 50 Ugandan and international organizations and individuals said in a report released today. The HIV and AIDS Prevention and Control Bill could be taken up by Uganda's parliament shortly. read more
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SexGenderBody (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
By Irene Nabusoba ( New Vision) THE United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) have launched a joint programme to end female genital mutilation (FGM) by 2012. FGM involves partial or total removal of the external female genitalia commonly practiced as a cultural passage to womanhood by some ethnic groups in Uganda. The practice causes...
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
The African Union's Special summit on refugees, returnees and internally displaced persons that took place in Kampala on 22 October marked a historic attempt to address the huge challenge of forced displacement that continues to overwhelm the continent.
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New Vision (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
KAMPALA - Uganda intends to woo Chinese investment to boost the country's efforts in adding value to exports and to tackle energy and infrastructure handicaps, government officials have said.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Five passengers died this morning after the taxi they were travelling in collided with a UPDF army truck, near Koro Sub County headquarters along the Gulu - Kampala road.
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California Greening (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
It takes a lot to make a progressive hero out of Senator Lindsay Graham (R-SC) but between Oklahoma's Sen. Inhofe and the climate change blatherings of a couple of ex-junkies named Beck and Limbaugh, they have managed to to just that. But, they also had some help from our own Senator Boxer and Obama Administration, as I wrote before. The delay of Boxer and the Obama administration in dealing with climate...
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World Food Program (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
As African leaders gathered in Kampala mid last month to attend the African Union Special Summit on Refugees, Returnees and Internally Displace Persons, perhaps not so many of us were actually aware that elsewhere, in the UK, another conference was taking place to warn that the international law is inadequate to deal with millions of people forecast to become climate exiles in the face of escalating...
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