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Rough election climate emerges in Uganda
This month's general elections in Uganda, widely expected to be won by President Yoweri Museveni, are held in a rough climate, with the opposition crying fraud and the army getting ...
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Ugandan gays mourn activists killing
David Kato, a Ugandan activist fighting for sexual minorities' rights, was killed in his home by a mob today. Shocked Ugandan gay activists promise to keep on "the struggle for justice and ...
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Uganda Why Kenya Lags Behind Tanzania Rwanda and Uganda in Growth - World Bank Report
KENYA has lagged behind its peers in the East African Community in terms of economic growth for the last ten years, the World Bank says. In fact, according to the bank's latest Kenya Economic Update, the country's economic growth rate has not matched, even once, Africa's growth rate in the the past decade, though the two were close in most years. Kenya's annual growth rate ...
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Uganda opposition wins Kampala mayor vote
In the first-ever significant opposition election victory, Erias Lukwago was declared winner of the polls in Kampala, the capital of Uganda. But the powers of the mayor's office have been ...
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Donors Pledge New Support for Lake Victoria
Regional and International Development Partners have pledged new support to fund the implementation of projects and programmes for the Lake Victoria Basin. The commitment was made during the two-day 3rd Lake Victoria Basin Donors' Conference, hosted by the Lake Victoria Basin Commission (LVBC) in Entebbe, Uganda. The conference was meant to strengthen relationships and solidify plans with ...
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Huge Uganda election funding questioned
A 3 February press statement by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) stated that a team from the Fund would visit Uganda in June 2011 to examine an economy that has experienced skyrocketing prices and hard currency shortage in a dash for Mr Museveni to win elections. Several government and donor sources suggest President Museveni and his ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) party may have ...
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Uganda Presidents campaign still soft-handed
Foreign election observers may hold the Ugandan President back from the typical intimidation during elections, many Ugandans hold. The European Union (EU) is among those having an observer mission in the country. According to Graham Elson, deputy European election observer mission leader for the Ugandan polls, the EU is spending euro 4 million on it mission. Ugandans on 18 February are to choose ...
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Peres lauded in star-studded ceremony
Barbra Streisand hugging Israeli President Shimon Peres after performing at his 90th birthday celebration in Jerusalem, June 18, 2013. (Kobi Gideon/GPO/FLASH90) World leaders praised and serenaded Israeli President Shimon Peres in honor of his upcoming 90th birthday. The prime-time birthday celebration Tuesday night marked the start of the fifth annual Israeli Presidential Conference. Two of ...
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Sports Uganda wins Cecafa tourney opener
Uganda n taxmen still managed to win their opening match even after travelling without head coach Paul Nkata and striker Frank Kalanda. The two did not travel with the team after failing to process their passports on time but are expected to join the rest of the squad later this week. URA were brought into the tournament to replace Kenyan champions Tusker who pulled out citing insecurity ...
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Under Nutrition Costs Government 1.8 Trillion Annually
An estimated 1.8 trillion Ugandan shillings is lost annually as a result of under nutrition according to the findings of a ground breaking study on the cost of hunger launched yesterday at Imperial Royale Hotel. The study was conducted by the government of Uganda with the support of the African Union Commission including New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD), United Nations ...
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Mulago Gets New Oxygen Concentrator Machine
More children in need of oxygen are likely to stand a better chance to live after Mwana Mugimu, (Nutrition unit) at Mulago hospital got an oxygen concentrator machine worth sh5m. An oxygen concentrator machine is a devise which provides oxygen therapy to a patient at minimally to substantially higher concentrations available in ambient air. The machine was donated by NSSF will be used at the ...
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East African Affairs Ministers Meet in Arusha
East African Affairs ministers are meeting in Arusha, Tanzania the 18th Sectoral council of ministers. The 18-21 June meeting will be held through the sessions of senior officials; the co-ordination committee (Permanent Secretaries); and the ministerial session. The four-day meeting is expected to critically consider a report on the implementation of previous decision of the sectoral council ...
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Museveni Calls for Aggressive Fight Against Animal Diseases
President Yoweri Museveni has urged authorities to sensitize the public on the use of animal chemicals saying that some chemicals become resistant after using them for a long time but the public do not know. The President also called for an aggressive campaign against cattle diseases including various forms of tick borne diseases, worms and Tsetse flies. Museveni who is a large scale cattle ...
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Baby Seeks SH15 Million for Heart Surgery
The life of a two-year old boy in Kampala hangs in balance after he was diagnosed with Down syndrome and Ventricular Septal Defect (VSD). Abdu Kigozi was diagnosed with the sicknesses at nine months by the Uganda Heart Institute, Mulago national referral hospital in Kampala. According to Jadrine Tuhirirwe, Kigozi's mother, at the time he was diagnosed with the conditions, he was weak, ...
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Health Budget Increased But..
The status of a country's health sector is undoubtedly one of the core yardsticks upon which its overall growth and development is judged. However, Uganda's budgetary allocation towards the health sector has been fluctuating, at least in the past four financial years. Whereas health activists have, for long, been advocating for a continuous increase in the health sector budget, it has ...
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Eight Inmates Escape From Mityana Prison
The police in Mubende are hunting for eight prisoners, who escaped from Muyinayina prison. Mubende district police commander, Enock Abaine, said they had managed to re-arrest five prisoners, who had also escaped from the prison on Saturday. Abaine said that the incident occurred when the prison officials were taking 70 prisoners to fetch water from a well, on the prison farm. The well is about ...
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Police Detain Eleven Lango College Students Over Strike
The Police have arrested 11 students in connection with the Sunday strike at Lango College in Lira district. By press time, the students were still being held at Lira Central Police Station. The students are said to have thrown stones onto the roofs of classrooms and dormitories, while chanting. "We need good hygiene. Give us a good toilet!" The one-hour strike, which was quelled by ...
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Uganda Court to Hear Lukwago Petition On Tribunal Today
Justice Vincent Zehurikize of the High Court in Kampala is today expected to hear a petition filed by Kampala Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago seeking to block the tribunal instituted to review a petition by city councillors calling for his sacking. Lukwago filed the petition on Monday through his law firm. The tribunal is scheduled to start seating tomorrow at Metropole Hotel in the upscale city ...
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Uganda Uganda South African Army Chiefs Discuss Security
Visiting South African Special Forces Commander, Brigade General Rudzani Maphwanya has held talks with the Chief of Defense Forces, General Edward Katumba Wamala. The meeting took place at the ministry of defense headquarters, at Mbuya in Kampala. Brigadier General Muhoozi Kainerugaba, the Commander Special Forces Command also attended. According to Capt. Edison Kwesiga, the spokesperson, ...
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Uganda MP Dragged to Court Over SH40 Million Bad Debt
The Kalungu woman MP, Florence Kintu who was recently dragged to court for defaulting payment of sh40m debt has admitted to borrowing sh25m and asked court's indulgence on the interest rate. Through her lawyer, Silas Mugabi, the MP told Nakawa Chief Magistrates Court that she borrowed sh25m but failed to repay because she had financial problems, and yet the interest rate was inflated by ...
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Ugandan shilling firms tax payments set to provide boost
By Elias Biryabarema KAMPALA | Wed Jun 19, 2013 9:29am EDT KAMPALA Jun 19 (Reuters) - - The Ugandan shilling firmed slightly on Wednesday, buoyed by weak appetite for the dollar caused by businesses holding back their local currency holdings for full-year tax payments due at the end of June. At 1105 GMT commercial banks quoted the currency of east Africa's third-largest economy at ...
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Gov’t open to visas on arrival for AU citizens
Government will "explore ways to make it possible" for visas to be issued on arrival to citizens from African countries to boost aviation, intra-regional trade and tourism, Deputy Minister of Transport Joyce Bawa Mogtari has said. "...It is something we will carry on board and explore ways of making it a possibility. That is the whole purpose of the AU and ECOWAS, and I hope ...
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Uganda churches make big business of aid
In Uganda, church communities may get access to major development aid funds. A new study shows that many church leaders abuse these funds and start neglecting religious ...
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Cancer’s Lonely Soldier -- Dr. Jackson Orem Director of the Uganda Cancer Institute
Cancer’s New Battleground - the Developing World . Jackson Orem is a busy man. He directs the Uganda Cancer Institute – the only dedicated cancer treatment facility in a country of 33 million people. Yet he still finds time to see patients, like Musa Settimba. "Good to see you," Orem says as he enters a small exam room furnished with little more than a chair and table. ...
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The ‘Kill the Gays’ Bill Why It Matters Outside Uganda
The Speaker in Uganda’s parliament is promising a gift like no other for Christmas to her countrymen.Rebecca Kadaga has vowed to resuscitate the "kill the gays" bill, that was put into cold storage in 2009 after it spurred international outrage.At a time when the US Supreme Court is mulling same-sex marriage and the court in India has just heard arguments about decriminalising ...
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