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/ 22 October 2009
Africa’s technocrats and politicians are converging in Kampala to tackle one of the continent’s most pressing problems: refugees.
The two-year peace process in Uganda aimed at ending a rebellion by the notorious Lord’s Resistance Army lies in tatters as the rebels rearm.
Conservationists in Uganda have asked the government to intervene to prevent further killing of animals by herdsmen living in the country’s second-largest game park. The Basongora cattle herders are believed to have poisoned 80% of hyenas in the area and at least 15 lions.
Bush-meat trade is threatening a possible depletion of Africa’s great apes, the world’s leading chimpanzee and gorilla conservationist, Jane Goodall, warned on Thursday. She said corruption and commercial interests involving logging companies are making conservation efforts futile.
Uganda’s main opposition leader, Kizza Besigye, was released on bail and greeted about 12 000 cheering supporters outside the courthouse where he is on trial on charges he says were fabricated to keep him out of next month’s presidential election.
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/ 16 November 2005
Police blocked roads leading to court on Wednesday as crowds gathered ahead of a bail hearing for a top opposition leader charged with treason. A day earlier, at least one person was shot dead in rioting by Kizza Besigye supporters protesting his prosecution on charges of treason as well as concealment of treason and rape.
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/ 21 October 2005
Thousands of government officials, diplomats, supporters and relatives gathered on Friday for the state funeral of Milton Obote, whose presidency was a brutal chapter in Uganda’s troubled history. The state funeral was held a day after current President Yoweri Museveni laid a wreath on the casket of his former foe.
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/ 11 October 2005
Milton Obote, Uganda’s first prime minister and two-time president known for his brutal repression that led to the deaths of 500 000 people, died on Monday at a South African hospital, officials said. The Ugandan People’s Congress said Obote (80) died on Monday afternoon after being hospitalised for several weeks.
Terecina Ayo remembers the night rebel fighters attacked, hacking to death her 12-year-old nephew and 13-year-old niece, abducting other villagers and torching thatched huts. The widow says she survived that night four years ago by running into the bush. But she and many other survivors in northern Uganda are nonetheless scarred.
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/ 28 October 2004
A cholera outbreak has killed two people and affected about 50 others in the largest camp for people who fled their homes to escape an 18-year insurgency in northern Uganda, the United Nations said on Thursday. UN investigations have shown that all household domestic water pots are contaminated with faeces.