Nursing her infant on a dusty pavement outside her printing shop in war-weary Gulu, Mary Amito says she isn’t convinced the recent talk of peace for northern Uganda will mean the end of 20 years of war. ”It’s going to start all over again,” she said, casting her eyes at a pile of stagnant rubbish gathering in a pothole.
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/ 17 February 2004
Three years ago John Assimwe knew almost nothing about Africa’s insect life. Like most Ugandans, he was more preoccupied with the tall task of making a living despite the country’s crushing poverty and sparse employment opportunities.
After being unemployed for two years, he discovered that selling rare insects was a means of putting food on the table.
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/ 6 February 2004
Fierce controversy has erupted over the International Criminal Court (ICC) announcement of a possible probe into war crimes committed by rebels of Uganda’s Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) in the course of the country’s 18-year civil war.
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/ 10 December 2003
It wasn’t the president of Uganda’s most electrifying speech on HIV/Aids. Bits of it were confused; others, platitudinous. But in the midst of his tired ramblings in honour of World Aids Day, President Yoweri Museveni managed to say something that infuriated half his audience and delighted the other half.
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/ 2 December 2003
A group of South African rafters is preparing for the first ever trip to navigate the length of the world’s longest river from source to sea, 142 years after British explorer John Speke identified the source of the Nile. They are attempting to negotiate a formidable 6 690km stretch of water.
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/ 21 November 2003
Uganda’s Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) rebels on Tuesday bludgeoned to death nine children they had earlier abducted as well as three others they found in a village in northern Uganda, army sources said. The attacks follow a week of intense LRA operations in the area in which up to 100 civilians have been reported to have been massacred.
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/ 31 October 2003
After 14 years in exile since the fall of his father’s regime, Taban Amin — the eldest son of Uganda’s infamous former dictator Idi Amin — returned home on Monday to a remarkably warm reception from the Ugandan government. For years Taban Amin had been living in Kinshasa.
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/ 10 October 2003
A new militia in eastern Uganda’s Teso region — recently the target of civilian attacks by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) — is having more success fighting the insurgents than the country’s conventional armed forces have had in the past 17 years. The so-called ”Arrow Boys” have apparently restored a semblance of order.
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/ 12 September 2003
After two months of relative calm in Bunia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC) most war-torn town, the 1 500-strong French-led peacekeeping force called in to protect it in June completed its withdrawal last week, amid grave fears among local residents about their security.
Last week a huge consignment of six tonnes of ivory, believed to have been hunted in the DRC, was seized in Zambia. East Africa is fast becoming a major international hub for ivory trafficking, yet efforts to catch traffickers are being frustrated by poor regional cooperation.